Month: January 2024

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine army says troops killed nine suspected Muslim militants in the volatile south, including two key suspects in a bomb attack last month that left four Christian worshippers dead. Four army scout rangers were slightly wounded in Thursday’s operation against the Dawlah Islamiyah, a small outfit

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of her death on Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following. Many of the festivities are taking place in and around the town of Kildare, where Brigid founded a prestigious abbey

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Radio stations across Haiti got jammed with calls just hours after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. Many callers wondered and demanded: What’s next? Few know. Uncertainty and

By ALON BERNSTEIN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Gad Partok was 10 years old in 1942 when Nazis stormed his street in the coastal Tunisian town of Nabeul. He saw them going door to door, hauling out his neighbors, shooting them and burning down their homes. Like so many Jews who

By TERRY CHEA Associated Press PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu. Following government rules, Weber’s company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire flock of egg-laying hens — 550,000 birds — to prevent the disease from infecting other farms

By DAVID KLEPPER and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Taiwan recently repelled a wave of disinformation seeking to undermine their democracy ahead of the election earlier this month. In doing so, the island can offer lessons to the U.S. and other nations holding their own elections amid the threat of foreign

By MEG KINNARD and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden doesn’t need to worry about his prospects in South Carolina’s Democratic primary next week. He’s got that locked up. He also knows he’s not likely to win the solidly red state come November. It hasn’t voted for a Democrat since 1976.

By CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI Associated Press OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths

MIAMI (AP) — The world’s largest cruise ship is set to begin its maiden voyage Saturday as it gets underway from the Port of Miami. Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, which runs nearly 1,200 feet (365 meters) from bow to stern, is roughly as long as the Empire State Building is high: 1,250 feet