Month: February 2023

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A new, 6.4 magnitude earthquake has jolted Turkey’s Hatay province which was devastated by a massive tremor two weeks ago. The new quake comes as the Turkish disaster management agency, AFAD, has raised the number of confirmed fatalities from the earthquake in Turkey to 41,156. That increases the overall death toll

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A trial looking into bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun. The former head of advertising company ADK, Shinichi Uneo, is accused of paying nearly 15 million yen, or $110,000, to Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive at ad giant Dentsu. Takahashi was powerful in selecting

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person was taken into custody Thursday in connection with the shootings of two Jewish men outside synagogues in Los Angeles this week that investigators believe were hate crimes, police said. The violence set off fear among the city’s Jewish community as police increased patrols around houses of worship and officials

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency has aborted the launch of the first of its new flagship series H3 rockets after booster engines failed to ignite. The rocket was carrying an observation satellite also fitted with an experimental infrared sensor that could detect missile launches. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top military official insists the country’s soldiers didn’t commit any massacres during the Vietnam War and has indicated the government will appeal a ruling that ordered compensation for a Vietnamese woman who lost several relatives to a shooting rampage blamed on South Korean

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice protests that turned downtown Portland into a battleground. A violent breach of the state Capitol. Clashes between gun-toting right-wingers and leftist militants. Over the past decade, Oregon experienced the sixth-highest number

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The death toll from New Zealand’s cyclone has reached eight with more than 4,500 people still unaccounted for four days after the nation’s most destructive weather event in decades brought widespread flooding, landslides and power outages. Cyclone Gabrielle struck the country’s north on Monday and the level of damage has

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers were scheduled to make their first court appearance Friday on murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III, Justin Smith and their lawyers were expected to

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City’s hosting of this weekend’s NBA All-Star game for the first time in three decades is giving Utah another opportunity to try to change long-held notions that the state is odd or peculiar. It’s building on a yearslong push prioritized by influential business