Rare drone video shows scale of destruction in embattled northeast front line town
VOVCHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Associated Press has obtained rare drone footage of the destroyed ruins of the embattled town of Vovchansk in…
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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the New Mexico presidential and state primaries
By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Mexico voters will be among the last to cast ballots for presidential nominees when the…
Continue ReadingTrump Media shares recover after post conviction sell-off
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, rebounded…
Continue ReadingAP Decision Notes: What to expect in Iowa’s state primaries
By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa voters will cast ballots in primaries for the narrowly divided U.S. House as well as the…
Continue ReadingPolice arrest ‘many’ at Israel-Hamas war protest at UC Santa Cruz, school says
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A spokesperson for the University of California, Santa Cruz, says many people have been arrested at a…
Continue Reading6 injured in a knife attack in the German city of Mannheim. Police shot and wounded the assailant
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a man stabbed several members of a group that describes itself as opposing “political Islam” and a police officer…
Continue ReadingAP Decision Notes: What to expect in the final presidential primaries and caucuses of 2024
By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2024 presidential primary calendar is drawing to a close with a handful of primaries on…
Continue ReadingRussian court extends the detention of a Russian-US journalist
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia on Friday ordered a detained Russian American journalist to be held until at least Aug. 5, pending investigation…
Continue ReadingThe Latest | Biden speaks after Donald Trump’s conviction in hush money case
NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive…
Continue ReadingABBA will get a prestigious Swedish knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love…
Continue ReadingPapua New Guinea’s prime minister visits the site of a landslide estimated to have killed hundreds
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a major landslide that is…
Continue ReadingPolice break up a network that illegally helped foreigners stay in Thailand, arresting dozens
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say they have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term…
Continue ReadingHungary’s Orbán pushes back on EU and NATO proposals to further assist Ukraine
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that…
Continue ReadingFrench authorities regain full control of New Caledonia’s capital after days of deadly unrest
By The Associated Press The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific…
Continue ReadingInflation ticked up in Europe in May. That likely won’t stop a central bank rate cut next week
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May. The new figure released on…
Continue ReadingSlovak prime minister who was shot in an assassination attempt is released from the hospital
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa heads for ‘coalition country’ as partial election results put ruling ANC well below 50%
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition…
Continue ReadingBerlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia after the US also eases its stance
By ILLIA NOVIKOV, MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany has joined the United States in authorizing Ukraine…
Continue ReadingHouthi rebels say at least 16 killed and 42 others wounded in joint US-British airstrikes in Yemen
By JON GAMBRELL and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi…
Continue ReadingNATO ministers meet in Prague as allies ease restrictions on Ukraine’s use of their weapons
By MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — NATO foreign ministers were meeting in the Czech capital Friday to prepare for this…
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