By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s defense minister has vowed massive retaliatory missile strikes on “the heart and head” of North Korea in the event of provocation, as the rivals escalate their rhetoric over their respective spy satellite launches in recent days. The South Korean warning on Friday came
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A union representing Germany’s train drivers began a 24-hour strike Thursday night, causing widespread rail cancellations and travel disruptions across the country. The strike began on Thursday at 10 p.m. for passenger services and will continue until 10 p.m. on Friday. For freight trains, the strike began at 6 p.m. Thursday. Deutsche
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations climate conference on Friday began its final week with negotiators expected to zoom in on the future of fossil fuels on a dangerously warming planet. “It’s go-time for governments at COP28 this week,” U.N. Climate Chief Simon Stiell
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces stormed into a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank to arrest Palestinian militants and unleashed fighting with local gunmen in which six Palestinians were killed. The Palestinian Health Ministry said the dead included a 14-year-old boy and a local commander
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A French juvenile court is handing down a verdict for six teenagers accused of involvement in the killing of teacher Samuel Paty. He was beheaded by an Islamic extremist after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his class for a discussion on freedom of expression. Paty was killed in 2020
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has visited the Notre Dame Cathedral to mark the one-year countdown to its reopening. The cathedral is undergoing extensive restoration after a blaze burned through the roof and spire on April 15, 2019. The spire’s restoration symbolizes an emotional revival
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden went to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden went to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s ascendancy in the GOP presidential race has brought new financial support, but also newfound attention from her rivals trying to topple former President Donald Trump. But in the face of increased scrutiny, Haley’s allies increasingly are thinking about the long game. She
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — World shares were mostly up on Friday ahead of a U.S. government jobs report, after Wall Street rose Thursday to snap its first three-day losing streak since Halloween. On Thursday, the S&P 500 climbed 0.8% to 4,585.59. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2% to
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that’s already here. Discussions for what’s known as the Global Goal
Continue ReadingBy Dave Alsup and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Good Samaritans helped thwart a woman’s attempt to set a fire at the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, police said. Police were called to the historic home in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood around 5:45 p.m. Thursday on a vandalism report,
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says 2023 has been an unprecedented year for the number of media workers killed on the job. The organization that represents journalists worldwide said Friday that 94 media workers have been killed so far this year and almost 400 others are in jail. Deaths in Israel’s war
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it has spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Taiwan Strait along with a large-scale movement of military aircraft and ships. It says the balloon passed over the northern port city of Keelung on Thursday night, then continued east before disappearing. Taiwan has threatened to shoot down
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, BASSEM MROUE and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperate Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanding ground offensive crowded into an ever-shrinking area of the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third month Friday. The United Nations warned that its aid operation is “in tatters” because no place in
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi officials say a rocket attack at the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has caused minor damage but no casualties. Iran-backed militias in Iraq have claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks that targeted bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas war
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday ahead of a U.S. government jobs report, after Wall Street rose Thursday to snap its first three-day losing streak since Halloween. U.S. futures were lower and oil prices gained more than $1. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — From trade to human rights, the leaders of China and the European Union differed on a wide range of issues at a summit this week in the Chinese capital. Separate post-summit news conferences on Thursday highlighted their divergent positions. China raised concerns about trade protectionism and “de-risking,”
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Taylor Romine, Jay Croft and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The 67-year-old career college professor who fatally shot three faculty members this week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, kept a “target list” of faculty at the school and elsewhere, said authorities searching for a motive. Investigators found ammunition at Anthony
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Beijing has ramped up its push to interfere in next month’s Taiwan presidential election, with a top Chinese leader urging officials to be more effective and discreet in their work at a recent high-level meeting, according to a senior Taiwanese security official. Wang Huning, the fourth-ranking leader
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