By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A United Nations official says her experience in negotiating an end to decades of conflict in her native Colombia may help her as she seeks to rekindle negotiations over Cyprus’ ethnic division. María Ángela Holguín Cuellar, the U.N. chief’s new personal envoy for Cyprus, said on
Continue ReadingKEENESBURG At least two people were hospitalized after an Amtrak train derailed when it hit a truck carrying milk in a rural area in northeastern Colorado. The crash happened at around 10 p.m. Monday near Keenesburg, a town of about 1,300 people roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Denver, Amtrak said. The Colorado State
Continue ReadingKEENESBURG At least two people were hospitalized after an Amtrak train derailed when it hit a truck carrying milk in a rural area in northeastern Colorado. The crash happened at around 10 p.m. Monday near Keenesburg, a town of about 1,300 people roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Denver, Amtrak said. The Colorado State
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off. A massive crane
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off. A massive crane
Continue ReadingBy OLEG CETINIC and HELENA ALVES Associated Press JOSSIGNY, France (AP) — France’s newly appointed prime minister has announced controls on foreign food products in order to guarantee “fair competition,” seeking to calm the anger of protesting farmers camped out around Paris. Gabriel Attal, in his general policy speech at the National Assembly, also said
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — The local organizing committee for the 2026 Winter Olympics has decided to move forward with rebuilding a century-old bobsled track in Cortina d’Ampezzo but will also keep open a “Plan B” in case the new venue is not ready in time. The committee says its plans
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers posted 9 million job openings in December, an increase from November and another sign that the job market remains resilient despite the headwind of higher interest rates. The number of openings was up from November’s 8.9 million, which itself was revised up in Tuesday’s
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and LAURA UNGAR NEW YORK (AP) — According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was “recovering
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and LAURA UNGAR NEW YORK (AP) — According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was “recovering
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer American consumers, fresh off strong holiday spending, are feeling more confident than they have in two years. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose for the third straight month, to 114.8 in January from 108 in December. January’s reading came in
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian journalist has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to his work covering protests. It’s the latest move in a sweeping government crackdown on dissent. The Minsk City Court convicted photojournalist Alyaksandr Zyankou on charges of “participation in an extremist group,”
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party says it has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years. After a late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the party’s executive has backed proposals to return to the government.
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — About two weeks after his oldest son’s funeral, South Carolina state house Rep. Brandon Guffey says he received a private Instagram message with a laughing emoji. Gavin Guffey, 17, had fatally shot himself in a bathroom in July 2022, and the grieving father was searching for clues on what
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Residents have been evacuated from small coastal towns near Cape Town in South Africa as wildfires swept down off surrounding mountains and burned out of control. Authorities on Tuesday ordered a full evacuation of Pringle Bay, an affluent coastal village popular with holidaymakers, about
Continue ReadingBy MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The manager of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is pledging to push major oil and gas companies to speed up preparations for the “inescapable” transition away from fossil fuels. Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global on Tuesday reported the largest annual return in its history, a
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their record heights Tuesday following a mixed set of profit reports. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 8 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 11:15 a.m. Eastern time, and
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Italian regulators say they informed OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority said Monday that it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation. The
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner has returned to Italy amid great fanfare with RAI state TV broadcasting his arrival at the airport in Rome. Sinner was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with his orange racket bag strapped onto his shoulders and he also held a green bag with gold-colored straps that appeared
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The first United Arab Emirates ambassador to Damascus in nearly 13 years has taken up his post on Tuesday as Syria is reintegrating into mainstream regional acceptance. Syrian state media said the country’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad received Ambassador Hassan Ahmad al-Shihi’s credentials. The UAE embassy
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