• Exit polls suggest a big win by South Korea's liberal opposition parties in parliamentary election

    Exit polls suggest a big win by South Korea's liberal opposition parties in parliamentary election

    Apr 10, 2024 06:45 PM EST

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s liberal opposition parties were expected to win a landslide victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, exit polls and ongoing vote counts suggested, a result that if confirmed would make conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol a lame duck for his remaining three years in ...

  • WATCH: Biden visits Wisconsin to announce student debt relief for more than 30 million

    WATCH: Biden visits Wisconsin to announce student debt relief for more than 30 million

    Apr 08, 2024 02:27 PM EST

    ... Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. Biden said he wanted to “give everybody a fair shot” and the “freedom to chase their dreams” as he lamented the rising cost of higher education. WATCH: Biden speaks in California as he announces student loan relief for over 150,000 people “Even when ...

  • How heavy industries contribute to climate change and what can be done to cut emissions

    How heavy industries contribute to climate change and what can be done to cut emissions

    Mar 29, 2024 10:50 PM EST

    ... like using hydrogen, instead of coal, to make steel, using electrified processes to make cement, using alternative types of cement, like, for example, something called limestone and calcined clay cement, LC3, that has inherently lower emissions associated with it. And, also, there are projects that are using carbon capture and ...

  • In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations

    In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations

    Mar 29, 2024 01:59 PM EST

    JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem's Old City, commemorating one of the faith's most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The day’s processions, which normally draw thousands of foreign visitors ...

  • UN chief urges the EU to avoid humanitarian ‘double standards’ over Gaza and Ukraine

    UN chief urges the EU to avoid humanitarian ‘double standards’ over Gaza and Ukraine

    Mar 21, 2024 07:51 PM EST

    ... liberation of the hostages,” he told reporters. In a draft statement prepared for the summit, seen by The Associated Press, the leaders are due to lament “the unprecedented loss of civilian lives and the critical humanitarian situation. The European Council calls for an immediate humanitarian pause leading to a sustainable ...

  • EPA tightens limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, citing cancer risk

    EPA tightens limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, citing cancer risk

    Mar 14, 2024 06:17 PM EST

    ... syringes, pacemakers and plastic surgical gowns. Brief exposure isn’t considered a danger, but breathing it long term elevates the risk of breast cancer and lymphoma, the EPA said. In 2016, the EPA updated its assessment of ethylene oxide’s danger based on information about exposed workers at sterilizing facilities ...

  • Putin warns again Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence threatened

    Putin warns again Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence threatened

    Mar 13, 2024 04:02 PM EST

    ... no red lines regarding Russia should realize that Russia won't have any red lines regarding them either." Lithuania's foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, recently lamented that the West too often constrains itself with self-imposed "red lines" regarding Russia. He also welcomed a comment by French President Emmanuel Macron ...

  • Trump clinches 2024 Republican nomination

    Trump clinches 2024 Republican nomination

    Mar 13, 2024 03:18 AM EST

    ... Russia. And it could have dramatic implications for NATO. During his years in the White House, Trump often derided the transatlantic alliance as antiquated and lamented that some countries weren't spending enough on their own defense. He has maintained that critique this year, causing a stir on both sides ...

  • WATCH: Alabama Sen. Katie Britt delivers GOP response to the 2024 State of the Union

    WATCH: Alabama Sen. Katie Britt delivers GOP response to the 2024 State of the Union

    Mar 07, 2024 09:05 PM EST

    ... enough to stem migration at the southern U.S. border.She has also been a conservative voice in her home state, frequently criticizing Biden and lamenting a country she has said she no longer recognizes. In December, she endorsed Trump for the presidency. She is expected to continue that theme ...

  • Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign

    Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign

    Mar 06, 2024 09:27 PM EST

    ... was appointed minister of social affairs and labor but faced calls for resignation after he quit the Inite party. He then largely disappeared from the limelight, serving as a political consultant and working as a professor at Haiti’s medical university until he was installed as prime minister shortly after ...