By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two ballistic missiles at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea. The attack happened Thursday west of Hodeida, a port city in Yemen long held by the rebels. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British military group overseeing Mideast waterways,
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors created chaos outside the European Union’s headquarters on Thursday, demanding leaders at an EU summit provide relief from rising prices and bureaucracy. Farmers pelted police in the Belgian capital with firecrackers, eggs and beer bottles through thick smoke
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON and EMILIO MORENATTI The Associated Press GUALBA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of some 6 million people, including the city of Barcelona. But thousands of people who live in villages and towns in the Catalan countryside have already been in full-blown
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Several thousand people from a Russia-friendly party have protested in front of Moldova’s parliament building to demand the resignation of the pro-Western government. The rally by the Revival Party against the governing Party of Action and Solidarity called for early elections and for
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Maudy Adkinson Johnson remembers walking across cow fields and busy roads as a child to get to her one-room schoolhouse in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It was the 1950s, and Johnson said the Lee-Buckner School was teaching her how to read, write and do math problems. She was also making friends
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Deutsche Bank says it would cut 3,500 jobs as part of efforts to slash costs by about $2.7 billion through next year. Germany’s largest lender said Thursday that it would seek to streamline its marketing network and computer systems and software as it seeks to cut costs. The bank says the
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months’ detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The pigeon’s ordeal began in May when it was captured near a port in Mumbai with two rings tied to its legs, carrying words that
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and gas prices, which had surged the year before in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement Thursday, Shell said its post-tax earnings fell 29%, to $28.3 billion from the previous
Continue ReadingCNN By Curt Devine, Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Days before a pivotal election in Slovakia to determine who would lead the country, a damning audio recording spread online in which one of the top candidates seemingly boasted about how he’d rigged the election. And if that wasn’t bad enough, his voice
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A woman and her two young daughters are in a hospital being treated for injuries after a man threw a corrosive substance at them in south London. Police said a manhunt is underway to find the suspect, who they believe is known to the 31-year-old woman. The Metropolitan Police said officers received
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Thursday sought to capitalize on last week’s high-profile endorsement from the United Auto Workers, heading to Michigan to meet with members of the union as he battles Donald Trump for their votes. Biden narrowly won Michigan in 2020, and
Continue ReadingBy Curt Devine, Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Days before a pivotal election in Slovakia to determine who would lead the country, a damning audio recording spread online in which one of the top candidates seemingly boasted about how he’d rigged the election. And if that wasn’t bad enough, his voice could
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has no plans to step down from the Georgia election subversion case over allegations she’s having an affair with her lead prosecutor, a decision driven in part over concern that her departure would effectively end the case against Donald Trump and his multiple
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer Years of fighting losing battles have left the NCAA almost helpless to defend itself. The legal pile-on against the largest governing body for college sports in the Unites States continued when attorneys general from Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit that seeks to throw out the
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — The European Union agreed a funding deal worth more than $50 billion for Ukraine in a crucial summit on Thursday that comes at a pivotal moment in the war. The funds had been blocked since December after Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban had vetoed the deal at a previous
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of the 27 European Union countries sealed a deal Thursday to provide Ukraine with a new 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package for its war-ravaged economy despite weeks of threats from Hungary to veto the move. European Council President Charles Michel announced the
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON and EMILIO MORENATTI The Associated Press GUALBA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s northeast Catalonia is preparing to declare a drought emergency for the area of some six million people including the city of Barcelona. But thousands of people who live in villages and towns in the Catalan countryside have already been in full-blown
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Julius Baer says its CEO is resigning and the Swiss bank is quitting the private debt business as well as setting aside more than a half-billion dollars reportedly over its exposure to bankrupt Austrian asset manager Signa. CEO Philipp Rickenbacher said in a statement Thursday that he
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Elon Musk wants Tesla investors to decide on moving the company’s corporate listing to Texas after a Delaware court decided he shouldn’t get a multibillion-dollar pay package. The electric car company’s CEO said early Thursday that Tesla would get shareholders to vote on whether to switch its corporate registration to Texas,
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has executed a couple for throwing two toddlers out of a high-rise apartment window, in a case that provoked nationwide outrage. The man and his girlfriend were found guilty of killing the children from his first marriage by staging an accidental fall from a residential tower
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