Month: June 2022

BERLIN (AP) — The German government plans to give people prosecuted or investigated under a Nazi-era law criminalizing homosexuality another five years to seek compensation. Democratic West Germany zealously enforced the law long after World War II. Germany’s justice minister said the Cabinet decided Wednesday to extend a July 21 deadline to ensure that any

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Drew Brees is officially done at NBC Sports after one year. NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua says in a phone interview with The Associated Press that Brees will not be a part of the network’s NFL and Notre Dame coverage this year. The New York Post reported last month

By JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet Large summer toys, like boats and RVs, are expensive, and few people can cover the purchase price outright. If you need to borrow money to pay for a summer vehicle, a secured loan is typically the most affordable option. Many lenders also offer unsecured loans. Smaller purchases, like a jet

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese Cabinet minister says Lebanon will soon launch an international tender for the construction of a new terminal at the country’s only international airport in Beirut. The airport that had a major facelift after the country’s 1975-90 civil war has been working on full capacity for years and the government’s plans

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds Shopping for a new or used car over the last couple of years,  has become a more challenging endeavor, thanks to issues from the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes to the market have been so impactful, that much of the car-buying advice and techniques we’d recommend, are no longer

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — An online snafu involving China’s most popular e-commerce livestreamer and a cake decorated to look like a tank has raised questions among some Chinese over the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. It’s a sensitive subject heavily censored

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese and Cambodian officials have broken ground on a contentious naval port expansion project, dismissing American concerns it could provide Beijing with a strategically important military outpost on the Gulf of Thailand. The “modernization” of the Ream Naval Base will include a

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has turned off two surveillance devices used by U.N. nuclear inspectors to monitor the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment. Wednesday’s action further escalates the crisis over Iran’s atomic program as the country’s nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters. State media reports

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a man drove a car into a German school group in a Berlin shopping district, killing a teacher and seriously injuring nine people. Police said the man drove into people on a street corner about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, got the car back

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that will curtail how governments can deal with extremists. The High Court ruled Wednesday that a Cabinet minister illegally canceled a suspected Islamic State group fighter’s citizenship. The court restored Delil Alexander’s Australian citizenship that was removed last

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Austria say 107 students and teachers on a school trip from Germany had to be airlifted to safety after they followed an online map that directed them onto an unmarked and difficult trail. Police in the western state of Vorarlberg said more than 60 rescuers took part in the rescue

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer BELLINZONA, Switzerland (AP) — Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter was full of smiles before entering the courtroom but later claimed he was bothered by chest pains and unable to testify on the opening day of his criminal trial. Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with defrauding FIFA. The

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate to 4.9% from 4.4% to contain fast-rising inflation. Wednesday’s increase follows a 40 basis points rise in May that was meant to keep price increases in check. Reserve Bank of India Gov. Shaktikanta Das said the decision was aimed at curbing inflation

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — With British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dealt a heavy blow after surviving a no-confidence vote from his own Conservative Party, questions already are being asked about who might succeed him if he was forced from office. Conservative lawmakers voted 211-148 to keep Johnson as leader Monday following

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A government official says a speeding bus has veered off a narrow mountain road and plummeted into a ravine in a remote area of southwest Pakistan, killing 22 passengers including women and children. The accident happened Wednesday in the district of Qilla Saifullah in Baluchistan province.

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Song Hae, a South Korean TV presenter who was beloved for decades as the warm-humored emcee of a nationally televised singing contest, has died at the age of 95. Born in 1927 in what is now North Korea, Song escaped to the South during the

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia and Turkey say they support a safe corridor in the Black Sea to export Ukrainian grain to global markets. Turkey’s foreign minister hosted his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Ankara on Wednesday. A Turkish minister also said that Western sanctions should be

By OMAR FARUK and CARA ANNA Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — No mother should have to lose her child. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has watched four die this year. A drought in the Horn of Africa has taken them, one by one. Now she cradles her frail and squalling 3-year-old, Ali Osman, whom she carried

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl has been put to death in the state’s second execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty this year after a hiatus that lasted nearly eight years. Arizona Attorney

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — State media say Vietnam’s health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have been arrested in an investigation into massive price gouging of COVID-19 tests. An online news outlet says the Ministry of Public Security announced Tuesday that both the mayor and the health minister were dismissed from their posts

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — NASA is gearing up to launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month. It will be the agency’s first blast off from a commercial space port outside the United States. NASA and the launch pad’s owner, Equatorial Launch Australia, said on Wednesday three suborbital

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has met with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan, emphasizing the U.S. commitment to defend its allies and trilateral security cooperation to confront an accelerating nuclear threat from North Korea. The latest top-level meetings between the countries

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of a lesser-known American also imprisoned in Russia. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Liz Cheney has been thinking lately about her great-great-grandfather, a man who fought for the Union in the Civil War, as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection prepares to launch a prime-time hearing of its work. The Wyoming congresswoman, a