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LONDON (AP) — Workers, vacationers and sports fans are facing another day of travel disruption in Britain amid a walkout by thousands of train drivers. About 5,000 drivers staged a 24-hour strike against seven train companies across England on Saturday. It is the latest strike in an increasingly bitter labor dispute on the nation’s railways
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Austrian political leaders are expressing shock over the death of a doctor who had closed her practice after she reported receiving death threats from opponents of COVID-19 restrictions and vaccines. Austrian media reported that the general practitioner was found dead at her practice office in a rural area of northern Austria on
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces have clashed with demonstrators in the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses official buildings. Using ropes, the protesters tore down cement walls leading to the heavily fortified district. Security forces responded by hurling gas canisters and using sound bombs. The protesters are followers of
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A court has upheld a nine-year prison term for one of Taiwan’s richest businesspeople on charges of selling tainted cooking oil. Wei Ying-chung, former chairman of Ting Hsin Oil and Fat Industrial Co., will go to prison for a third time in two cases involving adulterated oil following the ruling by
Continue Reading QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed six separatists in a remote area of the country’s restive southwest in an overnight operation. Authorities said Saturday they launched the operation overnight based on information that the insurgents were riding motorcycles from Kech toward Panjgur. Troops surrounded the insurgents in Hoshab, which triggered
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was “a bit of a test” that showed he needs to slow down and one day possibly retire. Speaking
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s government says it is conducting military exercises off its coast opposite Taiwan. The show of force comes amid tension with Washington over possible plans by a top American lawmaker to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory. The official Xinhua News Agency said “live-fire exercises” were
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis agreed Saturday that the attempt to eliminate Indigenous culture in Canada through a church-run residential school system amounted to a cultural “genocide.” Speaking to reporters while en route home from Canada, Francis said he didn’t use the term during his trip to
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 5-year-old girl’s drawing at a summer camp in Poland’s capital caught the eye of one of her counselors. Why did she use black and white, and not red or pink, to make a heart, Rabbi Ilana Baird asked the child. The girl, sighing heavily, said
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning.
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Friday to relax the arms embargo against the Central African Republic, a disappointment to its government, which sought a complete lifting of the ban on the sale or transfer of weapons and ammunition. The vote was 10-0 with Russia, China
Continue Reading ELMO, Montana (AP) — A wildfire burning in western Montana has spread to 2,000 acres, forcing evacuations and road closures. Montana Right Now reported the fire broke out Friday near the town of Elmo near Flathead Lake. CSKT Fire Officer C.T. Camel told the station that three dozen homes near Elmo were being evacuated. A
Continue Reading By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In one of this year’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, the biggest moments aren’t playing out on the campaign trail. They’re unfolding on social media. For one stunt, Democrat John Fetterman of Pennsylvania rolled out an online petition to get his Republican rival, celebrity heart surgeon
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — International tourism in Mexico has finally surpassed the pre-pandemic levels, after 10.26 million visitors came to the country in the first half of 2022. Mexico’s Tourism Department noted that was 1.5% more than the 10.11 million tourists who arrived in Mexico in the first half of 2019. Mexico’s strongest showing was
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says there should no longer be any doubt that Russia intends to dismantle Ukraine “and dissolve it from the world map entirely.” Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the U.N. Security Council Friday that the United States is seeing growing signs
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — You bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket and have been dreaming of how you’ll spend $1.28 billion. Now it’s time to check your numbers and face reality. Friday’s winning numbers are: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14. The jackpot is the third-largest lottery prize and the biggest in nearly four years. It
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The same stubborn weather system caused intense downpours in St. Louis and Appalachia that led to devastating and in some cases deadly flooding. This week’s floods had the same cause but how the rainfall flooded the areas is different. A stuck weather system, fed by moist hot air from
Continue Reading By DYLAN LOVAN, BRUCE SCHREINER and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor said it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 16 people when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia. More rainstorms are forecast in coming days as rescue crews continue the struggle
Continue Reading By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s prison system said Friday that a delay before an execution was caused because of the time it took to establish an intravenous line to the inmate. In a statement Friday, the state said it tool “adequate time” to establish an intravenous line. Joe Nathan James
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May. There have been widespread outside doubts about the accuracy of
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