As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara
By TAIWO ADEBAYO, EVELYNE MUSAMBI and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press NAIROBI (AP) — A walk through the busy business district of Mombasa Road in…
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4 exceptionally preserved Roman swords discovered in a Dead Sea cave in Israel
By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely…
Continue ReadingTennis ball wasteland? Game grapples with a fuzzy yellow recycling problem
By JAMES MARTINEZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don’t think about when they open can after can…
Continue Reading‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ is coming to YouTube. This is what you’ll be able to stream
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer YouTube’s first season as the carrier of “NFL Sunday Ticket” begins this weekend. YouTube agreed to a…
Continue ReadingThe Rolling Stones announce release date for their new album and unveil lead single, ‘Angry’
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Rolling Stones are back, and they’ve brought a few famous friends. “Hackney Diamonds,”…
Continue ReadingArmenia will hold exercises with the US in a period of tensions with Russia
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenia says its forces will hold military exercises this month with the United States as tensions rose with longtime ally…
Continue ReadingEU targets Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech in next phase of digital crackdown
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is targeting six Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft under…
Continue ReadingUS Imposes sanctions on Sudanese paramilitary leader for human rights abuses in monthslong conflict
Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on Sudanese paramilitary commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo for acts of…
Continue ReadingAfrican Climate Summit issues unanimous call for world leaders to support global tax on fossil fuels
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first African Climate Summit has ended with a call for world leaders to rally behind a…
Continue ReadingScholz calls for a broad pact to slash bureaucracy and modernize Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged Germany’s opposition and regional governments to help slash a “thicket of bureaucracy” that…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka parliament debates the health minister’s fate over reports of lack of drugs, hospital care
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers are debating the fate of country’s health minister,…
Continue ReadingChina’s premier is on a charm offensive as ASEAN summit protests Beijing’s aggression at sea
By EDNA TARIGAN and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In talks with Southeast Asian leaders Wednesday in the Indonesian capital,…
Continue ReadingThe death toll from fierce storms and flooding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria has risen to 14
ISTANBUL (AP) — Rescue teams in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria have recovered the bodies of seven more people following floods after fierce…
Continue ReadingRussian missile strike on Ukrainian market kills 17 as Blinken announces new $1B aid package
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile tore through an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing 17…
Continue ReadingDavid Grann and Siddhartha Mukherjee are among contenders for a prestigious nonfiction prize
LONDON (AP) — Books about the perilous state of our world, our food and our relationship with technology are in the running for Britain’s leading…
Continue ReadingThis summer was a global record breaker for the highest heat ever measured, meteorologists say
By JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever…
Continue ReadingThe AP Interview: Harris says Trump shouldn’t be an exception for Jan. 6 accountability
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that those responsible for the effort to…
Continue ReadingAn appeals court rejects 2 out of 3 petitions against Nigerian president’s disputed election victory
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — An appeals court in Nigeria has rejected two out of three petitions challenging the…
Continue ReadingA national program in Niger encouraged jihadis to defect. The coup put its future in jeopardy
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — It took months of convincing before the former jihadi commander decided to defect, trading in…
Continue ReadingThe UK says it will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. says it will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization.…
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