Month: June 2023

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s foreign ministry has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of its embassy positions in Bucharest by 51, bringing it in line with the size of Romania’s embassy staff in Moscow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that because some of the jobs at the Russian Embassy are

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry has finished setting out the royal’s case against a newspaper publisher. David Sherborne concluded his evidence by grilling former Daily Mirror royal correspondent Jane Kerr. He suggested to Kerr that some of the information in her stories came from phone hacking. Kerr

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Part fairy tale, part psychodrama, Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” (The Woman Without a Shadow) calls for three big-voiced sopranos who can do justice to a long and difficult score. That’s one reason the opera, which premiered in 1919, is a relative rarity, though many

PARIS Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform have failed to pass a repeal bill. It was their latest effort to maintain the retirement age at 62. Centrist opposition group LIOT decided to withdraw its bill a couple of hours after the heated debate started because the text had been emptied of its initial

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner is stepping down after four years in the role. Commissioner Michael S. Harrison’s departure was announced Thursday morning at a news conference held on short notice at City Hall. Harrison was appointed commissioner in 2019 and granted a five-year contract, which would have ended

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russia is urging judges at the United Nations’ highest court to throw out a case brought by Ukraine against Moscow focused on the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine in the years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Defiant as ever, many residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson who faced months of Russian occupation followed by months of Russian shelling are sticking it out after floodwaters from a ruptured dam upstream on the Dnieper River gushed through their streets and homes. The

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A report into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride festival last year says Norway’s domestic security agency had intelligence indicating an attack was imminent and could have prevented the bloodshed. The report released on Thursday focused on how the police and the Norwegian Police Security Service handled the June 25,

By SETH BORENSTEIN and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press An early bird El Nino has officially formed, likely to be strong, warp weather worldwide and give an already warming Earth an extra kick of natural heat, meteorologists announced. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday issued an El Nino advisory, announcing the arrival of the climatic

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s longtime president says he is taking “forced leave” after testing positive for COVID-19. President Yoweri Museveni said on Twitter that he was experiencing “mild symptoms” as he goes into isolation. Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986. He said Thursday that due to his positive test,

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but the labor market remains one of the healthiest parts of the U.S. economy. The Labor Department reported Thursday that U.S. applications for jobless claims were 261,000 for the week ending

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Budweiser will still be the official World Cup beer through the 2026 tournament in the United States. Brewer AB InBev has renewed with FIFA despite a troubled time with men’s 2022 World Cup host Qatar. Two days before the tournament began in Qatar World Cup organizers

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives. The announcement was made ahead of an official

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s death Thursday

By BABACAR DIONE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s president has ordered an investigation to determine who was responsible for protests by supporters of a political opponent that turned deadly last week but says he’s open to dialogue. President Macky Sall made his first remarks about the unrest while speaking at

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “Groundhog Day” is back. Again. The story of a jaded weatherman fated to live the same day over and over began as a beloved movie, then became an award-winning stage musical. On Thursday it opens at London’s Old Vic Theatre, where it first ran seven years ago.

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is launching legal action against Poland over a contentious new law that the nationalist government claims is meant to combat Russian influence. Critics say it could be used to persecute opposition politicians. The European Commission said Thursday it believes the law “unduly interferes with

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Five residents of a Russian-occupied city next to a breached dam have died in massive flooding triggered by the catastrophe, its Kremlin-appointed mayor said Thursday, the first official report of deaths from one of the largest environmental crises since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine