Month: June 2022

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has launched its first domestically built space rocket in the second attempt after an earlier liftoff failed to place the payload into orbit. A successful launch would boost South Korea’s growing space ambitions but also prove it has the capability to build a

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are closing the books on the pandemic-delayed Games. The organizing committee is to dissolve by the end of the month. The final cost is being placed at 1.42 trillion Japanese yen. This is between $10.5 billion and $13 billion. The exact

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing coalition government will fast-track a bill this week to dissolve parliament, setting up the country for its fifth elections in three years, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday. The development comes after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Monday that he would disband his alliance

By The Associated Press It’s not a summer heat wave that’s making European leaders and businesses sweat. It’s fear that Russia’s manipulation of natural gas supplies will lead to an economic and political crisis next winter. Or, in the worst case, even sooner. Here are key things to know about the energy pressure game over

DANIEL NIEMANN and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — When Syrian refugee Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Germany in 2015, the first thing he saw when he stepped out of the train in Cologne was the city’s majestic cathedral. Alkhudr, 42, became so fascinated by the famous Gothic landmark on the Rhine river with

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship has fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The incident on Monday involving the Guard and the Navy comes as tensions

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As was his habit before each flight, the veteran Ukrainian army pilot ran a hand along the fuselage of his Mi-8 helicopter, caressing the heavy transporter’s metal skin to bring luck to him and his crew. They would need it. Their destination —

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s most powerful politician, conservative ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says he has given up his role as a deputy prime minister in the government. He said he made the move to focus on the party and upcoming elections. The move by Kaczynski was expected. His government role focused on security

By OMAR SANADIKI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — One, two, three, stop. Five, six, seven, stop: A group of young Syrian men and women step, sway and twirl to the backdrop of salsa music, dancing their worries away. For an hour a week in a Damascus studio, their instructor Adnan Mohammed, 42, teaches a

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s leader has told the African Union that the continent has been “taken hostage” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid catastrophically rising food prices. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s closed-door speech Monday followed weeks of requests for him to address African nations. Many of them retain close ties