By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — French confessed serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers. His lawyer says he was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris. The Supreme Court earlier ordered his
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Friday, its latest weapons demonstration that came days after U.S. and South Korean warplanes conducted joint drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. North Korea has conducted an unprecedented number of
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Winter weather poses unique challenges to people faced with bitter cold, snow and ice. The American Red Cross has 15 steps you should take to stay safe if you are in the path of winter storms.
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has loosened restrictions on travel and gatherings with the threat from COVID-19 receding. But a buoyant holiday mood is not lifting the country which is coping with widespread power outages and the world’s highest food inflation. Globally, food prices have spiked as a result of
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money—a crime known as financial sextortion. Over the past
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press BAZHOU, China (AP) — Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the coronavirus is now spreading through the vast country. Experts predict difficult months ahead for its 1.4 billion people. China’s unyielding “zero-COVID” approach, which aimed to isolate all infected people, bought
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Most Oregonians who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will receive emergency allotments in January.
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Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced Thursday that their bipartisan Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support as an amendment to Congress’s fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations package, which is expected to pass both chambers of Congress and be signed into law by President Biden this week.
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN The plight of nearly 200 Rohingya refugees adrift in the Indian Ocean for the past month is growing increasingly desperate, the United Nations’ refugee agency said Friday, as it repeated its call for countries in the region to help save them. Many passengers are feared dead and survivors are said to
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Does the thought of filing your taxes make you break out in a cold sweat? Do you dread tax season every year? Taking a few easy steps in the next few weeks can make preparing your 2022 tax return easier in 2023 — and it could just lower your heart rate in the process.
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Tetsu Sukegawa, CNN Several members of a QAnon group in Japan were sentenced by a Tokyo court on Thursday for breaking into multiple Covid vaccination centers, according to CNN affiliate TV Asahi. The five defendants were members of YamatoQ, an offshoot of the larger QAnon conspiracy theory that originated in the
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police say a powerful car bomb has exploded near a residential area in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, killing two suspected militants and an officer. At least three police officers and seven civilians were also wounded in Friday’s bombing. A police statement said the explosion detonated after police officers
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press LYKOFI, Greece (AP) — Accompanied by a cloud of mosquitos, Police Capt. Konstantinos Tsolakidis and three other border guards set out on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural frontier between Greece and Turkey. The route takes them through a maze formed by tall reeds, past
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press DBAYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Tucked away in the hills north of Beirut below a Maronite monastery, Lebanon’s only remaining Christian-majority Palestinian camp gives few outward clues to its identity. Unlike the country’s other Palestinian refugee camps, there are no flags or political slogans on display in Dbayeh camp. Behind closed
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Hong Kong, Sydney and several other places closed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.5% to 26,367.40 and the Kospi in Seoul added 0.2% to 2,317.48. The Shanghai Composite index surged 0.7% to 3,067.54
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Hong Kong, Sydney and several other places closed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.5% to 26,367.40 and the Kospi in Seoul added 0.2% to 2,317.48. The Shanghai Composite index surged 0.7% to 3,067.54
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Melbourne Victory soccer club has been prevented from selling tickets to home games and fans cannot attend away matches under Football Australia’s preliminary sanctions for a violent pitch invasion. The Victory were put on notice after 150 spectators stormed the AAMI Park pitch in last Saturday’s A-League match against Melbourne
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a monumental year for public health-related legal settlements, including last week’s nearly $700 million settlement with Monsanto over PCB contamination in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Justice has recently signed onto eight multi-state agreements with companies that either distributed, produced or sold opioids, bringing Oregon’s share up to $701.5 million
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, laid out a damning case over 800-plus pages that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election led to the violence at the US Capitol, documenting the ex-chief executive’s actions for the record and potentially for criminal investigators.
Continue ReadingCNN, ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION, POOL, JANUARY 6 HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE, TYLER BAGGINS, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH LLP, JOHN HARRINGTON, GETTY IMAGES By Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, laid out a damning case over 800-plus pages that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn
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