Month: May 2023

BERLIN (AP) — A central figure in a German tax evasion scandal has been convicted and sentenced to more than eight years in prison, the second verdict against him in the space of a few months. The Wiesbaden state court on Tuesday convicted German lawyer Hanno Berger of three counts of tax evasion and gave

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform. It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day Tuesday.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Tuesday’s eighth anniversary of one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau, by attending a memorial Mass and visiting his gravesite. Biden, his wife, Jill, and other family members prayed for Beau Biden during the Mass

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Tuesday that Tesla disabled the feature called “passenger play” with an online software update in December of 2021,

BEIJING (AP) — Prospects for a renewed military dialogue between China and the U.S. remain dim, with Beijing saying their defense chiefs will not hold a bilateral meeting while both are attending a weekend security conference in Singapore. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Tuesday blamed the U.S., saying Washington should respect China’s sovereignty and

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has met Tesla CEO Elon Musk and said U.S.-Chinese relations require “mutual respect” while touting the promise of the country’s electric vehicle industry. U.S.-Chinese relations are especially tense after Washington shot down a Chinese balloon that was believed to be gathering intelligence and

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A humanitarian charity says that hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly. Doctors Without Borders or MSF said Tuesday that 2,786 refugees have been affected so far “and there is an imminent risk of outbreaks of

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Boris Johnson was U.K. prime minister, he established an independent inquiry into his government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the inquiry wants to see what Johnson wrote to other U.K. officials as the outbreak raged. But the government is fighting a demand to hand over

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say three patients have died in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in a town just outside Vienna. The blaze started in a fourth-floor room at the hospital in Moedling, and rescuers were unable to save three men who were in that room. It wasn’t immediately clear

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet If you’re struggling to keep up with payments or save toward a goal, continuing to use a credit card for all purchases can hinder financial progress. Credit card rewards or other incentives don’t hold as much value when you’re carrying a hefty balance and paying steep interest charges. By taking

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency says international inspectors have closed off two lines of inquiry into Tehran’s nuclear program ahead of a scheduled quarterly report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, however, did not immediately respond to questions

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that the government’s policy against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, in a closely watched decision that supporters say is a step toward marriage equality. The ruling is the second that found that the government’s denial of same-sex marriage violates the constitution, while two