Month: June 2022

By ERIC GAY and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Forty-six people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio in the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including

By ZEKE MILLER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press ELMAU, Germany (AP) — The Group of Seven on Tuesday was wrapping up a summit intended to send a strong signal of long-term commitment to Ukraine’s future, ensuring that Russia pays a higher price for its invasion while also attempting to alleviate a global hunger crisis and

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Unions countries have approved extending the use of COVID-19 certificates by one year until the end of June 2023. Cases of the deadly virus have started to grow again ahead of the summer holiday season. Aimed at facilitating travel across the 27-nation bloc during the pandemic, the certificates entered into force

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia appears to have defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the U.S. and its allies are taking aim at the former Soviet Union’s second largest export industry after energy — gold. On Tuesday, the Group of Seven nations

SINTRA, Portugal (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July and September but will keep its options open to “stamp out” inflation if it surges faster than expected. In a speech Tuesday opening an ECB forum on central

GENEVA (AP) — Two senior Libyan officials from the country’s rival camps have begun talks on constitutional arrangements for elections. Tuesday’s meeting is the latest U.N. effort to bridge gaps between the country’s rivals.  The speaker of the country’s east-based parliament and the head of the government’s Supreme Council of State, based in the west,

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has stressed that her country’s security pact with the U.K. and the U.S. will not create nuclear weapons, and says she hopes concerns that it may spark a regional arms race will dissipate over time. Wong told reporters after meeting with her Malaysian counterpart that: “We

By SYLVIAI HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bid to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal he signed with the European Union has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament. Lawmakers voted 295 to 221 late Monday to give initial approval to a bill allowing U.K. officials to rewrite

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is holding a surprise hearing on Tuesday with an unidentified witness, cloaking the last-minute proceedings in extraordinary secrecy and raising expectations for new bombshells in the sweeping investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its people are working intensively to protect crops and equipment from potential damage after days of heavy rainfall. South Korea says heavy rain has been falling in the North since Sunday. Observers worry any flooding could aggravate economic hardships amid North Korea’s