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The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday launched a nationwide campaign urging travelers to improve their behavior at airports and on flights, as disruptive incidents remain far above pre-pandemic levels.The effort, called “The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You,” aims to restore civility in the skies and address a surge in disruptive behavior. The department said the initiative is meant to “jumpstart a nationwide conversation around how we can all restore courtesy and class to air travel.”Disruptive passenger incidents doubled in 2024 compared with 2019, while in-flight outbursts — ranging from inappropriate behavior to physical attacks — surged 400%…

Clean, green energy and a resilient regional power system? A closer look at a flagship Tunisia-Italy electricity interconnection project shows that, in reality, it is reinforcing Tunisia’s debt and dependency while helping Italy polish its green credentials. In other words, it is a classic case of greenwashing. Tunisia is facing an escalating energy crisis. Once nearly self-sufficient, the country now produces less than half of what it consumes. Over 95 percent of Tunisia’s electricity comes from natural gas, two-thirds of which is imported from Algeria. Even electricity itself is increasingly imported. In 2023, 11 percent of Tunisia’s electricity demand was…

CAIRO (AP) — Almost two dozen children died of malnutrition-related causes within a month in central Sudan where fierce fighting between the country’s military and a paramilitary group has centered, a medical group said.The deaths of 23 children in the Kordofan region underscores the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the northeastern African country where famine is spreading after more than 30 months of devastating war.Sudan plunged into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country.The devastating war has…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was under arrest on Saturday over suspicion he was plotting to avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw the case on Bolsonaro’s attempt to keep the presidency after his defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022, ordered the preemptive arrest after saying the far-right leader’s ankle monitor was violated at 0:08 a.m. on Saturday.Bolsonaro, 70, who had been under house arrest, was ordered to wear the device after being deemed a flight risk. The former president,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Western allies rallied around the war-torn country on Saturday as they pushed to revise a U.S. peace plan seen as favoring Moscow despite its all-out invasion of its neighbor. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed Ukrainians “will always defend” their home.A Ukrainian delegation, bolstered by representatives from France, Germany and the U.K., is preparing for direct talks with Washington in Switzerland on Sunday. The 28-point blueprint drawn up by the U.S. to end the nearly four-year war sparked alarm in Kyiv and European capitals, with Zelenskyy saying his country could face a stark choice between standing…

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks, at a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center in Savannah, Georgia, U.S. September 24, 2024. Megan Varner | ReutersRepublican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced on Friday that she will resign her seat in the House of Representatives in early January, after a dramatic falling out with President Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein files and other issues.Greene cited Trump’s recent attacks on her — which included calling her a “traitor” and a “lunatic” — in a video and statement…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of firefighters were battling a blaze on a container ship docked at a Los Angeles port on Friday night, according to officials.All of the 23 crew members were accounted for and there were no injuries from the electrical fire, which appears to have started below deck, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The ship’s cargo includes hazardous materials. By about 7 p.m., the fire had spread to several levels of the ship, according to the fire department, and later an explosion took place mid-deck. It was not immediately clear how the fire started.More than…

Nov 21, 2025, 07:24 PM ETBayern Munich winger Luis Díaz has been banned for three games by UEFA following his red card against Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month.UEFA determined that Díaz had committed “serious rough play” with his tackle on Paris Saint-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi in first-half stoppage time of Bayern’s 2-1 Champions League win at the Parc des Princes.- Díaz gets 2 goals, red card in 1st half vs. PSG- Sources: Hakimi out for 6 weeks after Díaz tackleDíaz had a particularly eventful outing in Paris, having scored both Bayern goals in the first half before he was sent off.The…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — And Rosalía said, “Let there be Lux.”Rosalía, the global Spanish pop star loved by millions for fusing flamenco with Latin hip-hop and reggaeton, has amazed her fans with a radical shift.The singer and songwriter’s new album, “Lux” (“Light” in Latin), is unabashedly spiritual. Fifteen songs, sung in 13 different languages, including fragments in Latin, Arabic and Hebrew, are laden with a yearning for the divine.And it is receiving praise from on high.Xabier Gómez García, bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat which includes Rosalía’s hometown of Sant Esteve Sesrovires near Barcelona, was one of the first church…

CAIRO (AP) — Ahmed al-Yamani’s family went from joy of celebrating his daughter’s wedding to terror the next day, when masked troops stormed into their home in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital held by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, and arrested him.The family didn’t hear from him for months. His only crime, they suspect, was having worked for local humanitarian groups.Al-Yamani is among dozens of Yemeni workers with aid groups, United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations who have been detained since last year by the Houthis in the rebel-held northern part of the country. The crackdown has seen homes and offices raided,…