Month: February 2023

By The Associated Press For Russia, it’s been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes. Now, on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing for

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi’s state gas company expects to raise up to $2 billion by selling 4% of its shares in an initial public offering. The company said Thursday that the price range for the previously announced sale of over 3 billion shares has been set at 2.25 to 2.34 Emirati

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014. Bird flu normally spreads in poultry and most of the 870 human cases worldwide in the past few decades have involved direct contact with infected

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s president has urged the country’s more than 2 million refugees to return home in his first meeting with displaced people since civil war erupted almost a decade ago. The appeal comes as the country prepares to hold its first elections since gaining independence

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than a year, killing dozens of civilians and security officers in the deserts of central Syria, even as people of northern Syria have been digging out of the wreckage from the region’s devastating earthquake. The

By MICHAEL TARM and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly is set to learn whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison when a federal judge sentences him Thursday on convictions of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex. Prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the sentencing hearing

By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm that trapped drivers on icy roads, blacked out hundreds of thousands of homes, grounded airplanes and closed schools across much of the country was poised to slam California Thursday. “We are in for a VERY busy week!” the National

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Thursday following Wall Street’s biggest one-day decline in two months after notes from a Federal Reserve meeting showed officials expect to keep U.S. interest rates high to fight stubborn inflation. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. Japanese markets were closed for a