BERLIN (AP) — Far-left supporters of a woman sentenced to prison for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other extremists clashed with police in the eastern German city of Leipzig over the weekend. The violence left 50 officers injured. Saturday’s planned protest among backers of the 28-year-old woman was banned by the city of Leipzig.
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti. Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and officials have done little, or worse. Now, the people are taking action and a
Continue Reading AURORA, Mo. (AP) — Four people died and seven others were seriously injured when a car crossed the center line of a Missouri highway and struck five motorcycles. The accident happened Saturday afternoon on Missouri Route 39 near the southwestern Missouri town of Aurora. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a Toyota Corolla crossed the
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — A 25-year-old woman was fatally shot and six other people were wounded early Sunday when gunfire erupted in Chicago during a remembrance for a man who died in a car crash, police said. A large group of people had gathered about 1 a.m. to mark four years since a man’s fatal crash
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he’ll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker. Todd, 51, told viewers that “I’ve watched too many friends and family
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader has defended his tough approach to the West, saying compromise would only invite further hostility from Iran’s enemies. He went on to blame recent anti-government protests on “thugs and villains.” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks Sunday come amid an intensifying standoff with Western countries over Iran’s nuclear
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden promised voters in 2020 that he knew how to get things done in Washington and could bring stability to the capital. It seemed like a message out of step with the more combative era brought on by Donald Trump. But Biden prevailed,
Continue Reading COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of members of Sri Lanka’s LGBTQ+ community have paraded through the streets of the capital Colombo to mark the Pride month and demand an end to discrimination. The marchers on Sunday carried rainbow flags and placards calling for a ban of so-called conversion therapies, an end of police harassment
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Orthodox believers celebrated Trinity Sunday with Russia’s most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow’s main cathedral despite the keepers’ vociferous protests. The Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev, which was kept in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s, was moved to Christ the Savior Cathedral before the holiday on President
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday. Navalny turned 47 on Sunday while serving a nine-year sentence at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow. He was convicted of fraud and contempt of court. He
Continue Reading By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In his first week on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly hit his chief rival, Donald Trump, from the right. “This is a different guy than 2015, 2016,” DeSantis told a conservative radio host before slamming the bipartisan criminal justice
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature is underway more than a year after the West African nation’s president dissolved parliament. The Centre for Democracy and Development, an African human rights organization, said nearly 1 million voters were registered to elect more than 100
Continue Reading A landslide tore through a mining company’s worker dormitory early Sunday morning in southwestern China, killing 19 people, authorities said. The disaster struck in a mountainous rural district of Sichuan province’s Leshan county, where rains have been falling constantly for weeks. More than 180 people were mobilized to help find those buried under the debris
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany has killed one person and injured at least 10 others. Police in the German state of Thuringia said the fire broke out around 5 a.m. Sunday at a facility in the city of Apolda and that one body had been recovered from the
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United States have urged Sudan’s warring parties to agree to and “effectively implement” a cease-fire amid renewed fighting in the northeastern African nation. In a joint statement on Sunday, Washington and Riyadh urged both sides to agree to a new cease-fire following the
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry announced early Monday its forces had thwarted a large Ukrainian attack in the eastern province of Donetsk, though it’s unclear if this was the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The ministry, in a rare early morning video, said its forces pushed back a
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter’s ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public’s imagination. After years of speculation, Apple CEO Tim Cook
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China has tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on the anniversary of 1989 pro-democracy protests. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, police detained 32 people on Saturday and Sunday. Many of them were brought away around Victoria Park. The large public space used
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A spokesperson for Egypt’s Suez Canal says a tanker transporting crude oil broke down in the canal, briefly disrupting traffic in the global waterway. The Malta-flagged Seavigour suffered a mechanical malfunction while transiting the canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea on Sunday. The canal
Continue Reading PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack in northwest Pakistan that left two soldiers and two militants dead. The army said in a statement that militants opened fire on a security checkpoint Saturday evening in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, leading to a shootout with Pakistani troops.
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