Month: July 2022

By DAVID KOENIG and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions, but their share is sure to grow as more people travel in coming years. That has the aviation industry facing the prospect of tighter environmental regulations and higher costs. At Monday’s opening of a

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-ruled government and its opponents are marking the 75th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Scattered pro-democracy rallies were held Tuesday in several cities across the country commemorating Aung San, six Cabinet colleagues and two other

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says at least 31 people have been injured after an earthquake shook a remote area of eastern Afghanistan. Abdul Wahid Rayan, the director of the Taliban news agency Bakhtar, said Tuesday that the quake shook the region a day earlier. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a magnitude

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have called off a strike that ran for 15 days and caused major disruption, after reaching an agreement with management.   SAS CEO Anko van der Werff said the parties had agreed on an agreement covering the next five-and-a-half years that guarantees both cost

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister and acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe faces two rivals in a parliamentary vote on who will succeed the ousted leader who fled the country last week. Wickremesinghe is backed by members of the fragmented ruling coalition but his candidacy is opposed by

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Britain woke from the country’s warmest-ever night on Tuesday and braced for a day when temperatures are forecast to hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), as a heat wave scorching Europe wallops a country more used to mild weather

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya. They say the crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a stopped truck on a highway linking the capital of Cairo to the

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for 13 passengers from a boat that sank in bad weather and high waves while traveling between Indonesian islands. The boat sank Monday night in the Maluku Islands with 77 people on board. Rescue officials say 64 survivors have been found. Rubber boats, speedboats and a local longboat

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai lawmakers have begun a no-confidence debate targeting Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and 10 of his Cabinet members. The opposition is accusing them of corruption and economic mismanagement. This is the fourth and likely final no-confidence vote that Prayuth’s government faces before its four-year term ends next

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is starting the long enlargement process that aims to lead to the Albania and North Macedonia joining the bloc. Any expansion beyond the current 27 EU member states is likely to be many years off, and both nations were already considered potential candidates 19 years ago. Despite the stalling,

BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion after a partial building collapse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin has left three people missing and 11 injured. The event remains under investigation, but it points to the deterioration of infrastructure following more than three decades of breakneck economic growth. That development has vastly boosted living