Month: August 2023

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, JAE C. HONG and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Families were torn asunder. A community is reeling with grief. More than 100 people have perished and hundreds more remain missing after flames and smoke barreled from the hills and annihilated the historic town of Lahaina. But even in

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British Museum says it has recovered some of the 2,000 items believed to have been stolen by an insider. Chairman of trustees George Osborne acknowledged Saturday that the thefts had damaged the museum’s reputation. He said the 264-year-old institution does not have records of everything in

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A new drone attack on Moscow early Saturday forced a temporary shutdown of all three major airports serving the city, Russian state media reported. Officials blamed Ukraine for what appeared to be the latest of near-daily strikes on the Russian capital and the surrounding region. Kyiv

NASSER NASSER Associated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian news agency has reported that a 20-year-old died of wounds a month after being shot during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank. The WAFA news agency said Ezzedine Kanan, from the town of Jaba near Jenin, was shot in the head

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor OIaf Scholz is vowing that his coalition government will quickly resolve a dispute over child benefits that has marred attempts to put months of damaging public infighting behind it. Center-left Social Democrat Scholz leads a coalition of three parties that are broadly socially liberal. But their approaches to economic and

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Fire department officials say two men have been arrested in different parts of Greece on suspicion of deliberately starting wildfires. One man was arrested on Saturday on the island of Evia for allegedly setting fire to dried grass. The fire department said he confessed to having

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Electricity is being restored in most parts of Kenya, 14 hours after the longest outage in recent memory. There is still no clear explanation for the outage that hit on Friday night, shutting down the country’s main international airport, affecting major hospitals and even the president’s

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) — Fish auction prices at a port south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were mixed amid uncertainty over how seafood consumers will respond to the release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the ocean. The plant, which was damaged in the 2011 earthquake and

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Much of Kenya is still without electricity more than 12 hours after an unexplained power outage Friday night shut down the country’s main international airport and led to a rare public apology by a government minister. Some of Nairobi’s biggest hospitals and the president’s office tell

CHOCTAW, Okla. (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say four people were shot during a high school football game where an officer also fired a gun. Choctaw Police Chief Kelly Marshall says officers responded to a report of a shooting around 10:30 p.m. Friday at a game in Choctaw between Choctaw High School and Del City

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts from four countries rocketed toward the International Space Station on Saturday. They should reach the orbiting lab in their SpaceX capsule Sunday, replacing four astronauts living up there since March. A NASA astronaut was joined on the predawn liftoff from Kennedy Space

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Islamic State extremists have almost doubled the territory they control in the West African country of Mali in less than a year. Their al-Qaida-linked rivals, meanwhile, are also capitalizing on the deadlock and perceived weakness of armed groups that signed a 2015 peace agreement. It’s