Month: March 2023

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Monday that it has determined all sides in the brutal conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. The move carries no immediate U.S. policy implications but lends weight to calls for such allegations to be prosecuted.

By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday issued the first veto of his presidency as he sought to block Republican-led efforts in Congress to overturn a Labor Department rule allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and governance factors when making investment decisions. The Labor

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Police say a student has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing two staff members at a high school in Canada’s Atlantic coast city of Halifax.  The two victims and the student were taken to hospital for treatment, and the extent of their injuries remains unclear. Halifax Regional Police say the

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested 19 people in a sweeping corruption case that accuses a well-known former presidential candidate and three former officials of embezzling nearly $350 million and illegal campaign financing. The arrests are the latest in a string of

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three men were found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000. Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were also convicted

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say Tennessee sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a woman who was a suspect in a domestic violence incident. Authorities say Shelby County deputies stopped a vehicle Saturday afternoon in Bartlett that matched the description of one involved in a domestic call in Fayette County earlier in the day. The Tennessee Bureau

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s highest administrative body has ordered the government to better protect endangered dolphins and porpoises in a French industrial fishing hub in the Atlantic Ocean that has become controversial over links to mass deaths of cetaceans in recent years. Monday’s move was welcomed by conservationists who hope

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Globally connected Credit Suisse has been taken over by rival UBS at the urging of Swiss authorities to avoid a collapse that could have sent shock waves through the global economy. But it’s not over yet. UBS shares have dropped on fears that it has

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the U.S. will send Ukraine $350 million in weapons and equipment as fierce battles with Russian forces continue for control of the city of Bakhmut, and troops prepare for an expected spring offensive. The latest package of aid includes

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the company said

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says that two of its staff members were freed in Mali on Monday. The aid workers were released unharmed but the organization would not disclose the employees’ identities or the circumstances of their abductions. The staff were kidnapped

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s dominant political party has received slightly more than half the vote in Sunday’s election for the lower house of parliament. Preliminary results were announced Monday, but the final tally of seats won’t be clear until new single-mandate races are tallied. As part of a series of political reforms in the Central

DOHA Qatar says it has sent 4,000 cabins built to house fans at last year’s World Cup to earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria. The Associated Press watched Monday as the latest batch of pre-fabricated cabins was loaded onto a cargo ship in the Persian Gulf. The Qatar Development Fund began shipping cabins last month

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon will construct a $122 million terminal at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport to be operated by a leading Irish airport company when it’s completed in four years,. Lebanon’s only international airport had a major facelift after the country’s 1975-90 civil war and has been working at full capacity for years. The

By DALATOU MAMANE, ERIC TUCKER and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — An American aid worker and a French journalist kidnapped and held by Islamist extremists were freed on Monday, four days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a visit to West Africa. U.S. officials said no ransom had been paid

PARIS (AP) — Media rights group Reporters Without Borders says a French journalist held hostage by Islamic extremists for nearly two years in Mali has been released. Olivier Dubois was kidnapped in April 2021 from northern Mali. The region is wracked by jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Reporters Without Borders,

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s warring sides say they have agreed to release nearly 900 prisoners of war in a U.N.-brokered deal amid international efforts to end the yearslong conflict. The deal reached Monday on a prisoner exchange capped 10 days of intensive talks in Switzerland between Yemen’s internationally recognized government

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says retirees’ pensions will rise significantly this summer for the second consecutive year. However, the increase will still fall short of the current inflation rate. The Labor Ministry said Monday that pensions will increase by 4.39% in the former West Germany on July 1 and by 5.86% in the

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A student opened fire at a Dallas-area school Monday morning, killing one student and injuring another before being arrested on a capital murder charge, police said. The shooting began on a high school campus in the suburb of Arlington around 6:55 a.m., before many students arrived for the first day back

HEIDELBERG, Germany (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says Europe may see “revolts” if the European Union, of which his country is a member, turns into a “super-state government” that ignores national differences. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gave a speech Monday at the university in Heidelberg, in Germany, about the challenges facing the continent amid the

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution and 8 officials, including judges, lawmakers and clerics accused of links to the security crackdown on protesters. The protests began after the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest by the Islamic Republic’s morality police. It’s

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s communist prime minister has secured a vote of confidence in Parliament, enabling him to continue as long as he has the backing of his new coalition partners. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal got 172 votes while 89 members voted against him on Monday in the House of Representatives, the lower

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarusian human rights group Viasna says the country’s authorities have stepped up security along the border with Poland after security forces killed a foreigner in the region who allegedly was planning a terrorist attack. The Belarusian KGB security agency said the alleged terrorist was shot Sunday in the city of

By GABE STERN, JAMES POLLARD and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year. Imposing longer prison sentences for possessing smaller

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso used a White House visit Monday to encourage people, even in politically divided Washington, to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to “ask how they’re doing, and listen, sincerely,” Comedian Jason Sudeikis,

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and SARA CLINE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Teri Patrick bristles at the idea she wants to ban books about LGBTQ issues in Iowa schools, arguing her only goal is ridding schools of sexually explicit material. Sara Hayden Parris says that whatever you want to call it, it’s