International News (Page 275)

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.The World Health Organization, about six months…Continue Reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal.”Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited…Continue Reading

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday she wouldn’t seek a second term after a rocky five years marked by huge protests calling for her resignation, a security crackdown that has quashed dissent and most recently a COVID-19 wave that overwhelmed the health system.Her successor will be picked in May and…Continue Reading

BEIJING (AP) — China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest city.The city was conducting a mass testing of its 25 million residents Monday as what was supposed to be…Continue Reading

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets, buildings and yards strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, many of them evidently killed at close range.The grisly images of battered or burned bodies left out in…Continue Reading

If you’re thinking about getting a commercial driver’s license, now might be the right time. The White House is trying to boost more trucking jobs amid the supply chain bottleneck. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a step closer to a lifelong appointment to the nation’s highest court. Senators on Capitol Hill held votes to move…Continue Reading

The District of Columbia’s civil lawsuit against the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and 37 individual defendants fails for lack of standing, a defense attorney said Monday. “We don’t think that they have jurisdiction to sue,” attorney Jonathon Moseley, who represents Oath Keepers leader Kelly Meggs, told The Epoch Times. “They don’t have standing to sue…Continue Reading

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino Monday became the second candidate for mayor of Los Angeles to release his tax returns from the last five years, following City Attorney Mike Feuer. According to Buscaino’s 2021 tax return, which he filed with his wife Geralyn, the couple’s adjusted gross income was $291,758, and $257,152 was…Continue Reading