MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has agreed to underwrite two companies buying fuel at inflated prices, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warning Thursday that supply disruptions would “have a long tail” even if the Iran ceasefire holds. The government had agreed to terms with Australia’s largest suppliers Ampol and Viva Energy to underwrite contracts for …
MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Two people have died in a fiery plane crash at a small airport in Arizona, officials said Wednesday. The plane went off the runway and burst into flames, Marana Mayor Jon Post said. City spokesperson Vic Hathaway said there were two people on board the plane. They have not been identified. …
An NCAA panel is scheduled to discuss potential changes to eligibility rules that would incorporate age into the process, two people with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday. The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the NCAA hasn’t publicly discussed the proposal. They said the matter was scheduled to be …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence laboratory Anthropic in a decision that differed from the conclusions reached in another judge’s ruling on the same issues. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., rejected Anthropic’s request for an order that would shield the …
LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A Guatemalan man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a felony offense and acknowledged his involvement in an attempt to illegally smuggle migrants to the U.S. when a jampacked tractor-tailer truck crashed in Mexico in 2021, killing more than 50 migrants. Daniel Zavala Ramos, 42, faces a possible sentence of …
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – Bahamian authorities have arrested a Michigan man whose wife went missing at sea over the weekend, the assistant commissioner of police in the Caribbean nation told Reuters on Wednesday, after search and rescue efforts for the woman were called off. Brian Hooker’s arrest came after the U.S. Coast Guard launched …
TORONTO, April 8 (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to astronauts on the Artemis II mission on Wednesday, celebrating the first Canadian to fly around the moon and marking a lighter moment in U.S.-Canadian relations that have been strained under U.S. President Donald Trump. Jeremy Hansen, a 50-year-old Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, …
BEIJING, April 9 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s top leader To Lam will visit China next week from April 14 to 17, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The announcement confirms a Reuters report about Vietnam’s state president and party chief’s planned visit to its largest and most significant neighbour in terms of geopolitical and …
April 8 (Reuters) – A U.S. court of appeals on Wednesday ruled to overturn the conviction against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and ordered a judge to remove the charges against him. (Reporting by Iñigo Alexander and Laura Garcia, Editing by Himani Sarkar) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
TAIPEI, April 9 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s parliament should pass a stalled special defence budget to send a signal to China and the world that it is serious about peace through strength, U.S. Senator Jim Banks said during a meeting with President Lai Ching-te in Taipei. Lai last year proposed $40 billion in extra defence spending …