Month: July 2022

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s oil minister says the government will take steps to enforce a recent court decision to annul oil contracts in the country’s northern Kurdish region. Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said on Thursday contracts between international oil companies and the semi-autonomous Kurdish-run northern region amounted to oil smuggling and

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s Parliament has passed amended legislation on border security that allows for the closure of crossing points with Russia. Lawmakers approved the changes Thursday amid fears that Moscow could choose to send large numbers of migrants to the frontier. It came just two days after NATO’s 30

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. dollar has been surging so much that it’s nearly equal in value to the euro for the first time in 20 years. That trend, though, threatens to hurt American companies because their goods become more expensive for foreign buyers. If U.S. exports were to

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and MICHAL DYJUK Associated Press SZYPLISZKI, Poland (AP) — The presidents of NATO members Poland and Lithuania have voiced confidence that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor that links their countries, Concern over NATO’s ability to defend the so called Suwalki Gap, a 70-kilometer (43-mile) wedge joining Poland and

SMITHSBURG, Md. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted the West Virginia man accused of shooting and killing three coworkers at a Maryland machine shop and then shooting and wounding a state trooper who was responding to the incident. Assistant State’s Attorney Christine Remsburg says 23-year-old Joe Louis Esquivel of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was indicted

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Fendi’s ultra-white, sanitized runway for once put the couture, not the decor, in the spotlight to cap Paris Fashion Week Thursday. That allowed guests, including Bond star Lashana Lynch and Korean actress Song Hye-kyo, to take in every bead, paillette and spliced paneling that went behind

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-money laundering agency has accused ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto of receiving millions of dollars in illegal funds. The criminal complaint filed against Peña Nieto by the government’s Financial Intelligence Unit doesn’t mean prosecutors have decided to file formal charges. But the head of the unit says federal prosecutors have received

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his government’s police and soldiers are dying on a “daily” basis as the country grapples with insurgencies in Oromia and elsewhere. Abiy in a parliamentary address repeated a vow to destroy the Oromo Liberation Army, a rebel group his government blames for two

JERUSALEM (AP) — A lawyer representing an Israeli woman convicted on drug charges in the United Arab Emirates says she has been sentenced to life in prison. The UAE court had initially sentenced her to death but cancelled it last week. Israel says it has closely followed the case. The UAE normalized relations with Israel

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish prosecutors say they have decided to look into allegations by a daughter of a former president of Angola that a conspiracy is behind her father’s serious illness. Former President José Eduardo dos Santos is in a coma in a Barcelona clinic. Catalan police have also

ROME (AP) — The Italian Foreign Ministry says it is working to quickly bring back an Italian family from Egypt whose 6-year-old son died suddenly in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and the parents ended up hospitalized. The ministry said Egyptian law enforcement and medical authorities had already opened an investigation into the

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Health care professionals have taken to the streets in several Turkish cities to protest mounting violence against them. Thursday’s demonstration came a day after a cardiologist was killed by the son of a patient. Police in Istanbul used pepper gas to disperse doctors and other health care workers who tried to

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is about to swap solitary confinement at Minnesota’s only maximum security prison for an unknown future at a federal prison. Experts say that despite Chauvin’s national notoriety for killing George Floyd, he probably will be safer at whatever federal prison he’s

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has endorsed businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson to be his successor. Ducey on Thursday added his name to a growing list of mainstream conservatives looking to boost the businesswoman past Donald Trump-endorsed frontrunner Kari Lake. Robson is a political newcomer who has used

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Trump supporter to three years of probation and a $7,000 fine for sending an email threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and three other congresswomen. David George Hannon, 67, also must undergo mental and substance abuse treatment and have no contact with Omar

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says Georgia lawmakers appearing before a special grand jury in the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally meddled in the state’s 2020 election have broad immunity but can be asked about their conversations with people outside of the legislature. A former

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Thursday that a transgender woman cannot change her name because she is on the state’s sex offender registry and the law does not allow people on the registry to change their names. The court’s 4-3 decision upholds the rulings

CAIRO (AP) — Two leading human right groups are accusing Egyptian authorities of failing to conduct an impartial and transparent investigation into the suspicious death in custody of an economic researcher. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accused in a joint statement on Thursday Egyptian prosecutors of turning a blind eye to evidence that 48-year-old

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania will present a combat drone to Ukraine that was donated by the Turkish manufacturer after a private crowdfunding campaign among ordinary Lithuanians, who raised nearly 6 million euros ($6.1 million) for the purpose within days. The campaign’s success inspired Turkey’s Baykar defense company, which makes the Bayraktar TB2 drone, to

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week and while layoffs remain low, it was the fifth consecutive week that claims topped the 230,000 mark and the most in almost six months. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 2 rose to 235,000, up

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative Party leader after months of ethics scandals and a party revolt. But he remains Britain’s prime minister — for now — while a successor is chosen. With British politics in turmoil, here’s a look at what will happen next: WHY IS