Month: June 2023

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — In a story published June 20, 2023, about the indictment of rapper Quando Rondo, The Associated Press misidentified the rapper’s attorney. He is Jonah Pine, not Joshua Pine.

BERLIN (AP) — A German rail workers’ union says it will ask its members to vote on all-out strike action after long-running salary talks with the main national railway operator broke down. The EVG union has already staged hours-long or one-day “warning strikes,” a common tactic in German wage negotiations. But it’s now threatening to

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — You know you’ve made a cultural impact when Henry Kissinger quotes your own joke back to you. That’s what happened to Billy Crystal, one of five iconic artists selected for this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. The others selected for the lifetime artistic achievement award are rapper and

By CARLA BRIDI and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s top electoral court has started hearing a case that could torpedo the political future of former President Jair Bolsonaro by rendering him ineligible for public office for eight years. Judges are evaluating a case filed by Brazil’s Democratic Labor Party, which claims

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A new report accuses Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of tampering with police records in order to hamper investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he was a military officer at the height of a bloody Marxist insurrection in 1989. The report

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says it’s “critical” the U.S. and China maintain a relationship so they can “work together” on global challenges. It comes after President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” drew condemnation from Beijing. Speaking at a news conference Thursday, Yellen said

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian ex-priest convicted of child sex abuse has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 72nd victim. Gerald Ridsdale has been in prison since 1994. The 89-year-old is bedridden and serving a 39-year sentence for a series of convictions for abusing children between 1961 and 1988 while he worked as a

By SUZAN FRASER and AYSE WIETING Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish central bank has delivered a large interest rate increase, signaling a shift toward more conventional economic policies to counter sky-high inflation. The bank on Thursday raised its key rate by 6.5 percentage points, boosting it to 15%. The increase — a

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny contesting prison regulations that allow prison officials to deprive him of stationery and pens. Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court in a maximum security penal colony in Melekhovo 250 kilometers (150 miles)

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For scores of children who grew up in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean in the 1950s and 60s, barrels of gifts that arrived at Christmastime were the only connection they had with their parents, who were thousands of miles away in Britain in search of better

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has met with the head of the International Monetary Fund in Paris on the sidelines of the global financing summit in a last-ditch effort to unlock a $6 billion bailout package to help avoid a default. The IMF deal expires

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An explosion damaged a bridge that is one of the few links between Crimea and Ukraine’s mainland, Russia-backed officials said Thursday, as the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive unfold. Russia-backed officials say an explosion Thursday damaged a bridge that is one of the few links between Crimea and the Ukrainian

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has ruled that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late August, rejecting the American journalist’s appeal to be released. The 31-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested in late March while on a reporting trip. A Moscow court agreed last month

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — European Union officials say there is a growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in Europe due to climate change. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Thursday that because heat waves and flooding are becoming more frequent and