By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fierce fighting raged Thursday in southeastern Ukraine, where a Western official said Kyiv has launched a major push and Russian President Vladimir Putin said “hostilities have intensified significantly.” Battles in recent weeks have taken place on multiple points along the over 1,000-kilometer (over
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CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Oren Liebermann, Vasco Cotovio and Olga Voitovich, CNN (CNN) — After two months of painstakingly slow progress on the battlefield, Ukraine appears to be escalating its counteroffensive, ramping up the deployment of extra troops to the southern front and signaling a new phase of the operation, US and Russian officials said.
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian emergency officials say a helicopter has crashed in Siberia, killing four and injuring 10 of those on board. The officials said the Mi-8 helicopter caught fire as it was landing in southern Siberia’s Altai Republic and brushed against a power line on Thursday. The Altai branch of the Russian Emergency Ministry
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has raised interest rates for the ninth straight time in its yearlong campaign to stamp out painfully high inflation. ECB President Christine Lagarde had all but promised the quarter-percentage point increase and kept the door open Thursday to further hikes despite
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fierce fighting raged Thursday in southeastern Ukraine, where a Western official said Kyiv has launched a major push and Russian President Vladimir Putin said “hostilities have intensified significantly.” Battles in recent weeks have taken place on multiple points along the 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) front
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s president defiantly declared Thursday that democracy would prevail, a day after mutinous soldiers detained him and announced they had seized power in a coup over the West African country’s deteriorating security situation. While many people in the capital of Niamey went about their usual business,
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday announced the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced health research agency, aiming to help doctors more easily distinguish between cancerous cells and healthy tissue during surgery and improve outcomes for patients. The administration’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health,
Continue Reading MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 21 people died and 40 others were rescued after a Philippine passenger boat overturned Thursday when it was lashed by strong winds in Laguna Lake southeast of Manila, police said. Police said rescue operations were continuing, but did not immediately provide figures for the total number of people on
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy surprisingly accelerated to a 2.4% annual growth rate from April through June, showing continued resilience in the face of steadily higher interest rates resulting from the Federal Reserve’s 16-month-long fight to bring down inflation. The gross domestic product — the economy’s total output
Continue Reading CNN By Donald Judd (CNN) — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday offered a decisive “no” when pressed if President Joe Biden might consider pardoning his son, Hunter, over felony gun and tax misdemeanor charges. Earlier in the briefing, Jean-Pierre declined to say if the president had spoken to his son after a
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Seven major automakers are coming together to build a massive charging network for electric vehicles in North America. The companies — General Motors, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis — plan to install at least 30,000 chargers in the US and Canada in an attempt to make
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Seven major automakers are coming together to build a massive charging network for electric vehicles in North America. The companies — General Motors, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis — plan to install at least 30,000 chargers in the US and Canada in an attempt to make electric
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, Ray Sanchez and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Pontiac, Michigan (CNN) — Ethan Crumbley recorded audio saying, “I am going to be the next school shooter,” the night before killing four students and wounding seven others in a mass shooting at Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021. Prosecutors played the audio of two
Continue Reading By Fabiana Chaparro and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — Civil rights activists joined friends and family of missing North Carolina woman Allisha Dene Watts to demand answers from police about what they are doing to find the woman who was last seen July 16. Watts, a 39-year-old Black woman, was reported missing from a home
Continue Reading By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge in Michigan must decide whether a teenager who killed four students at his school should spend his life in prison. Ethan Crumbley was 15 when he committed a mass shooting at Oxford High School in 2021. He’s pleaded guilty murder, terrorism and other charges.
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft over concerns that bundling its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app with its Office productivity software gives it an unfair edge over competitors. The European Commission said Thursday that it would carry out its in-depth investigation “as a
Continue Reading MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine passenger boat carrying dozens of people, including children, has overturned after being lashed by strong wind in a town east of Manila. The Coast Guard says search and rescue efforts are underway. The MBCA Aya capsized on Thursday when its passengers panicked and moved to one side of the
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s foreign minister called for mutinous soldiers to release the president on Thursday, a day after members of the presidential guard declared they had seized power in a coup over the West African country’s deteriorating security situation. While many people in the capital of Niamey went
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese pop star Shinjiro Atae said he is gay in an emotional announcement at a fan event that was warmly welcomed in a country where the government does not legally recognize LGBTQ equality. He choked up when he spoke in Tokyo on Wednesday, but the fans cheered,
Continue Reading By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Thousands of Shiite Muslims have been allowed to hold a religious procession marking the Muslim month of Muharram in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city for the first time since an anti-India rebellion broke out in the disputed region more than three decades ago. Muharram is among the
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