Month: November 2023

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s highest court has dismissed an appeal by the country’s largest Islamist party seeking to overturn a 2013 ruling that barred it from participating in elections for violating the constitutional provision of secularism Bangladesh is set to hold its next national elections on Jan. 7. The

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Tens of thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s main religious political party have rallied in the eastern city of Lahore against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza and what it says is the world’s failure to protect Gazans. Earlier this month Jamaat-e-Islami also held massive rallies in the port city of Karachi

By JILL COLVIN and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Donald Trump will return to the U.S.-Mexico border for a visit Sunday as he promotes a hard-line immigration agenda that would be far more expansive than the policies he pursued during his first term as president. Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The statewide battles over abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line: the commitment to democracy. As voters in state after state affirm their support for abortion rights, opponents are acting with

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones targeted the Ukrainian capital Sunday as the British Defense Ministry said there were “few immediate prospects” for change along the Ukrainian front line as the war enters its second winter. Russia launched 20 Iranian-made Shahed drones overnight, 15 of which were shot down by Ukrainian forces, according to Kyiv’s

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ends nearly every speech by saying he’s “never been more optimistic” about the country’s direction. But lately he also has begun painting a vision of a catastrophic future for the United States — that is, if Donald Trump returns to the

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least 30 premature babies were evacuated from Gaza’s main hospital on Sunday and will be transferred to Egypt, Palestinian health officials said, as scores of other critically wounded patients remained stranded there days after Israeli forces entered the compound. The

By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Voters in Argentina were heading to the polls Sunday in a presidential runoff election that will determine whether South America’s second-largest economy will take a rightward shift. Populist Javier Milei, an upstart candidate who got his start as a television talking head,

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has reached its lowest point in 2 1/2 years. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s. And the U.S. economy has repeatedly defied predictions of a coming recession. Yet according to a raft of polls and surveys, most

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect in Tennessee died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot while on the run early Sunday after he allegedly killed four and seriously injured a fifth victim during a deadly outbreak of domestic violence Saturday night, police said. Officers found Mavis Christian Jr., 52, in his car during a manhunt following

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Gale-force winds and heavy rain and snow have hit large parts of Bulgaria, claiming the lives of two people and causing severe damage in towns and villages. Residents in eastern Bulgaria said they never had experienced weather as severe as Sunday’s storm. A state of emergency was declared in the Black

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a roadside bomb has killed three people in the insurgency-hit southwestern Baluchistan province. The bomb was planted Sunday on a dirt road in the Balgatar area of Kech district and was detonated remotely, authorities said. Three men, two of whom were brothers, were killed while on their way

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least 30 premature babies were evacuated from Gaza’s main hospital on Sunday and will be transferred to facilities in Egypt, the territory’s Health Ministry said. Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the ministry, confirmed the evacuation in a phone call with

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee have launched a manhunt for a suspect believed to have fatally shot three women and a teenage girl and critically wounded another teen girl at three separate locations during a deadly outbreak of domestic violence Saturday night. Memphis Police Department officers responded to a report of a shooting