By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — English Heritage has unveiled its 1,000th blue plaque, the famous discs that dot the walls of buildings throughout London to mark the places where scientists, artists, politicians and activists have made history. The charity is working to broaden the program to include more women, people from minority
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Instacart is heading from the supermarket to the stock market. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery company raised $660 million in its initial public offering of stock, selling 22 million shares at $30 apiece. Its shares were set to begin trading Tuesday on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the stock
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Instacart is heading from the supermarket to the stock market. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery company raised $660 million in its initial public offering of stock, selling 22 million shares at $30 apiece. Its shares were set to begin trading Tuesday on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the stock
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials say that a military helicopter crash in Kenya has killed at least eight people. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash in the county of Lamu, in coastal Kenya near Somalia. Kenyan defense forces operate in the area to help deter al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremists
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Five Americans freed from Iranian detention this week returned to US soil early Tuesday following an initial stop in Doha, Qatar, two US officials told CNN. Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi, along with two Americans who have not been publicly named arrived at Fort Belvoir’s Davison Army
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Catholic church leader says the Vatican is considering the findings of a church investigation into “very serious and deeply distressing” child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop. Christopher Saunders resigned as bishop of Broome in 2021 after police announced they had dropped a
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is claiming the country’s former powerful military and spy chiefs orchestrated his ouster in 2017, when he was forced to step down after being convicted of corruption. Sharif spoke on Monday to leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League party via a
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mixed in cautious trading Tuesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on interest rates. France’s CAC 40 added 0.2% to 7,292.91 in early trading. Germany’s DAX fell nearly 0.1% to 15,716.61. Britain’s FTSE 100 was little changed, rising less than 0.1% to
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is urging defense leaders to “dig deep” and provide more air defense systems for Ukraine, to help the country block increasing barrages of Russian missiles. Although allies say they will discuss how they can best help Ukraine’s counteroffensive, they
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spain’s Parliament is set to allow its national legislators to use the country’s minority languages of Catalan, Basque and Galician in national Parliament for the first time on Tuesday. The reform of the linguistic policy of Spain’s lower chamber was a demand of Catalan separatist parties to support the appointment of a
Continue ReadingDERNA, Libya (AP) — Authorities have divided Libya’s flood-stricken city of Derna into four sections to create buffers in case of disease outbreaks, the prime minister of Libya’s eastern administration said Tuesday, a day after thousands of angry protesters demanded the city’s rapid reconstruction. Last week, two dams collapsed during Mediterranean storm Daniel, sending a
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A bus coach traveling through Austria has driven off the road and crashed on its side, killing a woman and injuring 20 other passengers. Austrian broadcaster ORF reported the accident took place Tuesday near the village of Micheldorf in Carinthia state in central Austria. The coach was on its way from Berlin
Continue ReadingCTV NETWORK By Paula Newton and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Canada’s accusation that India may have been involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist on its soil has triggered a growing spat with Ottawa and New Delhi both expelling senior diplomats, sending relations between the two countries plunging. The tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions came
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Foreign companies operating in China say tensions with Washington over technology, trade and other issues and uncertainty over Chinese policies are damaging the business environment and causing some to reassess their plans for investing in the giant market. The results of surveys released Tuesday by the American Chamber of
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has begun its first joint naval exercise at a time when several member countries are responding more strongly to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the area. The non-combat exercise includes joint maritime patrol operations, search and rescue drills, and humanitarian and
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his annual address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to make the case to world leaders — and the 2024 U.S. electorate — that he’s reestablished U.S. leadership on the world stage that he says was
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN New York (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday made a forceful call for the world to stand up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling for leaders to stand firm in their support of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his nation as the war heads toward its
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — A former member of Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is going on trial in Switzerland over the enforced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s. The case is being seen as a landmark of international justice. Yuri Harauski, a former member of a military unit known as SOBR, exited
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The player in the middle of the controversy that engulfed Spanish soccer after she was kissed on the lips by an official has accused the country’s soccer federation of trying to intimidate the World Cup-winning players by picking them for the national team even though they
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine is insisting that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year. Kyiv wants judges at the International Court of Justice to order Russia to halt its
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