内容摘要：Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there had been no homicides in the transit system during the first three months of the year for the first time in seven years. She added that subway crime from January to March had decreased to the second-lowest level in the first quarter in 27 years.

Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there had been no homicides in the transit system during the first three months of the year for the first time in seven years. She added that subway crime from January to March had decreased to the second-lowest level in the first quarter in 27 years.

Investments — mostly foreign — have doubled at the Mongla Export Processing Zone over last four years, creating new jobs in its factories for the climate refugees from the region. The funds, which come from the United States, Japan, South Korea and China, among others, have prevented the refugees from moving to big cities.Workers set hair on mannequins at a factory inside an export processing zone in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Workers set hair on mannequins at a factory inside an export processing zone in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Nazma Binte Alamgir, spokesperson for the government regulator Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority, said about 10 more factories are in the pipeline to start production soon in Mongla, adding thousands of jobs.“This is a good news for the people who are suffering in the region. They will have a chance to survive in a different way,” she said.

To become resilient, Mongla raised an 11-kilometer (7-mile) embankment along a newly built marine drive designed to stop flooding, two flood-control gates, a better drainage system, a water reservoir and a water treatment plant, said Sheikh Abdur Rahman, mayor of Mongla since January.“We need more investment to protect Mongla town from erosion and high tides. People feel safer now, but we need to do more,” he said.

Sheikh Abdur Rahman, mayor of Mongla town, talks to The Associated Press in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Sheikh Abdur Rahman, mayor of Mongla town, talks to The Associated Press in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)over a wing, triggering an emergency slide to inflate. Other passengers quickly restrained the man and the plane didn’t take off.

In a story published May 22, 2025, about recent aircraft tragedies, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of a small plane crash in Boca Raton, Florida. The crash happened April 11, not May 16.This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and New Jersey’s huge commuter railroad resumed Saturday and are set to continue Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said.The locomotive engineers’ strike began Friday at the rail system with 100,000 daily riders and left commuters either working from home or