MILAN (AP) — Italian conductor Riccardo Muti plans to visit Syrian musicians living in the vast Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on the sidelines of his annual Roads of Friendship concert series that aims to use music to build bridges and help those touched by war. The Ravenna Festival announced Thursday that Muti will conduct Italian
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed the pace of its interest rate increases, stepping back like the U.S. Federal Reserve from a string of jumbo hikes aimed at snuffing out inflation. But the ECB also said Thursday that it’s “not pausing” even as its efforts
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Residents say heavy shelling in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum is disrupting efforts to deliver badly needed aid to trapped civilians after yet another fragile and frequently violated truce ran out. Sudan has plunged into chaos since fighting erupted in mid-April between the country’s two top generals.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say one or more shooters opened fire on a child playing in the front yard of a Kansas home, killing him. Police Maj. Violeta Magee told reporters that the attack Wednesday evening in Kansas City, Kansas, when it was still daylight, doesn’t appear to have been a “random act.”
Continue ReadingBy Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly, Maria Santana and Ray Sanchez, CNN After his mother was murdered in 2007, Jordan Neely eked out a living as a well-known Michael Jackson impersonator in Times Square and on New York’s subways. But he apparently fell on hard times in recent years, according to a friend and a relative,
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed the pace of its interest rate increases, stepping back like the U.S. Federal Reserve from a string of jumbo hikes aimed at snuffing out inflation. The ECB’s quarter-point hike Thursday follows evidence that its efforts are working by making
Continue Reading NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — Officials say an explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Massachusetts left one worker missing and sent four people to the hospital as a precaution. The explosion happened around 1 a.m. Thursday at the Sequens/PCI Synthesis plant in Newburyport. Video footage showed most of the roof torn off the building. A fire
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN The last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month was taken into custody Thursday morning, according to an update from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. Escapee Corey Harrison was taken into custody by the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force at a
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street tipped lower in premarket trading Thursday as anxiety over the stability of regional banks dragged on a day after the Federal Reserve announced another interest rate hike. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrials fell 0.3%. Concerns about a rush of
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s centrist government wants to spend 38 billion kroner ($5.6 billion) over the next decade to modernize military facilities, renovate shabby and dilapidated buildings, increase the number of soldiers and upgrade outdated computer systems. Acting Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen called it “a very serious situation.” and He said Thursday that
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say a man who seriously wounded two young girls in an attack at a school in Berlin may have been suffering from a drug-induced psychological illness. Prosecutors say they are asking a court to have the 38-year-old suspect held in a psychiatric hospital pending further investigation. The man, who was
Continue ReadingBy Laura Ly, CNN Test scores for eighth-grade students in the US declined in both US history and civics in 2022, according to a new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as “The Nation’s Report Card.” The announcement of the new lower scores come after the assessment reported last fall
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Hungarian capital on Thursday, painting a picture of a global right-wing movement mobilizing to defeat “progressive elites.” Viktor Orban’s speech at CPAC Hungary centered around
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Two people were killed and several experienced a psychologically damaging shock in a train accident near the western German city of Cologne on Thursday, German news agency dpa reported. The train apparently crashed into a group of people who were working on the tracks close to the town of Huerth. Emergency personnel,
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Thousands of people are planning to line the streets of London this weekend to witness the coronation of King Charles III. The festivities, however, may be dampened by “unsettled” weather, with numerous showers and thunderstorms in the forecast, officials said. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to
Continue Reading FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen profits fell 30% in the first three months of the year despite booming business in Europe and North America. That’s because sales fell in China, where the German company is facing increasing competition from homegrown models. VW reported Thursday that after-tax profit fell to 4.7 billion euros from 6.7 billion
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Six soldiers have been killed in a shootout with militants in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the border with Afghanistan. A military statement said the exchange of fire Thursday took place in North Waziristan, a district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The region is a former stronghold of the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain’s competition watchdog is opening a review of the artificial intelligence market, focusing on the technology underpinning chatbots like ChatGPT. The Competition Markets Authority said Thursday that it will look into the opportunities and risks of AI as well as the competition rules and consumer protections that may be needed. Artificial intelligence’s
Continue Reading NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Napoli fans are preparing to celebrate the Italian league soccer title for the third time in five days. Napoli can seal its first Serie A title in more than three decades if it wins or draws at Udinese later in the day. Diego Maradona led the southern club to its only
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in England are voting Thursday in local elections, the first test of electoral opinion since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took over a fractious and exhausted Conservative Party six months ago. The Conservatives say they expect to lose ground in elections for more than 8,000
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