Month: May 2023

By JEROME PUGMIRE and GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — With speculation over Lionel Messi’s potential next destination turning into a frenzy his father intervened Tuesday to say no deal has been agreed over a move to Saudi Arabia or return to Barcelona. Messi’s contract with Paris Saint-Germain runs until the end of

STARKS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been arrested on aggravated assault and battery charges after shooting at children playing hide and seek outside his home. One bullet struck a 14-year-old girl in the back of the head. She was treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office says

BERLIN (AP) — A highway collision between a long-distance Polish bus and a truck injured dozens of people in eastern Germany, officials in Poland and Germany said. The crash happened Tuesday on the A 12 highway between the Brandenburg state towns of Storkow and Fredersdorf. German police said 52 people were hurt, including 10 with

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Constitutional Court will consider a legal challenge lodged by the far-right Vox party against a new law extending rights for transgender teenagers and encouraging tolerance for sexual diversity in schools. The wide-ranging LGBT rights law passed in February allows any Spanish citizen over 16 years old

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from the ongoing clashes in Sudan has risen to 604 people, including civilians. That’s according to the U.N. health agency. The new figures released on Tuesday come as representatives of the warring parties continue talks in Saudi Arabia. A World Health Organization spokesman also

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel from million-selling author Kristin Hannah is a war story set in the 1960s. St. Martin’s Press announced Tuesday that Hannah’s “The Women” will be published next winter, Feb. 6. The novel follows the life of young nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath, whose traditional upbringing is upended by the

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Myanmar’s military of using an “enhanced blast” munition known as a fuel-air explosive in an airstrike that killed more than 160 people, including many children, at a ceremony held last month by opponents of army rule. It accused the military of dropping

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A large installation representing Russian atrocities in Ukraine blocked the path of Russia’s ambassador to Poland as he sought to lay a wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers. The installation Tuesday, Russia’s Victory Day holiday, included hundreds of fluttering blue and yellow Ukrainian flags

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has presented a proposal for a law that will make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender, ending decades-old rules that require them to get expert assessments and a court’s authorization. Under the planned “self-determination law,” adults would be able

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet When you receive an email or mail notice inviting you to join a class-action lawsuit, or notifying you that you’ve been automatically included, it might give you pause. Is it worth the small reward  — usually under $20 — to give up your rights to sue individually? Depending on the

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge appeared skeptical Tuesday to arguments made by an attorney for superstar golfer Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman, who is trying to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that would require the ongoing legal disputes between the two be decided privately by an arbitrator. During a

BEIJING (AP) — An unmarried Chinese woman on Tuesday began her final appeal of a hospital’s denial of access to freeze her eggs five years ago in a landmark case of female reproductive rights in the country. Teresa Xu’s case has drawn broad coverage in China, including by some state media outlets, since she first

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There were no corrections officers assigned specifically to watch the housing unit of a Philadelphia prison when two inmates escaped Sunday night, and no armed perimeter guards were on duty as the men broke through the prison’s fence, a correctional officers union official told The Associated Press

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan, the United States and South Korea are negotiating an agreement on sharing real-time data on North Korean missile launches, as cooperation among the three nations becomes increasingly important amid growing nuclear and missile threats from the North. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno says there has

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An anti-monarchy group says it plans to take legal action against London’s Metropolitan Police after several of its members were arrested as they prepared to protest the coronation of King Charles III. The police force has expressed “regret” that the activists were prevented from protesting, but defended

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for the European Union to address the political, economic and strategic challenges it faces by embracing a series of reforms. These should include the EU’s pooling its defense procurement efforts, forging new trade deals and setting aside long-running disputes over migration from outside the bloc. Speaking

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking to portray as racist a U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest demonstration in Texas, saying he was was hostile toward social justice causes and looking for trouble before the encounter. Daniel Perry was convicted

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil giant Saudi Aramco has reported a first-quarter profit of $31.88 billion, down nearly 20% from the same period last year as energy prices have sunk over global recession concerns. The firm known formally as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. earned a $39.47 billion

By The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin has declared that the West has unleashed “a real war” against Russia. The Russian leader reprised the familiar refrain at scaled-down Victory Day celebrations that may reflect the toll the Ukraine conflict is taking on his forces. Putin’s remarks Tuesday came just hours after Moscow fired its latest

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Indian officials say security measures are keeping the peace in a remote northeastern state where 60 people were killed and 35,000 civilians were displaced by rioting and ethnic clashes last week. Manipur state’s chief minister said Monday around 230 people were injured and about 1,700 houses

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s self-exiled former prime minister says he wants to return home by July, declaring his desire less than a week before the country heads to polls in which his daughter is a frontrunner. Thaksin Shinawatra tweeted for the second time this month that he would like to come home to see his

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union marks its annual Europe Day celebration of peace and unity with Ukraine anxiously looking in from the wings. Ukraine wants to badly join the 27-nation bloc to anchor its future in the Western world. Next month, it will be one year since the existing

GENEVA (AP) — UBS says it’s bringing the CEO of Credit Suisse on to its executive board and will keep the two banks operating separately “for the foreseeable future” as it moves forward with a high-profile merger expected to close within two weeks. The two Zurich-based banks, longtime rivals, are uniting in a $3.25 billion

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares declined in muted trading Wednesday as investors awaited an upcoming report on inflation in the United States, an important indicator for where interest rates and global growth might go in the coming months. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.5% in morning trading to 29,105.27.

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The first British minister visiting Hong Kong in five years said his country will not “duck” its historic responsibilities to people living in its former colony while engaging with China in areas they share common interests. The remarks by Dominic Johnson were published in the South

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An international press-freedom group says the Israeli military has systematically evaded accountability in the deaths of 20 journalists over the past two decades. In a report Tuesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Israel typically launches slow and opaque investigations that have never resulted in prosecution or

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — The killing of 23-year-old Palestinian Zuhair al-Ghaleeth in West Bank city of Nablus on April 8 marked the first slaying of a suspected Israeli intelligence collaborator in nearly two decades. The case has riveted the Palestinian public, stoked fears of further vigilante-style violence and laid

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. says some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed and had restrictions placed on their movements since being banned by the Taliban from working for the world body. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers informed the United Nations early last month that Afghan women

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — There was no mourning tent for 23-year-old Palestinian Zuhair al-Ghaleeth. There were no banners with his portrait, no chants celebrating his martyrdom. Instead, a bulldozer dropped his bullet-riddled body into an unmarked grave, witnesses said. The day after six masked Palestinian gunmen shot and killed

BEIJING (AP) — China has announced the expulsion of a Canadian diplomat in retaliation for Ottawa ordering a Chinese consular official to leave over alleged threats he made against a Canadian lawmaker and his family. The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said China was deploying a “reciprocal countermeasure to Canada’s unscrupulous move.” It said the diplomat