Month: June 2023

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party, the winner of April’s general election, has unveiled its picks for key Cabinet posts in the upcoming government that observers say is set to be the most right-wing in the Nordic country’s recent history. Following lengthy talks over seven weeks, NCP announced

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — The architecture at Prada’s showroom shifts with every season, but never so fluidly as for Spring-Summer 2024 menswear. The collection was viewed through a wall of falling slime — a form of fluid architecture — that gathered on the metallic grate runway in piles of green

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared a national day of mourning for citizens who died when a fishing trawler packed with migrants sank off the Greek coast. As many as 750 people from Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian territories and Pakistan were on board the vessel, trying to reach relatives in Europe.

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On his first day as attorney general, Merrick Garland pledged a return to what he called the “norms” of the Justice Department and said he would work to eliminate the perception of political interference. But in the two years since he took office, the former federal judge

CAIRO (AP) — Family members say Moustafa Bassiouni, an intrepid photo assistant and driver for The Associated Press’ Cairo bureau, has died at age 64. They said Monday he died in a Cairo hospital on Saturday after experiencing a heart attack. Bassiouni, who started as a driver for the bureau in 1991, became a pillar

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a suburban Chicago parking lot that drew hundreds of people to celebrate Juneteenth, authorities said. TV news video showed the strip mall lot in Willowbrook filled with debris and police tape, about 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) southwest

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea. The interior ministers are traveling Sunday for talks with their counterpart in Tunisia and the country’s president. Tunisia is a major North African stepping stone for migrants

By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave. The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu spoke after reports in Israeli media said understandings are being reached between Washington and Tehran that would seek to hold back

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all. No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically has been won by governors, vice presidents, senators or Cabinet

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two days after being discharged from the hospital, Pope Francis resumed his cherished Sunday custom of greeting the public in St. Peter’s Square, expressing thanks for the comfort he received after surgery and thanking the crowd shouting “Long live the pope!” Before launching into prepared remarks,

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials say an overnight shooting in downtown St. Louis killed one teenager and wounded nine others. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Commissioner Robert Tracy on Sunday identified the victim who was killed as as 17-year-old Makao Moore. A spokesman says a minor who had a handgun is in police custody as a

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday began burying the victims of a brutal attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels that left 42 people dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo. One of

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian voters are casting ballots on whether to approve a new constitution. The coup leader in charge of the West African country says that Sunday’s referendum is one of the steps toward holding new elections in 2024. That’s been a key demand of the international community

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his government intends to move ahead on contentious plans to change the country’s judicial system after talks aimed at finding a compromise solution appeared to be crumbling. The government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary plunged Israel into one

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say they have foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathized with the extremist Islamic State group. The head of Austria’s domestic intelligence service told reporters Sunday that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive, British officials said Sunday. Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March, U.K.

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s warring parties have begun another attempt at a cease-fire after more than two months of brutal fighting — and ahead of an international conference to raise funds for humanitarian assistance. Residents in the capital, Khartoum, and its neighboring city of Omdurman reported “relative calm” in the