Heavy wave of Russian missile attacks hit areas throughout Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched its latest barrage of hypersonic and cruise missiles against Ukrainian targets early Monday, striking near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country, officials said. At least four civilians were reported killed and at least 30 injured.
Western officials and analysts had previously warned that was stockpiling its cruise missiles in preparation for a strategy of winter bombardment, as bad weather keeps the 1,500-kilometer (930
German farmers block highway access roads, stage protests against plan to scrap diesel tax breaks
BERLIN (AP) — Farmers blocked highway access roads in parts of Germany Monday and snarled traffic elsewhere with their tractors, launching a week of protests against a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular three-party coalition infuriated farmers last month by to abolish a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and the diesel tax breaks. The proposals were to fill a 17-billion-euro ($18.6-billion) hole in the 2024
Bangladesh’s democracy faces strain as Hasina is reelected amid a boycott by opposition parties
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has swept to power for a fourth consecutive term in Bangladesh, following an that was boycotted by opposition parties and marked by violent protests and international scrutiny.
Her Awami League party won 222 seats out of 299, according to the Election Commission, cementing a majority in Parliament and extending her 15-year rule that has made in the nation’s history.
Hasina’s victory, widely seen as inevitable, came amid low voter turnout at
First US lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first U.S. moon landing attempt in more than 50 years appeared to be doomed after a private company’s spacecraft developed a “critical” fuel leak just hours after Monday’s launch.
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology managed to orient its lander toward the sun so the solar panel could collect sunlight and charge its battery, as a special team assessed the status of what was termed “a failure in the propulsion system.”
It soon became apparent,
Bomb targeting police assigned for anti-polio campaign kills 6 officers, wounds 10 in NW Pakistan
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb exploded Monday near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bombing happened in the former Pakistani Taliban stronghold of Mamund in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, police official Kashif Zulfiquar said.
He said some of the wounded officers were in critical condition at a government hospital.
Anti-polio campaigns
India court restores life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman in 2002 riots
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Monday restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago and asked the convicts to surrender to the authorities within two weeks.
The Hindu men were convicted in 2008 of rape and murder. They were released in 2022 after serving 14 years in prison.
The victim, who is now in her 40s, was pregnant when she was brutally gang-raped in
With every strike and counterstrike, Israel, the US and Iran’s allies inch closer to all-out war
In the last week alone, an Israeli airstrike has in Lebanon, with rockets and Israel with an airstrike in Beirut.
Each strike and counterstrike increases the risk of the spilling across the region.
In the decades-old standoff pitting the U.S. and Israel against Iran and , there are fears that any party could trigger a wider war if only to avoid appearing weak. A U.S. airstrike last week, and the U.S. Navy recently in the Red Sea.
The divisions within each camp
Hundreds evacuate homes, 38 rescued from floods in southeast Australia after heavy storms
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate their homes on Monday after flooding inundated parts of Victoria state, as wild weather continues to batter Australia’s southeast.
The issue was ordered for badly hit areas in the small towns of Seymour and Yea, about 70 miles north of Melbourne. Authorities told residents and tourists to leave immediately as floodwaters rose to dangerous levels.
Multiple flood and thunderstorm warnings were in place across Victoria with the deluge filling streets with water. Authorities rescued 38 people
Inside the 2024 Golden Globes: What you didn’t see on camera
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The s likes to think of itself as the party of the year, but instead of a debauched, champagne-fueled romp, it can sometimes feel more like a strange high school reunion for the extremely famous.
Some are catching up with old friends and co-stars, some are kissing their dates in plain sight and some fawn over the cool kids they haven’t yet met. Sometimes it happens on camera, as with “Poor Things” director Yorgos Lanthimos swooning
Chinese property firm Evergrande’s EV company says its executive director has been detained
BANGKOK (AP) — A top executive of China Evergrande’s electric vehicle company has been detained by police in the latest sign of trouble for the world’s property developer.
China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle announced the detention of Liu Yongzhuo, its vice chairman and an executive director, in a notice Monday to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its shares sank 6% after they resumed trading later in the day.
That followed news over the weekend that Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, a major shadow bank in China that has lent