By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Declaring a national state of disaster, South Africa has allocated $67 million to help those hit by floods that have killed at least 448 people in the eastern city of Durban and the surrounding KwaZulu-Natal province. Nearly 4,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 40,000 people displaced by…
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By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police opened fire Tuesday at a group of people protesting new fuel price increases, killing one and injuring 10 others, in the first shooting by security forces during weeks of demonstrations over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Police confirmed that…
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By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is restoring federal regulations that require rigorous environmental review of major infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — including likely impacts on climate change and nearby communities. The longstanding reviews were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track projects…
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By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon is close to reaching an agreement with the World Bank in which the international agency would give the crisis-hit country a $150 million loan for food security and to stabilize bread prices for the next six months, the economy minister said Tuesday. Amin Salam said talks with the…
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Placentia will get 139 new townhomes in the southeastern corner of the city. Landsea Homes has begun construction on the “Hudson” community at 443 S. Van Buren Street, an old auto yard between the Santa Fe railroad tracks and Atwood Channel, just south of Orangethorpe Avenue. Sales will begin later this year but no pricing…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN and PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged world finance leaders Tuesday to “get concrete” as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia’s war in Ukraine has made even worse. “This threat touches the most vulnerable people the hardest…
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By JOHN FLESHER LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — Sprawled like a gigantic swimming pool atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an asphalt-and-clay pond holding enough water to produce electricity for 1.6 million households. It’s part of the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant, which uses simple technology: Water is piped from a lower reservoir — the lake,…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The Orange County girls athlete of the week: Name: Zoe Prystajko School: Huntington Beach Sport: Softball Year: Sophomore Noteworthy: The left-handed pitcher fired a two-hitter and struck out 14 to help the Oilers remain undefeated in the Surf League with a 2-1 win at…
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In 2019, L.A.-based actor and writer Sona Tatoyan traveled to her family’s abandoned home in Aleppo, Syria. Eight years had passed since she last visited and, in that time, war in the country had erupted and persisted. Her grandmother, who she last saw in early 2011, had since died and much of her extended family…
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California taxpayers faced a trifecta of taxes this month as they filed federal and state income tax returns and paid their semi-annual property tax bills. Their payments underscored California’s well-deserved reputation of being a high-tax state. Measured by either a percentage of personal income or a share of economic output, California’s state and local taxes…
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