Australia boosting aid to Papua New Guinea for landslide recovery and security
By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Australia will provide a further $1.3 million to support reconstruction efforts in…
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Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting resettlement. Their future is unclear
By DITA ALANGKARA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press TANJUNGPINANG, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of refugees are living in community housing on an…
Continue ReadingMacron and African leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities
By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has joined African leaders to kick off a planned…
Continue ReadingClimate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this…
Continue ReadingRussia obliterates Ukraine’s front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network
By LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked…
Continue ReadingBank of England keeps main interest rate at 16-year high of 5.25% despite inflation fall
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25%, even though inflation…
Continue ReadingStock market today: Asian shares mostly decline as Nvidia weighs on Wall Street
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Friday after a retreat on Wall Street, where a drop in Nvidia stock…
Continue ReadingTropical Storm Alberto dissipates over central Mexico after heavy rains killed 4
By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press TAMPICO, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Alberto, the season’s first named storm, has weakened as it moves inland…
Continue ReadingIllegally brewed liquor kills at least 34 with dozens hospitalized in southern India
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 34 people have died and dozens hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil…
Continue ReadingMuch of New Zealand’s far north is without power after a transmission tower fell over
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Much of the northernmost part of New Zealand is without power after a…
Continue ReadingCan a marriage survive a gender transition? Yes, and even thrive. How these couples make it work
By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Marissa Lasoff-Santos and the person she would marry quickly fell head over heels in love. Lasoff-Santos was a gay…
Continue ReadingThe fate of the latest cease-fire proposal hinges on Netanyahu and Hamas’ leader in Gaza
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on two men:…
Continue ReadingPutin signs deals with Vietnam in bid to shore up ties in Asia to offset Moscow’s growing isolation
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed at least a dozen deals with his Vietnamese…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea will consider supplying arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea sign strategic pact
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Thursday that it would consider sending arms to Ukraine, a major…
Continue ReadingProbe finds carelessness caused Jewish student group’s omission from New Jersey high school yearbook
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press An investigation into how and why a Jewish student group was erased from a New Jersey high school yearbook has…
Continue ReadingFormer Peruvian soldiers get prison in rapes of teenagers during country’s armed conflict
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ten men have been convicted in Peru for raping nine teenagers while serving in the military during the country’s armed conflict…
Continue ReadingShooting in Philadelphia wounds 7 people, police say
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say seven people have been wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia. It happened just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in North…
Continue ReadingNew Petrobras chief is sworn in as market worries Brazil’s government will have heavier hand
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Magda Chambriard has been sworn in as the head of Brazil’s state-run oil giant…
Continue ReadingLibyans want an end to country’s divisions and feuding politicians to hold elections, UN envoy says
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Libyans from rival regions and all walks of life are fed up with the country’s…
Continue ReadingPower outage leaves millions of Ecuadorians in the dark after transmission line fails
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A failure in an energy transmission line on Wednesday produced an unexpected blackout throughout Ecuador, the government…
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