AP National News

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — There’s not much left of Hrakove. Its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull. The church is scarred by rockets and shells, but the golden dome above its blasted belfry still gleams in the fading autumn light. Only about 30 people

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom slowed slightly in August as a drop in gasoline and diesel fuel prices gave consumers the first glimmer of hope that Britain’s cost-of-living crisis may be beginning to ease. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the consumer price index rose

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A woman accompanied by activists and brandishing what she said was a toy pistol broke into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, taking $13,000 from her trapped savings. Sali Hafez told the local Al-Jadeed TV that she needed the money to fund her sister’s cancer treatment. She

By ELENA BECATOROS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday visited an area of northeastern Ukraine that was recently retaken from Russian forces, witnessing largescale devastation as prosecutors claimed that local residents had been tortured and killed during the half-year occupation. Russian forces left the war-scarred city

By MIKE CORDER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken amid somber pageantry on a horse-drawn gun carriage past crowds of mourners to the Houses of Parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state for four

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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says his government will ensure people are compensated for homes lost to the country’s worst-ever floods, which have killed 1,481 people since mid-June. Winter is just weeks away, and half a million people are currently living in camps after being forced form their homes

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan and Pakistani authorities are blaming each other for an overnight clash at the border that’s caused casualties on both sides. The Taliban in a statement Wednesday said Afghan authorities tried to stop Pakistani forces from building a checkpoint close to the border. The Taliban said the Pakistanis opened fire, causing casualties

By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds The Toyota bZ4X is the automaker’s first mass-market electric vehicle. Though it’s about the same size as a RAV4, the bZ4X SUV was designed from the ground up as an EV with help from development partner Subaru. The Volkswagen ID.4 is VW’s first electric SUV and is a strong EV contender

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Eyewitnesses say an armed woman and a dozen activists broke into a Beirut bank branch and took more than $13,000 from her trapped savings. Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up the savings of millions of people. Eyewitnesses

MADRID (AP) — Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodóvar says that he is withdrawing from his first English-language feature, “A Manual for Cleaning Women” produced by and starring Cate Blanchett. Almodóvar, 72, told entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood that he was unable to handle the commitment. “It has been a very painful decision for me,” Almodóvar told

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to cap the revenue of electricity producers that are making extraordinary profits because of the effects of the war in Ukraine and climate change. She said Wednesday that the proposal could raise $140 billion to help

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says it’s wrong to describe his late father as a dictator and that his brutal martial law rule in the 1970s was not meant to prolong his grip on power. His comments were immediately rejected by human rights activists. The namesake

NEW DELHI (AP) — A minibus has tumbled into a deep gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing 11 people and injuring 29 others. The Press Trust of India news agency quoted officials as saying that at least 36 people were on board the bus when the accident took place Wednesday near Sawjian. They say rescue efforts

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to London’s medieval Westminster Hall from Wednesday to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, whose coffin will lie in state for four days until her funeral on Monday. People who want to view the queen’s coffin can

By MARIA CHENG and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — With monkeypox cases subsiding in Europe and parts of North America, many scientists say now is the time to prioritize stopping the virus in Africa. In July, the U.N. health agency designated monkeypox as a global emergency and appealed to the world to

LONDON (AP) — One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld a huge fine issued to Google by the bloc’s antitrust enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system. The European Court of Justice’s General Court on Wednesday mostly confirmed a European Commission decision to slap Google with a fine of more

By MIKE CORDER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken amid somber pageantry on a horse-drawn gun carriage past crowds of mourners to the Houses of Parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state for four