Category Archives: World

Judge temporarily blocks Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A judge cleared the way Thursday for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state's near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ru...
Jun 30, 2022

Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation's main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from ...
Jun 30, 2022

Biden says transatlantic alliance has adapted to new threats
MADRID (AP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that transatlantic alliance has transformed itself by adapting to a rapidly changing security situation around the globe. "I think we can all agree that...
Jun 30, 2022

ICC seeks arrest of 3 suspects linked to Russo-Georgian war
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - International Criminal Court judges have issued arrest warrants for three men wanted on suspicion of committing war crimes during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the court a...
Jun 30, 2022

Russian forces withdraw from Ukraine's Snake Island
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) - Russia's Defense Ministry says it has withdrawn its forces from a Black Sea island near Ukraine's port of Odesa. The ministry said that it pulled back its forces from the Zmi...
Jun 30, 2022

Israel's parliament dissolves, sets 5th election in 4 years
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's parliament voted Thursday to dissolve itself and send the country to the polls in November for the fifth time in less than four years. Yair Lapid, Israel's foreign minister a...
Jun 30, 2022

Xi arrives in Hong Kong for 25th anniversary of handover
HONG KONG (AP) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Hong Kong ahead of the 25th anniversary of the British handover and after a two-year transformation bringing the city more tightly under Commu...
Jun 30, 2022

Dictator's son Marcos Jr. takes oath as Philippine president
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history but ...
Jun 29, 2022

Personal info on California gun owners wrongly made public
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to...
Jun 29, 2022

Arizona attorney general: Pre-state abortion ban enforceable
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's Republican attorney general announced Wednesday that a pre-statehood law that bans all abortions is enforceable and that he will soon file for the removal of an injunction tha...
Jun 29, 2022