House advances giant Texas storm surge project in water bill
By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and…
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Bakery bombing in southwest Pakistan kills 1, wounds 6
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a bomb exploded in a bakery in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Baluchistan province killing at least one…
Continue Reading3 dead, several missing after explosion, fire on Jersey
LONDON (AP) — Police on the Channel Island of Jersey say an explosion and fire in an apartment building has killed at least three people and left…
Continue ReadingCourt acquits Pakistan’s interior minister in drug case
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A defense lawyer says a special court for narcotics cases in Pakistan has acquitted the country’s interior minister of…
Continue ReadingRussia grinds on in eastern Ukraine; Bakhmut ‘destroyed’
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have turned the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut into ruins, President…
Continue ReadingGermany: Suspect dead after killing mother, taking hostages
BERLIN (AP) — German police said Saturday that a man suspected of killing his mother and later taking two people hostage in the eastern city of…
Continue ReadingBangladesh opposition rallies to demand PM quit before polls
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of opposition supporters have rallied in Bangladesh’s capital to…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: What’s at stake in Turkey’s new Syria escalation
By BASSEM MROUE and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and…
Continue ReadingNew Japan law aims at Unification Church fundraising abuses
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by…
Continue ReadingLos Angeles council member involved in fight with activist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles City Council member embroiled in a scandal over racist remarks and an activist fought at a Friday night holiday…
Continue ReadingUkraine utility crews adapt, overcome after Russian strikes
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Over the grinding wail of a chainsaw pruning trees, Oleh Braharnyk recalls how his crew…
Continue ReadingAfghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Batool Haidari used to be a prominent professor of sexology at a Kabul university before the…
Continue ReadingUkrainian youth choir defies war with messages of freedom
By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — From a dank Kyiv bomb shelter to the bright stage lights of Europe’s theaters, a…
Continue ReadingPhilippines protesters decry alleged injustices under Marcos
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched in the Philippine capital protesting what they say is a rising number of extrajudicial…
Continue ReadingKentucky remembers tornado victims as rebuilding continues
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Chris Bullock has a lot to be grateful for as she decorates her new home for Christmas.…
Continue ReadingRural voters ‘in the trenches’ on climate, leery of Biden
By NUHA DOLBY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Drought in California meant Raquel Krach, a rice farmer and graduate student in the Sacramento…
Continue ReadingSinema party switch highlights 2024 obstacles for Democrats
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Less than three days after Democrats celebrated victory in the final Senate contest of the…
Continue ReadingPeru’s ex-president faced bigotry for impoverished past
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — When Pedro Castillo won Peru’s presidency last year, it was celebrated as a victory by…
Continue ReadingStrong winds, up to 4 feet of snow forecast in Sierra Nevada
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Another winter storm packing heavy snow and powerful winds was moving into the northern Sierra…
Continue ReadingHong Kong jails pro-democracy media tycoon over fraud
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced a pro-democracy media tycoon to five years and nine months in prison…
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