Month: August 2022

By YURAS KARMANAU and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a growing challenge to Russia’s grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets. The spreading resistance has eroded Kremlin control

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Tarek Younes was once solidly middle class and felt he helped contribute to society as an inspector in the Lebanese government’s consumer protection agency. But the country’s economic free-fall has eroded his income and civic pride. In his desperation, Younes has joined tens of thousands of public

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Angel Hope looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges. But on this test — a University of Wisconsin exam that measures what new students learned in high school — all he

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki is paying tribute to the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing 77 years ago Tuesday. The mayor says Russia’s war on Ukraine showed the world that another nuclear attack is “a tangible and present crisis.” Mayor Tomihisa Taue, in his speech at the Nagasaki Peace Park,

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has asked China to defer a port call of a scientific research ship after security concerns were reportedly raised by neighboring India. The Foreign Ministry ministry said in a statement that the Chinese vessel was scheduled to arrive at southern Hambantota port on

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea’s capital region, turning Seoul’s streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations. At least eight people were killed — some by drowning in their homes — and seven others were missing, while

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos has been laid to rest in a state funeral. Ramos was hailed as an ex-general who backed and then helped oust a dictatorship. He became a defender of democracy and can-do reformist in his poverty-wracked country. Ramos died July 31 at

By STEFANIE DAZIO and MARIAM FAM Associated Press First was the killing of a Muslim man from Afghanistan late last year. Then came two more slayings in the last two weeks — men from Pakistan who attended the same mosque in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Those deaths were followed Friday by the city’s fourth homicide of

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After Russia invaded Ukraine last February, the European Union moved to block RT and Sputnik, two of the Kremlin’s top channels for spreading propaganda and misinformation about the war. Nearly six months later, the number of sites pushing that same content has exploded as Russia found ways