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Month: October 2023

Cambodia opens a new airport to serve Angkor Wat as it seeks to boost tourist arrivals

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Commercial operations have begun at Cambodia’s newest and biggest airport, designed to serve as an upgraded gateway to the country’s major tourist attraction, the centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex in the northwestern province of Siem Reap. The Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport was built at a

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Judge Chutkan holds hearing over proposed gag order in Trump’s US election interference case

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump are in court in Washington on Monday as a judge considers a proposed gag order aimed at reining in the former president’s diatribes against likely witnesses and others in his 2020 election interference case

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Why some worry about the rise of private agency health-care staffing firms in Canada

By Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca writer and Avis Favaro, CTV National News Medical Correspondent Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — There were more than 41,955 job postings across Canada for nurses in the first quarter of 2023, missing manpower that is affecting hospital staffing, closing rural ERs and fuelling

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Humanitarian aid is stuck at Gaza-Egypt border as Israeli siege strains hospitals, water supply

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Truckloads of aid idled at Egypt’s border with Gaza as residents and humanitarian groups pleaded Monday for water, food and fuel for dying generators, saying the tiny Palestinian territory sealed off by Israel after last week’s rampage by Hamas was

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Poles vote in huge numbers for the centrist opposition after 8 years of nationalist rule

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The majority of voters in Poland’s general election supported opposition parties that promised to reverse democratic backsliding and repair the nation’s relationship with allies, including the European Union and Ukraine, according to projections Monday. After a bitter and emotional campaign, turnout was projected

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Kim Ng, MLB’s 1st female GM, is leaving the Miami Marlins after making the playoffs in 3rd season

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins have announced Kim Ng is leaving the team after three seasons as general manager. The 54-year-old Ng became the majors’ highest-ranking woman in baseball operations and the first female GM in the four major North American professional sports leagues in a groundbreaking hire in November 2020. The Marlins exercised

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