Month: October 2023

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same province. The U.S. Geological Survey said the latest quake’s epicenter was about 34 kilometers (21 miles) outside Herat, the provincial capital, and

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Governors receive many gifts. They come from fans and admirers, grateful constituents and appreciative advocates. An Associated Press review of records from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office show the second-term Democrat has received 566 gifts valued at nearly $17,000 since taking office in 2019. Although

By WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEPH KRAUSS and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s 2.3 million civilians faced a deepening struggle for food, water and safety Sunday and braced for a looming invasion a week after Hamas militants launched a deadly assault on Israel. While hundreds of thousands sought to heed Israel’s

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say an unknown assailant stabbed noted Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife to death in their home. The official IRNA news agency report released Sunday quotes a judiciary official as saying that Mehrjhi and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were found dead with knife wounds in their

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will look for new ways to lift Indigenous living standards after voters soundly rejected a proposal to create a new advocacy committee, the deputy prime minister said on Sunday. Every state and mainland territory apart from Australian Capital Territory voted against a proposal to enshrine

By JOCELYN GECKER, CHRISSIE THOMPSON and MICHAEL MELIA AP Education Writers America’s colleges aspire to be places where ideas meet and common ground emerges. As the death toll rises in the Israel-Hamas war, they have become seats of anguish. Many Jewish students and their allies, some with family and friends in Israel, have demanded bold

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Children take their places at folding tables on a church patio several miles from where their school burned down. Plastic tubs hold brand new textbooks quickly shipped from a publisher. Recess is on the resort golf course across the street. The wind-driven wildfire that leveled

By AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — As a young man starting out as a dentist, Nazim Valiyev was forced to flee his home as ethnic violence roiled a separatist region inside Azerbaijan. More than three decades later, with his medical career over after a stroke, the 60-year-old hopes he can return there,

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Frightened by unprecedented violence on the streets and within prisons, Ecuadorians have a universal demand for the president they will choose Sunday — safety. The runoff election in the South American country pits an heir to a banana empire, Daniel Noboa, and an attorney, Luisa

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli communities is triggering painful memories of a calamity of a far greater scale: the Holocaust. Long seen as a catastrophe so horrific nothing else

DALLAS (AP) — Police in Dallas say three people were injured in a shooting resulting in the evacuation of the State Fair of Texas. The Dallas Police Department says officers responded to a report of a shooting in the fair’s food court at about 7:45 p.m. Saturday. Police say investigators determined one man fired at