By SARA BURNETT Asociated Press In many election cycles, there’s a snappy shorthand used to describe the type of voters who may help decide the winner. Think soccer moms or security moms. Even NASCAR dads. And now, the “mama bears.” These conservative mothers and grandmothers, who in recent years have organized for “parental rights,” including
Continue Reading By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroonian authorities say at least nine people were killed and nearly three dozen injured in a building collapse. A four-story building collapsed onto a smaller one early Sunday morning in Douala, the country’s economic center and largest city. Bodies are still being recovered. The military’s
Continue Reading By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroonian authorities say at least nine people were killed and nearly three dozen wounded in a building collapse. A four-story building collapsed onto a smaller one early Sunday morning in Douala, the country’s economic center and largest city. Bodies are still being recovered. The military’s
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media says five people have died and three others are missing after floods caused by heavy rain hit the eastern part of the country. China National Radio says the massive floods swept through a village in Hangzhou city and engulfed many houses on Saturday afternoon. CCTV says he rain led
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Environmentalists are cautioning Britain’s main political parties not to water down their climate change promises. It comes after a special election result that was widely seen as a thumbs-down from voters to a tax on polluting cars. The governing Conservatives suffered two heavy defeats in a trio
Continue Reading By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers ended a four-day search for scores of people still missing after heavy monsoon rains triggered a massive landslide in a village in western India, an official said Sunday. The rescue teams recovered the bodies of 27 people killed in the Wednesday night landslide
Continue Reading By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires burned for a sixth day on three fronts, Greek authorities said on Sunday. The Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was “the largest evacuation from a wildfire in the
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media says five people have died and three others are missing after floods caused by heavy rain hit the eastern part of the country. China National Radio said the massive floods swept through a village in Hangzhou city and engulfed many villagers’ houses on Saturday afternoon. CCTV added the rain
Continue Reading By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain withstood soaring summer temperatures to vote Sunday in a general election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right. The Interior Ministry said turnout was 40% at 2 p.m., 2.5% more than in the last elections
Continue Reading By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires continued burning for a sixth day on three fronts, Greek authorities said on Sunday. The Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was “the largest evacuation from a wildfire in
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media says five people have died and two others are missing after floods caused by heavy rain hit a village in the eastern part of the country. China National Radio said the massive floods swept through the village in Hangzhou city and engulfed many villagers’ houses on Saturday afternoon. Authorities
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government’s contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and unrest gripped the country. Netanyahu’s doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russian tennis player Vera Zvonareva has been banned from entering Poland, the country’s Ministry of the Interior says. Zvonareva was to take part in a WTA 250 tournament in Warsaw, A statement on the ministry website says Poland’s Border Guard prevented entry by the former world No. 2, who flew in
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan has killed at least 12 people and left dozens missing, according to a Taliban spokesman and local officials. Government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Sunday that around 40 people are missing after the flash flooding late Saturday night in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province,
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government’s contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and unrest gripped the country. Netanyahu’s doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went smoothly
Continue Reading By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — British pop rock band The 1975 announced on Sunday it was canceling its shows in Jakarta and Taipei after the Malaysian government cut short a music festival in the wake of the band’s lead singer slamming the country’s anti-gay laws and kissing a male bandmate during
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA and ELISE MORTON Associated Press ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, keeping up a barrage of attacks that has damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine in the past week. At least one person was killed and 22 others wounded in the
Continue Reading By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Polling began Sunday in Spain in a general election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers Party and its far-left partner, Unidas Podemos, took a
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government’s contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and unrest gripped the country. Netanyahu’s doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went smoothly
Continue Reading BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A deck collapsed at a Montana country club, leaving up to 25 people injured on Saturday evening, police and news reports said. Emergency services responded to a report of a collapsed patio on the 3400 block of Briarwood Boulevard in Billings at 7:50 p.m., the Billings Police Department said in a
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