Month: July 2022

BERLIN (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister has called on rich and developing countries to show readiness to compromise at the U.N. climate talks he will chair in November. He said Tuesday that the negotiations shouldn’t be a “zero-sum game” between wealthier and poorer nations. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spoke as officials from 40 countries held

By DAVID KOENIG and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions, but their share is sure to grow as more people travel in coming years. That has the aviation industry facing the prospect of tighter environmental regulations and higher costs. At Monday’s opening of a

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy has had dozens of governments since the end of World War II. The  country is very much used to political crises that topple ruling coalitions. But the tumult now roiling political parties is playing out differently. The fate of Premier Mario Draghi’s government is hanging in

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani rescuers have resumed a search for 29 people who were missing after a passenger boat carrying nearly 100 members of a wedding party capsized in the fast-flowing Indus river. Twenty-one women and children were killed in the disaster on Monday. Divers from Pakistan’s army were also expected to

By DAVID KOENIG and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions, but their share is sure to grow as more people travel in coming years — and that has the aviation industry facing the prospect of tighter environmental regulations and higher costs. The industry has

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says at least 31 people have been injured after an earthquake shook a remote area of eastern Afghanistan. Abdul Wahid Rayan, the director of the Taliban news agency Bakhtar, said Tuesday that the quake shook the region a day earlier. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a magnitude

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have called off a strike that ran for 15 days and caused major disruption, after reaching an agreement with management.   SAS CEO Anko van der Werff said the parties had agreed on an agreement covering the next five-and-a-half years that guarantees both cost

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes. The typically

CAIRO (AP) — A passenger bus slammed into a parked trailer truck on a highway in southern Egypt early on Tuesday, killing 23 people and injuring at least 30, authorities said. The crash took place in the province of Minya, on the main highway linking the capital, Cairo, with the country’s south. The bus was

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for 13 passengers from a boat that sank in bad weather and high waves while traveling between Indonesian islands. The boat sank Monday night in the Maluku Islands with 77 people on board. Rescue officials say 64 survivors have been found. Rubber boats, speedboats and a local longboat

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta says he hopes Asia’s youngest country can join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations next year. He spoke about the possibility at a joint news conference Tuesday with Indonesian President Joko Widodo while on a weeklong visit to

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai lawmakers began debating on a final no-confidence debate targeting Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-och’s government before its four-year term ends next year. With general elections due in March, the government faces its last no-confidence vote after surviving three others in as many years. The debate targeting Prayuth

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is starting the long enlargement process that aims to lead to the Albania and North Macedonia joining the bloc. Any expansion beyond the current 27 EU member states is likely to be many years off, and both nations were already considered potential candidates 19