Month: October 2021

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations and the United States have urged Sudan’s top generals to show restraint and avoid confrontation as pro-democracy protesters began pouring into the streets against a military coup earlier this week. The U.N. envoy for Sudan met with the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says France’s dispute with Britain over fishing rights is a test of the U.K.’s credibility in a post-Brexit world. France is angry over restrictions on permits to fish in British waters, and has threatened to block British boats and tighten checks on U.K. vessels starting Tuesday. Ahead of

By NICOLE WINFIELD and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press ROME (AP) — The leaders of the world’s economic powers are gathering for the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic. Italian Premier Mario Draghi is welcoming the Group of 20 heads of state to Rome’s Nuvola cloud-like convention center in the Fascist-era EUR neighborhood. Climate change,

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the U..N climate conference beginning Sunday. It scares him — even though he’s been vaccinated and is only 29. But the campaigner from the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network is determined

By TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle brandished small arms and fired on a broadcast journalist in his car in the Afghan capital of Kabul, lightly wounding him. A Taliban spokesperson says the journalist for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting survived the late Friday night attack. He says: “We

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has gotten much hotter and more dangerous. The first big climate negotiations were in 1992. The world has warmed more in the past 29 years than in the previous 110

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N.‘s special envoy for Sudan has met with the powerful leader of a Sudanese paramilitary force, urging him to allow peaceful protests and avoid confrontation in the wake of a military coup earlier this week. He said on Twitter late Friday that he met with the

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Memorials large and small, ephemeral and epic have cropped up across the United States in the nearly two years since the coronavirus pandemic started. In New Jersey, one woman’s simple seaside memorial to honor her late brother has grown to honor more than 4,000 lost souls. In Los Angeles, a

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Volunteers paint and repaint red and pink hearts on the 500-meter-long memorial wall that honors the at least 140,000 people killed by COVID-19 in Britain. The memorial was established in March by the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and campaign group Led by Donkeys as a visual