Month: July 2022

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A protest in the North Macedonian capital over a proposal to break the deadlock in the country’s efforts to join the European Union left 47 police officers injured, police said. The injuries occurred after a group of mostly young people broke off from the main

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press EAST LONDON, South Africa (AP) — More than a thousand grieving family and community members are attending the funeral in South Africa’s East London for 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a nightclub nearly two weeks ago. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is to give the eulogy

PARIS (AP) — A strike by railway workers demanding higher pay amid cost of living increases is interrupting train services in France. National railway company SNCF said about one high-speed train in four was canceled on Wednesday. It says regional services such as suburban trains in the Paris region are experiencing disruptions. International lines, including

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers will decide Wednesday whether fossil gas and nuclear energies can be included in the EU’s list of sustainable activities. It is set to be a knife-edge vote that targets climate change but is heavily influenced by the war in Ukraine. The executive

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prosecutors say an 18-year-old man who attacked and killed two teachers with a knife and an ax at a high school in southern Sweden in March has been charged with two counts of murder. The man, who was a student at the school in Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city, was arrested at

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official says Russian shelling has killed five civilians over the past 24 hours and wounded 21 more in the eastern Donetsk province, where Russia has stepped up its offensive in recent days. Donetsk’s governor said Wednesday that two people were killed in Avdiivka, one in Sloviansk, one in Krasnohorivka,

BERLIN (AP) — Economists say current measures aren’t enough to achieve Germany’s targets for phasing out fossil fuels and ramping up renewable energy by 2030. In a report published Wednesday, the German Institute for Economic Research calculated that the current roll-out of electric vehicles, solar and wind energy won’t be fast enough to reach those

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has shot and killed a Palestinian man during an arrest raid near the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The army said Wednesday that during one of a series of raids carried out across the Palestinian territory, its troops fired at a suspect who attempted

By CHINEDU ASADU and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities have announced that the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has died. Nigerian Mohammad Barkindo died late Tuesday, a spokesman for Nigeria’s petroleum ministry told The Associated Press. The reason for his death was not immediately known. Barkindo, a

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers will decide Wednesday whether fossil gas and nuclear energies can be included in the EU’s list of sustainable activities. It is set to be a cliff-edge vote that targets climate change but is heavily influenced by the war in Ukraine. The executive

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A defiant British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling to stay in power on Wednesday after his government was rocked by the resignation of two top ministers, who said they could no longer serve under his scandal-tarred leadership. His first challenge is getting through