Month: June 2022

By ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer ST. ALBANS, England (AP) — Graeme McDowell accepts it is “incredibly polarizing” to join the Saudi-funded rebel golf tour. He even offered a reason why. “Take the Khashoggi situation,” he said. “We all agree that’s reprehensible. Nobody is going to argue that fact.” The Northern Irish golfer was referencing

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s justice minister has narrowly survived a no confidence vote in parliament over surging crime. Tuesday’s ballot had threatened to topple Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s minority government as the country is jockeying to join NATO amid strong opposition from Turkey. But the key move that saved the government came from independent,

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two of New York’s longest-serving members of Congress have turned from allies to rivals after a court redrew the state’s congressional maps. U.S. Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney are now running against each other in a Democratic primary to represent a new district in

MADRID (AP) — Spanish media report that former King Juan Carlos has postponed a second visit home since he established residence abroad after his reputation was tarnished by financial scandal. He returned to his country last month for the first time in nearly two years to attend a sailing event in northwest Spain. He was

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Bars and restaurants in Spain will be obliged to offer “doggybags” free of charge to clients to take home the food they have not eaten under a new law aimed at reducing food waste. Under the new bill passed by the Spanish government Tuesday, businesses in the

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body say tensions between Palestinians and Israelis are underpinned by Israel’s “perpetual occupation” of Palestinian areas with no apparent intention of ending it. The findings released Tuesday came in the first report by a Commission of Inquiry created last

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have survived a no-confidence vote, but his grip on power is far from secure. Many compare his position to that of his predecessor Theresa May, who won a similar vote by a larger margin than Johnson but was nonetheless ousted six

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank has sharply downgraded its outlook for the global economy, pointing to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the prospect of widespread food shortages and concerns about the potential return of “stagflation” — a toxic mix of high inflation and sluggish growth unseen for more than

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Gun control and gun violence intervention advocates hope the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, will convince federal and state governments to take action again. Nonprofits like March for Our Lives plan to mobilize supporters on June 11 to push elected officials to require

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A theater in Ukraine’s capital has reopened over for the first time since Russian forces invaded the country, and tickets quickly sold out. Theater on Podil is the latest cultural institution in Kyiv to resume operations: Movie theaters and the National Opera opened their doors at the end of May. Some

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An American woman who prosecutors say led an all-female battalion of Islamic State militants in Syria has pleaded guilty in a case that a prosecutor called a first-of-its-kind in the United States. Allison Fluke-Ekren broke down sobbing after admitting in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia on

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Emergency services used a sonar-equipped boat Tuesday in the hunt for the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed over the weekend in a waterway that is part of the busy port of Rotterdam and two people on board, as police in Norway said the two people missing were Norwegians.

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and the midterm elections are potential triggers for extremist violence over the next six months, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The U.S. was in a “heightened threat environment” already, and

BERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been fatally shot at a supermarket in central Germany. There were few immediate details of the incident shortly after 1 p.m. in the small town of Treysa, but police said in a statement that “there is no danger to the public.” They said a motive wasn’t immediately

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish authorities have charged a 30-year-old British seaman with negligent manslaughter over a fatal cargo ship collision last year, with the “particularly aggravating” factor that the suspect was allegedly drunk on his watch. Two crew members of the Danish-flagged Karin Høj were killed after the freighter collided with the British Scot

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian agents have confiscated 4.3 tons of cocaine with a street value of nearly a quarter-billion euros (dollars) in the northeastern port city of Trieste, dealing a blow to Colombia’s feared Gulf Clan in one of the largest drug busts ever in Europe. Arrest warrants were being

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Federal investigators say Goodyear knew that some of its recreational vehicle tires could fail and cause severe crashes, yet it didn’t recall them for as many as 20 years. Goodyear wouldn’t recall the tires even as late as March of this year, despite investigators finding that

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote Monday night but saw his authority undermined as more than 40% of his party’s lawmakers backed calls for him to step down. Johnson has repeatedly shrugged off scandal and criticism over the past two decades, retaining the support

PARIS (AP) — Health workers protested on Tuesday around France to demand more hiring and better salaries in public hospitals. Years of cost cuts left medics submerged when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and are now forcing emergency rooms to cut services. Nine unions and collectives organized a day of protest, including a demonstration outside the

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Forget rummaging through the junk drawer. Soon, Europeans will only need to reach for one cable to charge their smartphones and other devices. European Union officials said they inked a provisional agreement Tuesday that will require a uniform charging cord in the 27-nation bloc. It’s part

MILAN (AP) — Authorities in the northwestern Italian port city of Genoa are executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani citizens linked to a man who stabbed two people in September 2020 outside the former offices in Paris of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine. Anti-terrorism investigators said the suspects are accused of criminal association with an

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy after surgery. That’s according to two new studies exploring shorter, gentler cancer care. Researchers are looking for ways to precisely predict which patients can avoid unneeded treatment to cut down on harmful side effects and unnecessary costs. One study

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s National Court says that a Spanish judge will travel to Israel to seek testimony from the head of tech company NSO regarding the use of its Pegasus spyware in tapping politicians’ phones in the European country. The planned trip was made public after the judge

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria say they will turn to the government in Damascus for support should Turkey go ahead with its threat to launch a new incursion into the war-torn country. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Tuesday after a meeting of

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more than half a billion dollars to expand broadband access in four U.S. states. It’s part of a sweeping new national initiative to provide affordable internet service to rural and low-income Americans. Louisiana, New Hampshire, Virginia and West Virginia are

By ED DAVEY Associated Press The trade group representing the cruise ship industry unsuccessfully pushed international authorities to water down new environmental regulations despite its members’ climate commitments, experts in marine air pollution warn. Late last month, the International Maritime Organization rejected a cruise industry effort that would have improved cruise ships’ carbon pollution scores.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating three employees of rail company Deutsche Bahn on suspicion of negligent homicide over a train crash last week that killed five people and injured dozens more. The double-deck regional train that derailed Friday near the southern Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen had about 140 people on

BERLIN (AP) — A Catholic diocese in Germany says a former priest has been convicted in a church trial of sexually abusing a minor over several years almost three decades ago. The diocese of Limburg said in statement Tuesday that the man, who wasn’t identified, was ordered to pay 10% of his income to a

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian and Chinese officials will break ground this week on the expansion of a port facility that the U.S. and others worry will be used by Beijing as a naval outpost on the Gulf of Thailand, but the government has denied that

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The United States won a legal battle on Tuesday to seize a Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji and wasted no time in taking command of the $325 million vessel and sailing it away from the South Pacific nation. The court ruling represented a significant victory for