By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — State media say three Iraqi troops have been killed after a suspected Islamic State militant detonated an explosive vest during a security operation. The soldiers were carrying out a raid Thursday on a suspected IS cell in north of Baghdad after receiving intelligence that the militants were
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin covered her mouth with her fluorescent orange mittens and then collapsed to the snow, still breathing heavily as her entire body pulsated from the exertion of her gold medal-winning run. What a relief after a hectic week for the American skier.
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The ranks of marchers were thinner during a new wave of strikes and protests in France aimed at testing the government’s resolve on a hotly contested pension reform. But unions Thursday put the accent on a planned March 7 general strike meant to bring the country to
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests across France Thursday tested the government’s resolve on a controversial pension reform, the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. The proposed pension reforms have unleashed the most turbulent debate in years in the National Assembly, with uncertainty
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Beech, Eric Levenson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday and said the agency plans to hold the train company Norfolk Southern accountable for its role in the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals earlier this month. Speaking to CNN’s
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials have ended their three-day search of the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for seeking information about the organization’s business operations amid allegations of tax evasion. Television images showed tax officials leaving in cars after spending nearly 60 hours
Continue ReadingBy PIYUSH NAGPAL and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials are searching the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for a third straight day seeking information about the organization’s business operations amid allegations of tax evasion. Some news staff members were questioned overnight, but the tax officials restricted themselves
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds. The group, whose members are between the
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence. Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Bill Kirkos, CNN The father of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more at a Fourth of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, appeared in court Thursday after being indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury Wednesday. Robert Crimo Jr. was charged by the
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With overwhelming bipartisan support, Senate Bill 599 passed the Oregon Senate Wednesday. The legislation requires housing providers to allow child care services to operate in rental homes, when certain conditions are met.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Starbucks will open more than 400 stores across Asia Pacific in 2023, marking its biggest expansion in the region in five years. The coffee chain plans to add the new outlets in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and the Philippines, where it aims to expand beyond major cities. It will open
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The Bend City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday night to send a five-year, $65 million local option levy for fire and emergency medical services to the May 16 election ballot.
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A Bend man suspected in a pair of Redmond thefts was pulled over on Highway 97 and arrested on numerous charges Wednesday after a Redmond Police detective who had just recovered the stolen tools from a Bend pawn shop spotted his car, from which drugs and guns were seized.
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The day after Russia invaded Ukraine, the leaders of NATO’s 30 member countries held an emergency summit to address what they described as the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security in decades — the launch of what would become the biggest land war in Europe since 1945. “In
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers, Melissa Alonso and Ray Sanchez, CNN A Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer was arrested Thursday on a charge of negligent homicide in the fatal shooting earlier this month of Alonzo Bagley, an unarmed Black man, Louisiana State Police said. Officer Alexander Tyler made his initial appearance in court, where a
Continue ReadingBy ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister is in Kyiv for the first public visit to Ukraine’s capital by a senior Israeli official since Russia’s invasion last year. But there are no signs that Israel is preparing to significantly increase its modest support for Ukraine or meet Ukrainian requests
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Friday after benchmarks on Wall Street had their biggest drop in four weeks as investors registered disappointment over an inflation reading that came in hotter than expected. Oil prices and U.S. futures also declined after the S&P 500 fell 1.4% Thursday
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