Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has claimed in a speech that the European Union seeks to topple his government and install a puppet regime. It’s an escalation of open hostility toward the bloc by the member considered Russia’s closest ally. Orbán was marking Hungary’s national holiday commemorating a 1956
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli jets struck multiple buildings in Lebanon’s southern coastal city of Tyre on Wednesday, sending up large clouds of black smoke, while Hezbollah confirmed that a top official widely expected to be the militant group’s next leader had been killed in an Israeli strike. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Officials in Hong Kong say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, uninhabited island that’s part of a geopark. Experts have initially confirmed the fossils were part of a large dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, about 145 million to 66 million
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish radio station has stirred up controversy after dismissing its journalists and relaunching this week with AI-generated “presenters.” Weeks after letting its journalists go, OFF Radio Krakow announced this week that it was relaunching with what it called the first experiment in Poland. The station said its three
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Officials say German submarine-hunting planes will patrol the North Atlantic from a base in Scotland under a new Britain-Germany defense pact in response to the growing threat from Russia. Defense ministers from Britain and Germany will sign the agreement in London on Wednesday. They call it the first such defense pact between
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — U.S. and Cypriot officials have launched a strategic dialogue they said would bolster security and stability in a crisis-wracked region through initiatives including counterterrorism training of personnel from Middle Eastern countries. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien said a U.S.-funded center has been training personnel
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The tiny Mideast nation of Kuwait has banned the release of the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” which features the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is set in part in the 1990s Gulf War. Kuwait has not publicly acknowledged banning the game, which
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A senior executive for Volkswagen in China has been deported for allegedly using cocaine and marijuana while on vacation in Thailand. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that a Volkswagen employee had been deported after being detained for 10 days. A Beijing police report said an investigation had determined that the
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a Russian man who supported his country’s war in Ukraine has been charged with murder over the fatal stabbing in Germany earlier this year of two wounded Ukrainian soldiers who were recovering from operations there. The 57-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after the stabbing in the small Bavarian town of
Continue ReadingEdmunds Many car shoppers like the idea of hybrids, but not the upfront premium that often is thousands more than the sticker price of a non-hybrid model. But there’s another option. Lightly used hybrids, ranging from 3 to 4 years old, with around 30,000 miles, can take the sting out of a hybrid purchase. Here
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s drug regulator approved the Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla on Wednesday, but the government won’t be paying for it after an independent watchdog agency said the treatment isn’t worth the cost to taxpayers. It is the second Alzheimer’s drug to receive such a mixed reception within months. In August, the
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government is fining American Airlines $50 million for failing to provide wheelchair assistance to passengers with disabilities and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five-year period. The Transportation Department announced the civil penalty on Wednesday. American will only have to pay half of the fine because it
Continue ReadingAP Business Writers Millions of Americans can’t afford to buy a home or rent a suitable apartment, making housing a central issue for voters in the upcoming presidential election. The Harris and Trump campaigns have laid out plans aimed at boosting home construction. Among Harris’ policy proposals: tax incentives to build 3 million additional homes
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Kristy has strengthened into a Category 4 storm and is expected to remain away from land as it churns in the Pacific Ocean. The major hurricane on Wednesday was 710 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. It was moving west at
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police have arrested three men on suspicion of killing two transgender women with daggers at their home in the country’s conservative northwest. District police chief Zahur Babar Afridi told reporters that the men were arrested Tuesday over the killings, which took place Sunday in Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian artist Mundano is presenting a massive street mural in Sao Paulo that uses ash from wildfires and mud from floods to highlight extreme weather events wreaking devastation in the country. Over 30 meters high and 48 meters wide, the mural depicts deforestation and severe drought in the Amazon
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Whether it’s digging for metals and minerals for cellphones and electric vehicles or coal for power generation, mining around the world has skyrocketed since 2000, causing widespread destruction of tropical forests, degrading the environment and displacing Indigenous and local communities, the World Resources Institute says in a report released
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has granted bail to the wife of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a graft case. Bushra Bibi was arrested after a court on Jan. 31 convicted and sentenced the couple to 14 years in jail in a corruption case. Bibi is Khan’s third
Continue ReadingKAZAN, Russia (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of Kremlin efforts to challenge Western global clout. The three-day meeting in the city of Kazan attended by 36 countries showcases the failure of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — French rescue vessels and a passenger ferry have pulled the bodies of three migrants from the English Channel. The latest deaths pushed the count so far this year of dead and missing in the busy waterway’s French side to above 50. Authorities said 45 other people were rescued on Wednesday.
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