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Month: November 2023

The District of Columbia is combating car thefts and carjackings with dashcams and AirTags

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government and police in the nation’s capital are handing out tracking devices and dashboard cameras to local drivers to help stem rising crime rates. The parallel initiatives are part of an anti-crime offensive launched by the Metropolitan Police Department and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s government. Violent crimes

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A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is suspected of killing more than 150 and is leaving many terrified

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is suspected of killing more than 150 people and infecting more than 8,000. The virulent bacterial disease is striking fear in many in the southern African country who live in impoverished and neglected areas where sanitation conditions are poor and local

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Women make up more than half of 22 ministers in new Cabinet of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s reelected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says women will hold 12 of the 22 posts in his new government. Key posts remain unchanged with Nadia Calviño in economy, Jose Manuel Albares in foreign affairs and Margarita Robles in defense. Sánchez’s Socialist party will hold 17 ministries and the leftist Sumar coalition

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German security officials say they foiled an alleged far-right attack by an 18-year-old

BERLIN (AP) — An 18-year-old right-wing extremist has been arrested by special forces in central Germany on suspicion that he was planning a “serious act of violence endangering the state.” Security officials said Monday that the man, whose identity was not given in line with German privacy rules, is accused of having an “established violent,

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UK leader Rishi Sunak urges world to use AI and science to end malnutrition

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change. Ministers, diplomats and philanthropists from about 20 countries attended a one-day Global Food Security Summit

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Arguments on putting Trump’s gag order back in place are before an appeals court

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is hearing arguments Monday on whether to reinstate a gag order against Donald Trump in the federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Austin, llega a Kyiv para reunirse con líderes ucranianos

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Lloyd Austin, llegó a Kiyv este lunes para entablar conversaciones de alto nivel con los dirigentes ucranianos, según un comunicado de prensa del Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos. “El secretario de Defensa, Lloyd J. Austin III, viajó a Ucrania hoy [lunes] para reunirse

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