MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A year after Novak Djokovic’s high-profile deportation from Australia because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, the 21-time Grand Slam champion is set to be granted a visa to enter the country so he can compete at the Australian Open in January. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday it had confirmed
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s justice minister says the number of people in custody in connection with the deadly bomb attack on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul has increased to 50. Sunday’s explosion hit Istiklal Avenue in the heart of the city, killing six people and wounding several dozen others. Turkish authorities blamed the attack
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders Tuesday who persist in backing new fossil fuel projects despite science warnings that this will push temperatures across the planet to dangerous highs. Countries agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord to limit global warming to 1.5
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders Tuesday who persist in backing new fossil fuel projects despite science warnings that this will push temperatures across the planet to dangerous highs as a handful of activists held a symbolic protest at a
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Mt. Bachelor has announced it will start construction next June of a state-of-the-art biomass facility to heat its buildings, saying it will replace propane heat in green fashion while also helping the surrounding forest reduce hazardous wildfire fuels.
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS, KELVIN CHAN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has met with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks underway in Egypt. It’s the latest sign of improving relations between the world’s top two polluters. Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed a day
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry indicated on Tuesday he’ll hold talks with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks underway in Egypt, in the latest sign of improving relations between the world’s top two polluters after a meeting between their
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hosting the World Cup marks a pinnacle in Qatar’s efforts to rise out of the shadow of its larger neighbors in the wider Middle East, where its politics and its upstart ambitions have brought both international attention and regional ire. The road to the
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hosting the World Cup marks a pinnacle in Qatar’s efforts to rise out of the shadow of its larger neighbors in the wider Middle East, where its politics and its upstart ambitions have brought both international attention and regional ire. The road to the
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Rhea Mogul, CNN Australia will overturn a three-year ban on tennis player Novak Djokovic entering the country, paving the way for the former world No. 1 to contest the 2023 Australian Open. Australia’s Immigration Minister Andrew Giles will repeal the ban, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told CNN
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Canucks teammate Roberto Luongo, former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson, Finnish women’s national team player Riikka Sallinen and Herb Carnegie were welcomed into the Hockey Hall of Fame as the class of 2022 on Monday. The Sedin twins and Luongo were elected in their first years of eligibility
Continue ReadingBy PHILIPP JENNE and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press ST. GEORGEN, Austria (AP) — In a standoff over the rising number of asylum-seekers in Austria, the mayor of a small village has defied the federal government and ordered that tents housing migrants be dismantled. After a weeks-long conflict, St. Georgen Mayor Ferdinand Aigner on Monday had
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Gov. Kate Brown, attending a trade meeting in Vietnam, exercised her executive authority under ORS Chapter 401 Monday in response to a surge of pediatric cases and hospitalizations of respiratory viruses, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus — commonly known as RSV — across Oregon.
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thirugnanam Sureshan maneuvers his wheelchair into the tiny kitchen of his one-bedroom apartment, flips the switch on an electric kettle and brews a mug of instant coffee. It’s his second hot drink of the day, and it will be his last. The humble countertop kettle — ubiquitous
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions are hoping British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak finds money to help them survive a cost-of-living crisis when the government releases its spending plans Thursday. With inflation at a 40-year high, the demands are many, ranging from pay increases for nurses and police officers to increased welfare
Continue ReadingBy Reuters Right on Times Square in the heart of New York’s theater district, a new Museum of Broadway is designed to take fans behind the curtain of some of its biggest musicals. Rooms in the museum on 45th Street, which opens on Tuesday, use music, videos, glittering costumes and walk-through sets to tell the
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani official says the prime minister has ordered a review of the ban on the country’s Oscar entry, the movie “Joyland.” The movie, which features a love story between a married man and a transgender woman, is Pakistan’s entry for next year’s Academy Awards and was a prizewinner at this year’s
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is set to deliver verdicts in the long-running trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian rebel for their alleged roles in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. A total of 298 people killed on
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world is getting hotter and more crowded and the two issues are connected, but not quite as much as people might think, experts say. On Tuesday somewhere a baby will be born that will be the globe’s 8 billionth person, according to a
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Chris Boyette, CNN A man was arrested Monday after allegedly shooting two people, killing one of them, in an unprovoked attack at an Arizona business before fleeing into the desert, officials said. The suspect entered a business in Whetstone, Arizona, twice Monday acting as a customer before returning and opening fire
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