By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he hasn’t even considered issuing norms to regulate future papal resignations and plans to continue for as long as he can as bishop of Rome, despite a wave of attacks by some top-ranking cardinals and bishops. In his first interview since the Dec.
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested a senior leader from former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party on charges of threatening the chief of the elections overseeing body and other government officials. The arrest on Wednesday of Fawad Chaudhry was quickly condemned by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which demanded
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday amid hopes Western economies can avoid a recession despite higher interest rates to cool inflation. Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. Tokyo declined. Markets in China, India and Australia were closed for holidays. Wall Street ended Wednesday little changed after recovering
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday amid hopes Western economies can avoid a recession despite higher interest rates to cool inflation. Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. Tokyo declined. Markets in China, India and Australia were closed for holidays. Wall Street ended Wednesday little changed after recovering
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If OSU’s Horticulture Department sells 3,000 pre-sale vouchers for a ‘Pollinator Paradise’ bee-themed license plate, production can begin. · OSU is running the “bee plate” campaign and began voucher sales for the Pollinator Paradise plate last week. · Learn more about the plates and purchase vouchers here: https://agsci.oregonstate.edu/oregon-pollinator-license-plate-presale · DMV will not make the plate until 3,000 vouchers are
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A key, busy intersection in northeast Bend will close around Feb. 22 for a major improvement project expected to take until mid-summer to complete.
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine air force plane has crashed on a farm, killing the two people on board. Also Wednesday, a search was continuing for a private aircraft carrying six people that went missing the previous day in the mountainous north. The air force said its SF-260 plane was on a training flight
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press KFAR TIBNIT, Lebanon (AP) — On the outskirts of this southern Lebanese village, workers in a pickup truck parked at a nature reserve named after a fallen fighter of the militant Hezbollah group. They took two large eucalyptus tree seedlings out of the truck and planted them.
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The parents of a New Zealand scientist who was killed in Ukraine say he helped save hundreds of people while volunteering in the dangerous Donbas region. Andrew Bagshaw was a dual New Zealand and British citizen who was killed along with British colleague Chris Parry
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN The man suspected of killing four people at a California mushroom farm and three others at a nearby site Monday had legal possession of a semi-automatic weapon that was registered to him, a sheriff said. The suspect, Chunli Zhao, 66, was not known to local law
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rwanda has fired on a Congolese military aircraft it alleges violated its airspace in a new escalation of tensions between the neighbors that has set off alarm across central Africa. A Rwandan government statement says “defensive measures” were taken against a Sukhoi-25 from Congo on Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Bell, Saskya Vandoorne and Joseph Ataman, CNN Vladimir Osechkin says he was walking toward his dining room table, plates of spaghetti for his children in his hands, when he spotted the red laser dancing across the wall. He knew what was coming. Slamming off the lights, he says he and his wife pulled
Continue ReadingCNN By Melissa Bell, Saskya Vandoorne and Joseph Ataman, CNN Vladimir Osechkin says he was walking toward his dining room table, plates of spaghetti for his children in his hands, when he spotted the red laser dancing across the wall. He knew what was coming. Slamming off the lights, he says he and his wife
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government says the U.S. should stop pressuring it on debt relief for Zambia and focus on averting a government default at home with possible repercussions for the global economy. Its embassy in Zambia responded Tuesday to remarks by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said on a visit to the
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government says the U.S. should stop pressuring it on debt relief for Zambia and focus on averting a government default at home with possible repercussions for the global economy. Its embassy in Zambia responded Tuesday to remarks by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said on a visit to the
Continue ReadingBy TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — Just a handful of Chinese visitors were posing for photos and basking in the sun this week in the market and plazas near Chiang Mai’s ancient Tha Phae Gate, one of many tourist hotspots still waiting for millions of Chinese travelers to
Continue ReadingBy TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — The beaches and temples of Asian travel hotspots like Bali and Chiang Mai are the busiest they’ve been since the pandemic struck three years ago, but they’re still relatively quiet. Chinese tourists who used to visit by the millions have yet to
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Rebaza, CNN “If something happens to me, don’t cry,” Leonardo Hancco told his wife, Ruth Barcena, the morning of December 15 in Peru’s southern city of Ayacucho. The 32-year-old taxi driver and father of a seven-year-old girl had decided to join Peru’s nationwide political protests at the last minute. “If I have decided
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Walmart, el mayor empleador privado de Estados Unidos, anunció este martes que aumentará su salario mínimo de US$ 12 a US$ 14 la hora, en un intento por retener a los trabajadores de tiendas y almacenes en medio de un mercado laboral restringido para las industrias con salarios más bajos. Walmart
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