By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the wreckage. One man called his wife from underneath the rubble of
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles equipped with the company’s Autopilot partially automated driving system. Investigators with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concerns about
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Walt Disney Co. moved to a loss in its second quarter, hampered by restructuring and impairment charges, but its adjusted profit topped expectations and its streaming business turned a profit. Theme parks also continued to do well. While Disney said Tuesday that it foresees its streaming business softening
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The FBI has laid out a detailed case showing why agents believe a Florida man is behind his estranged wife’s disappearance in Spain, but gave no indication about what they believe happened to her. Court documents released late Monday show agents believe David Knezevich resembles
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — At least six people have died and 48 so far unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday afternoon in the South African city of George, officials said Tuesday. Rescue missions remain underway, and 26 people have been removed from the rubble since the building collapsed in the Western
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO’s air war over Kosovo. U.S. jets dropped five bombs on the Chinese Embassy
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog are still negotiating over how to implement a deal struck last year to expand inspections of the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing atomic program, officials said Tuesday. The acknowledgment by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s leader Rafael Mariano Grossi shows the
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s highest court on Tuesday ruled to dismiss part of a law requiring people to undergo gender-affirmation surgery, including sterilization, in order to officially change their gender. The Constitutional Court said Tuesday the requirements are “unconstitutional” and “in conflict with the fundamental right of trans people to have protected their
Continue ReadingBy CARLY FLANDRO of Idaho Education News and VALERIA OLIVARES of The Dallas Morning News NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — When Christina Zimmerman returned to teaching last year after maternity leave, she grappled with postpartum depression that she says could have led to quitting her job. But her school’s onsite day care made all the difference,
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — An American soldier arrested in Russia on suspicion of theft will be detained for two months, a Russian district court said Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black will be in detention until July 2, the Pervomaisky District Court of Vladivostok ruled. Black is accused of “committing secret theft of
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge. The foray came after
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By Christian Edwards, Lauren Kent, Clare Sebastian and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Putin has formally begun his fifth term as Russia’s president in a carefully choreographed inauguration ceremony, in a country he has shaped in his image after first taking office nearly a quarter of a century ago. Putin won Russia’s stage-managed election
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish government official says that bugging devices were detected in a room where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was scheduled to meet with his Cabinet ministers. The government members were meeting in a southwestern Polish city where Tusk was attending an economic conference. The spokesperson for the head of Poland’s
Continue ReadingTOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president is hosting China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings. The trip comes after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Israeli forces took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the Gaza Strip, pressing on with an offensive in the southern city as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain precarious. The incursion comes after the militant group on Monday said it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal. Israel insisted the
Continue ReadingBy ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that eliminates presidential elections, a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family’s six-decade-long rule. Under the new legislation, parliament will have the power to choose the president, doing away with direct elections.
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two WNBA players were among a dozen Americans that opted to play in Russia this past offseason, a decision New York Liberty forward Kayla Thornton said raised a few eyebrows following Brittney Griner’s incarceration in 2022. “I had a lot of people trying to question
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — EU countries have approved a plan worth 6 billion euros ($6.45 billion) to support Western Balkan states aimed at accelerating reforms and economic growth in the region, as they seek future membership in the bloc. The Council of the European Union on Tuesday said the plan, which covers the period from 2024
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indian voters across 93 constituencies were casting ballots on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric in incendiary speeches that have targeted the Muslim minority. In recent campaign rallies, Modi has called
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top prosecutor’s office says authorities are searching the European Parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels. The search was underway on Tuesday. Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party’s top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been under scrutiny after one
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