Election Day saw few major problems, despite new voting laws
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into this year’s midterms, voting rights groups were concerned…
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Amid the war ruins in Ukraine, Banksy seeds art
BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the ruins of war, the flowerings of art. A delicate painting of a gymnast doing a handstand has popped up on the…
Continue ReadingS Korea, Japan seek better ties amid NKorea missile tensions
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea and Japan have agreed to keep up efforts to resolve their…
Continue ReadingAntitrust battle over iPhone app store goes to appeals court
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is heading into a courtroom faceoff against the company behind the popular…
Continue ReadingBomb rocks avenue in heart of Istanbul; 6 dead, dozens hurt
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A bomb rocked a bustling pedestrian avenue in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday, killing six…
Continue ReadingInvestigation underway over midair crash at Dallas air show
By JUAN A. LOZANO, JOSH FUNK and LM OTERO Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A national transportation official probing the cause of a midair crash of…
Continue ReadingThousands protest in support of public health care in Madrid
MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of public health workers and their supporters are demonstrating in the Spanish capital to demand more staff in…
Continue ReadingSlovenia elects first woman president in a runoff vote
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar won a runoff Sunday to become…
Continue ReadingFrance: Body found in rubble of collapsed building
PARIS (AP) — French firefighters in the northern city of Lille say they have found a body under the rubble of a four-story building that collapsed.…
Continue ReadingIsrael’s Netanyahu officially tapped to form government
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s president has officially tapped former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to…
Continue ReadingSwedish cyclist pedals to Egypt to raise climate awareness
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — She has pedaled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm…
Continue ReadingUK’s self-billed ‘Scrooge’ promises tax rises, spending cuts
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief, Jeremy Hunt, has warned that a spending crunch and tax increases are on their way as he bids to fill the…
Continue ReadingPope lunches with poor, denounces ‘sirens of populism’
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ate lunch with hundreds of refugees, poor and homeless people on Sunday as he called…
Continue ReadingKherson celebrates Russian exit yet faces huge rebuilding
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Residents of Kherson celebrated the end of Russia’s eight-month occupation for the…
Continue ReadingUS Rhodes scholars chosen to begin Oxford studies in 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new group of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. has been chosen for the prestigious academic program in a selection process that was…
Continue ReadingArtemisia Gentileschi’s 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled
By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and…
Continue ReadingClimate reshapes life for tenacious gannets on Quebec isle
By CALVIN WOODWARD, LYNN BERRY, CAROLYN KASTER and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press PERCE, Quebec (AP) — Scientists are tracking the threats to…
Continue ReadingCocoa farmers fear climate change lowering crop production
By HILAIRE ZON Associated Press KOREAGUI, Ivory Coast (AP) — For more than 40 years, Jean Baptiste Saleyo has farmed cocoa on several acres of his…
Continue ReadingFaithful mates, hot tempers form primal life for gannets
By CALVIN WOODWARD, CAROLYN KASTER and LYNN BERRY Associated Press PERCE, Quebec (AP) — Northern gannets share two maxims familiar to humans:…
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia has ‘green vision’ at COP27, critics unmoved
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Hydrogen cars and vehicles that capture their tailpipe pollutants. Computer mice…
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