By JILL LAWLESS and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager walking alone in the rain in deepest rural France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm. “I said to myself, ‘That’s strange. It’s 3 am in the morning, it’s raining, he’s all by himself on the road
Continue ReadingASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed on a western North Carolina highway and caught fire, but the two people on board escaped life-threatening injuries. The Federal Aviation Administration says a single-engine Diamond DA-40 crashed on Interstate 26 near Asheville Regional Airport around 8:15 p.m. Thursday with two people on board. WLOS-TV
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny said his lawyer was told in court that he had been moved from the penal colony east of Moscow where he has been serving time but was not told where he was taken. The disclosure that Navalny was moved
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Bill Maher has had a few second thoughts, or at least some variations on the first ones. Next June, Simon & Schuster will publish “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You,” in which the outspoken host of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” revisits some of his on-air commentary. The publisher
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry won his historic phone hacking lawsuit Friday against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 140,000 pounds ($180,000) in the first of several lawsuits against British tabloids to go to trial in his battles with the press. Justice Timothy Fancourt in the
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two private companies have announced a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium that blocks the dengue virus as the region fights a record number of cases. Friday’s announcement was made by Orbit Services Partners Inc., a company registered in Barbados, and Verily, a San
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One person died Friday and another is in critical condition after a boat carrying more than 60 migrants got into difficulty as it attempted to make the dangerous crossing across the English Channel from France. Rescue vessels picked up 66 people in all, including the person who
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of the total, decided whether to leave the denomination or remain United Methodist. This splintering resulted from a long-simmering debate over theological differences and the role of LGBTQ people in the church. WHY
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border. He added that a “negotiated outcome” is the best way to reassure residents of northern Israel. Sullivan said in Jerusalem on Friday that Washington won’t tolerate threats
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination during a five-year window, closing this month, that authorized departures for congregations over disputes involving the church’s LGBTQ-related policies. This year alone, 5,641 congregations received permission from their regional conferences to leave the
Continue ReadingBy GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the years-long judicial process over the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents that deeply scarred the South American country. Desi Bouterse and two dozen others were accused of rounding up well-known people including lawyers, journalists
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli soldier looks directly into the camera, then turns around and sets a pile of food supplies on fire. “We turn on the light against this dark place and burn it until there is no trace of this whole place,” he says as another soldier
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage. Police seized allegedly stolen items worth almost 2 million euros — or $2.2 million — from the group of employees at the largest airport in Tenerife in Spain’s
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ballistic missile fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen slammed into a cargo ship Friday in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, following another attack only hours earlier that struck a separate vessel, authorities said. The missile attack on the MSC
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than previously planned next month. The move is part of a deal to resolve a budget crisis. The CO2 price will rise to 45 euros or about $49 per ton of emissions from the
Continue ReadingBy KARIN LAUB, NAJIB JOBAIN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The U.S. and Israel have discussed a timetable for scaling back intense combat operations in the war against Hamas, even though they agree the overall fight will take months, an envoy said Friday, amid growing American unease about the mounting
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage. Police seized allegedly stolen items worth almost 2 million euros ($2.2 million) from the group of employees at the largest airport in Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands. A
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Two subway trains have collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones. Authorities said Friday the accident occurred the previous evening in Beijing’s mountainous west on an above-ground portion of the sprawling subway system’s Changping line. They say slippery tracks prompted automatic braking
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Jeff Zeleny and Alison Main, CNN Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) — With the holidays approaching and the first Republican nominating contest a month away, the GOP presidential contenders will urgently spread across the early voting states in the coming days for what is likely the last full weekend of heavy campaigning before
Continue ReadingBy ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet As you plan your holiday giving, you may be thinking about adding service workers to your list of recipients. But holiday tips raise lots of questions: Whom should you tip extra during the holidays? How big of a tip should you give? Does the tip need to be in cash?
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