By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A group of 15 Ukrainian deminers are wrapping up a week of training in Cambodia, where experts who have cleared minefields from one of the world’s most contaminated countries shared their expertise with the relative newcomers to the dangerous job. Cambodia is
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, CNN The former president of the New York Police Department’s second-largest union has pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge in connection with a scheme to bilk the union out of more than half a million dollars by filing phony expense reports, prosecutors announced Thursday. Edward Mullins, the former president of the
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — India’s foreign minister says his country has given financial assurances to the International Monetary Fund to facilitate a bailout plan to help neighboring Sri Lanka emerge from its worst economic crisis, in a first formal announcement from one of the island nation’s creditors. India’s Foreign
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — India’s foreign minister says his country has given financial assurances to the International Monetary Fund to facilitate a bailout plan to help neighboring Sri Lanka emerge from its worst economic crisis, in a first formal announcement from one of the island nation’s creditors. India’s Foreign
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, Angus Watson, Mitchell McCluskey and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN A man who spent 24 days adrift in the Caribbean Sea says he survived by eating little more than ketchup. Elvis Francois, 47, was found 120 nautical miles northwest of Colombia’s Puerto Bolívar after a plane saw the word “help” engraved on the hull
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN For many, the new year offers a chance to strive to be better — at work, in relationships or to achieve one’s wildest dreams. America’s top-ranked female tennis player Jessica Pegula looks to have received the memo. The 28-year-old is off to a flying start in 2023, securing her first career
Continue ReadingBy JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Remarkable as Damar Hamlin’s recovery has been, the Buffalo Bills safety still faces a lengthy rehabilitation some three weeks after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, his marketing representative told The Associated Press
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed to boost military spending by more than a third by 2030 to face evolving threats. Macron announced a proposal for 413 billion euros (nearly $450 billion) in military spending for the period of 2024-2030 to ensure “our freedom,
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Josh Campbell and Jay Croft, CNN Despite facing involuntary manslaughter charges connected to the “Rust” set shooting death of a cinematographer, Alec Baldwin intends to finish the movie’s production, a source close to the actor told CNN. Meanwhile, the New Mexico prosecutor who is planning to charge Baldwin is gearing up for
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, Yoonjung Seo and Jake Kwon, CNN South Korea’s leader is capping off a whirlwind week, after securing tens of billions of dollars in investment from the Middle East and vowing to have his country play a more important role in revitalizing international supply chains. On Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
Continue ReadingBy SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press GORAZDE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Residents of eastern Bosnia’s city of Gorazde do not need imaginations to understand the suffering of Ukraine’s people. Three decades ago, they endured more than three years of extreme hardship as Bosnian Serbs pummeled their city with rockets and artillery from the surrounding hills. The long
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — As actor Alec Baldwin faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a cinematographer on a New Mexico, gun safety on sets remains at the forefront of many in Hollywood. Joey Dillon, who supervises weapons in TV and film, says that since
Continue ReadingBy JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press Wisps of fog hung over central Almaty, Kazakhstan, last month as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev somberly unveiled a monument to those killed a year ago in the worst unrest in the Central Asian nation’s three decades of independence. Words on the stark concrete “Reverence” memorial speak of the need for unity
Continue ReadingBy Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Japan will consider downgrading Covid-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza this spring, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Friday. Kishida said he had instructed Health Ministry officials to discuss the move and his administration would also review rules on face masks and other
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Visit Bend is seeking applicants interested in serving a three-year term on the organization’s board of directors. It says applicants should be stakeholders in Bend’s tourism industry.
Continue ReadingEVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police in Indiana said Friday that heroic actions by a Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot and injured one female employee from doing more harm. The woman was the only person injured late Thursday when 25-year-old Ronald Ray Mosley II walked into a store break room
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The last major pieces of the contract to build the wave energy test facility PacWave South have been executed, paving the way for completion of the Oregon State University-led facility off the coast of Newport.
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam and Andy Rose, CNN Mexican authorities investigating the case of an American attorney who was found dead at a resort hotel earlier this month determined there was no foul play in his death, according to an official statement released Thursday. Elliot Blair, 33, died from severe head trauma, suffering injuries consistent with
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A rough week on Wall Street dominated by worries about a weakening economy ended Friday with a broad rally that gave the market its best day in two weeks. The S&P 500 rose 1.9%. Despite the gains, the benchmark index still ended with its first weekly
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A rough week on Wall Street dominated by worries about a weakening economy ended Friday with a broad rally that gave the market its best day in two weeks. The S&P 500 rose 1.9%. Despite the gains, the benchmark index still ended with its first weekly
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