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Associated Press Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pushed back his departure to China after contracting “mild pneumonia,” the presidential palace said in a statement Friday. Lula, 77, underwent medical examinations in a hospital after a trip to Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, the statement said. He had been expected to leave for

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials in Kyiv say long-range Russian bombardment has killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several parts of Ukraine. The attacks came as a Kremlin official warned that its forces are prepared for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the coming weeks. Five people

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until next week. Friday’s order by the Lahore High Court virtually shields the former premier from arrest until March 27. The ruling was another reprieve for ouster premier Khan, who currently faces

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Skimming the treetops, three Soviet-era attack helicopters bank and swoop down on a field after an early-morning mission to the front lines in the fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Each day, they might fly three or four sorties, says the commander, whose two-crew Mi-24 helicopter, built about 40 years

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, “G-Man,” are among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards. Other works awarded by the NBCC on Thursday night included Isaac Butler’s “The

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official says Filipino diplomats have confronted Chinese officials in closed-door talks with a slew of protests over China’s aggressive behavior in the South China Sea but no major resolution was reached on the issues. Recent incidents include a Chinese coast guard ship targeting a

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish coal miners angered by a European Union directive to reduce methane emissions have protested noisily in front of the EU office in Warsaw, saying it will deprive them of their jobs. The protesters from the Solidarity 80 union said recent climate recommendations for the 27-member EU that call for a

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu to London office while demonstrators gathered nearby to protest the Israeli leader’s right-wing policies. Netanyahu had to pass by hundreds of protesters waving Israeli flags and shouting “Shame!” in Hebrew when he arrived at Sunak’s Downing Street office

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Irma Reyes changed clothes in the back seat of the pickup: skirt, tights, turtleneck, leather jacket. All black. She brushed her hair and pulled on heels as her husband drove their Chevy through predawn darkness toward a courthouse hundreds of miles from home. She wanted to

JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — More than 1,500 people have been evacuated as a major forest fire rages in Spain’s eastern Castellon province, marking an early start to the nation’s fire season amid bone dry conditions. Local officials said the fire had engulfed around 3,000 hectares of land. Ximo Puig, the president of

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shares in Deutsche Bank fell sharply Friday, dragging down other major European banks and leading German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to express confidence in the country’s largest lender after fears about the global financial system sent fresh shudders through the market. Deutsche Bank shares closed down 8.5%