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March 27, 2024, 1:08 p.m.
Wheat for May rose 4 cents at $5.4750 a bushel; May corn fell 5.75 cents at $4.2675 a bushel, May oats was off 2.50 cents at $3.55 a bushel; while May soybeans was down 6.50 cents at $12.0650 a bushel. ...
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March 27, 2024, 12:31 p.m.
MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 143, Russian authorities said Wednesday. Around 80 other people wounded in the siege by gunmen remain hospitalized. The Friday night massacre in Crocus City Hall, ...
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March 27, 2024, 12:12 p.m.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Protesters in Slovakia formed a human chain around the country's public television and radio building Wednesday in anger over a takeover plan by the government whose populist, pro-Russia prime minister recently labeled several private media outlets ...
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March 27, 2024, 11:01 a.m.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Four people were sentenced Wednesday to death and two to life in prison for a murder that sparked widespread unrest in Tunisia and became emblematic of the country's early challenges transitioning from dictatorship to democracy after ...
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March 27, 2024, 10:54 a.m.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs Wednesday for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said. The airstrikes caused widespread damage, hitting several ...
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March 27, 2024, 10:37 a.m.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s newly-elected Parliament on Wednesday voted in a new house speaker, following a potentially important deal between the country's two main centrist parties. The chamber elected José Aguiar Branco of the Social Democrats by 160 votes ...
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March 27, 2024, 10:32 a.m.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Four people were sentenced Wednesday to death and two to life in prison for a murder that sparked widespread unrest in Tunisia and became emblematic of the country's early challenges transitioning from dictatorship to democracy after ...
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March 27, 2024, 10:20 a.m.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has dismissed the Polish commander of the European rapid reaction military unit, the Eurocorps, amid a recently launched military counterintelligence investigation involving him, authorities said Wednesday. A Polish Defense Ministry statement said that new information ...
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March 27, 2024, 9:41 a.m.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world wasted an estimated 19% of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to a new United Nations report. The U.N. Environment Programme's Food Waste Index Report , published ...
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March 27, 2024, 9:18 a.m.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities have shared with China the preliminary findings of an investigation into a deadly attack that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver in the country's volatile northwest, officials said Wednesday. Authorities were doing ...
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March 27, 2024, 9:13 a.m.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced a top security official with the head of Ukraine's foreign spy agency in a new reshuffle that comes as Russian forces press with ground attacks along the front line. Zelenskyy ...
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March 27, 2024, 8:13 a.m.
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were lower Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of trade. Wheat for May was off 1.75 cents at $5.47 a bushel; May corn lost 8.25 cents at $4.30 a bushel; May oats fell ...
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March 27, 2024, 7:57 a.m.
KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — For a few minutes on a recent afternoon, the sun-bathed silence that fills Nadav Tzabari’s neighborhood could almost be mistaken for peace. Then shelling from Israeli tanks dug in across the fence line in ...
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March 27, 2024, 7:48 a.m.
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity said they saw them on Wednesday and that they couldn’t hold back tears of joy during the long-awaited reunion. ...
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March 27, 2024, 7:41 a.m.
HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon killed seven of its members early Wednesday and triggered a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed one person in ...
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March 27, 2024, 5:54 a.m.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said. The accident happened on the A9 highway ...
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March 27, 2024, 5:48 a.m.
MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said. That person was one of five still hospitalized in “extremely grave condition,” ...
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March 27, 2024, 5:46 a.m.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities will perform DNA testing on the remains of the suicide bomber who rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the country's northwest, killing five Chinese nationals and their local driver, officials said Wednesday. ...
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March 27, 2024, 5:13 a.m.
BEIJING (AP) — Passersby in Beijing during winter or early spring might happen upon groups of residents playing fetch with birds. The players blow plastic beads into the air through carbon tubes for the birds — often from the migratory ...
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March 27, 2024, 4:58 a.m.
BEIJING (AP) — China’s nationalist leader Xi Jinping has called for closer trade ties with the U.S. during a meeting with top American business leaders in Beijing that comes amid a steady improvement in relations that had sunk to the ...
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