By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A trial has opened of former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on a charge of having made false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his first government. Once a rising star among conservatives in Europe, Kurz resigned in 2021 amid a separate corruption probe and
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s social media platform X has begun charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand, in a test designed to cut down on the spam and fake accounts flourishing on the site formerly known as Twitter. The company said late
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Joe Biden vowed to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israelis during his visit there Wednesday, and offered an assessment that the deadly explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital apparently was not carried out by the Israeli
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn has decided against a bid for governor in 2025 and will instead run next year to represent the competitive northern Virginia congressional seat being vacated by a fellow Democratic lawmaker. Filler-Corn spoke with The Associated Press about her decision Tuesday
Continue ReadingCNN By MJ Lee, Kayla Tausche and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza hours before President Joe Biden was set to leave the White House for the Middle East set off a furious scramble inside his administration as the president’s advisers tried to ascertain who was responsible as
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong man who was shot by police during pro-democracy protests in 2019 has been sentenced to 47 months in prison on charges of rioting, assaulting a police officer and perverting the course of justice. Tsang Chi-kin was the first known victim of police gunfire
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Within hours after a blast was said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighboring Jordan, venting fury at their leaders for failing to stop the
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press DALTON, Ga. (AP) — A South Korean company has begun production at a huge solar panel factory in Georgia. The move by the company Qcells comes even as industry leaders say surging Asian imports could dampen efforts to make more solar components in the U.S. The company owned by South
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Austin Reaves intends to spend this season competing for a championship. And that’s why he thought it made perfect sense to spend his offseason competing for one as well. For about 50 NBA players — including 12 from the U.S. — this was not an ordinary summer filled with
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Devon M. Sayers and Aaron Cooper, CNN Birmingham, Alabama (CNN) — Almost two decades after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba, the man long suspected in her death has confessed to killing the Alabama teen in grisly detail, court documents reveal. But it remains unclear whether Joran van der Sloot, 36, will ever
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Joe Biden opened his visit to Israel on Wednesday vowing to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with the Jewish people and offering an assessment that the deadly explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital appeared to have been
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin on Wednesday, saying, “We will never accept when attacks are carried out against Jewish institutions.” Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails early Wednesday at the synagogue in the center of the German capital, police
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Haley Talbot, Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Jim Jordan again failed to win the House speaker’s gavel in a second vote on Wednesday, faring worse than he did during the first round of voting one day earlier. The loss raises serious questions over whether the Ohio Republican
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A tourist from Britain, another from South Africa and their local guide have been killed in an attack on a tourist vehicle near a Ugandan national park, according to wildlife authorities. Unknown assailants set the victims’ vehicle ablaze Tuesday along a road by Queen Elizabeth National
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of grieving residents gathered on a basketball court in Plainfield, Illinois, Tuesday to mark Wadea Al-Fayoume’s love for the sport during a vigil to honor the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who authorities say was stabbed to death because he was Muslim. The young boy’s photos were
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, Jomana Karadsheh, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Caroline Faraj, CNN (CNN) — Anti-Israel protests flared across the Middle East and North Africa on Tuesday as the leaders of Arab countries condemned Israel over a deadly blast believed to have killed hundreds of people sheltering at a hospital in Gaza City. Palestinian officials quickly blamed
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China have met in Beijing and called for close foreign policy coordination. It comes as concerns grow about possible conflicts with the West over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s rising threats against Taiwan. At their Wednesday morning meeting, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussed trade
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Markets fell in Europe and Asia after China reported Wednesday that its economy grew at a 4.9% annual pace in July-September, down from 6.3% in the previous quarter. Oil prices jumped more than $1. Germany’s DAX was unchanged at 15,253.87 while the CAC 40 in Paris
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Joe Biden touched down in Israel on Wednesday for a diplomatic scramble to prevent the war with Hamas from spiraling into an even larger conflict, a challenge that became more difficult as outrage swept through the Middle East over an explosion
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s ruling party has named the top security minister as the running mate to the party’s presidential candidate in next year’s election. Muhammad Mahfud will run alongside Ganjar Pranowo, former Central Java governor, for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. Wednesday’s announcement sets up a potential
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