Taiwan held a series of drills testing New Taipei City’s ability to respond to missile strikes and evacuations. President Lai Ching-te stressed the need for the island to continue exercises simulating an attack by enemies amid ‘changing geopolitics’. (AP video by Taijing Wu) Taiwan held a series of drills testing New Taipei City’s ability to
While Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is in the United States, hundreds of Israelis marched to the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Tuesday calling for an immediate hostage deal. Netanyahu has indicated that a cease-fire deal, that would free dozens of hostages from captivity in Gaza, could be taking shape. (AP video shot by
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand says it has complained to the International Olympic Committee’s integrity unit after a drone flown over a New Zealand women’s soccer team training session was found to be operated by a member of the Canadian team’s support staff. Defending Olympic champion Canada and New Zealand meet in their
The full settlement agreement of antitrust lawsuits involving the NCAA and college sports’ wealthiest conferences is expected to be filed with a federal court by the end of the week, an attorney for the defendants told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I expect that we will file Friday,” said Steve Berman, the Seattle-based attorney of
LONDON (AP) — What do you do when you travel in a chauffeur-driven Bentley but want to be known as the green king? King Charles III plans to resolve this quandary by converting two state Bentleys to run on biofuel. That will give him time to go electric, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday as it released
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea again launched a raft of balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea on Wednesday, Seoul officials said, the 10th such balloon incident in less than two months following South Korea’s resumption of frontline propaganda broadcasts. The tit-for-tat Cold War-style campaigns between the two Koreas are inflaming tensions on
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for children of military families and using it to fund an extravagant lifestyle that included multiple mansions, a fleet of luxury cars and designer accessories was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in federal prison. Janet Yamanaka Mello
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. delivered another quarter of steady growth amid an AI-driven shift in the ubiquitous search engine that is the foundation of its internet empire. The second-quarter report released Tuesday showed that Google is still reeling in advertisers on the heels of the May introduction of an artificial-intelligence
WASHINGTON (AP) — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. Copernicus’ preliminary data shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the record
Patrick Mahomes has separated himself from all the other quarterbacks. The three-time Super Bowl MVP was a unanimous choice by The Associated Press for the NFL’s No. 1 quarterback in a preseason survey. A panel of eight AP Pro Football Writers ranked the top five players at QB, basing selections on current status entering the
