Month: July 2023

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawyer for embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the Republican will not testify in his upcoming impeachment trial. Paxton is temporarily suspended from office pending the outcome of the trial that is scheduled to begin in September in the Texas Senate. His lead

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A French court has upheld the freezing of assets of Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor rejecting his appeal to have them released. An official close to the investigation made the announcement Tuesday. Riad Salameh has repeatedly denied charges of corruption. He had requested that his assets be

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Indonesia has pulled out of hosting another global sports event at short notice, three months after refusing to welcome Israel’s team for soccer’s Under-20 World Cup. The World Beach Games had been set to be staged in Bali in August but were canceled after the Indonesian government pulled the budget. The

By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A human rights group says the army, separatists and militias are committing abuses against civilians in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. A report by Amnesty International says the abuses include extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and torture. An armed conflict known as the Anglophone crisis began in

WALDORF, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a man stole a forklift from a Maryland home improvement store and killed a woman in the parking lot after ramming the car in which she was sleeping. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office says 20-year-old Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown has been charged with murder, assault, theft and other alleged

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the architects of the covert U.S. strategy against the Soviets in Afghanistan has published a new memoir. In “By All Means Available,” Michael Vickers calls on President Joe Biden’s administration to increase its support for Ukraine’s resistance against Russia. Vickers argues the U.S. can do

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of people with flowers have come to say goodbye to an award-winning Ukrainian writer who was killed by a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant in east Ukraine. The memorial service for Victoria Amelina was held in the crowded main hall of Saint-Michael’s Cathedral

COLFAX, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man may be well on his way to an official world record for pencils. Aaron Bartholmey of Colfax has been collecting wooden advertising pencils since he was a child. He now claims to have more than 70,000. That’s substantially more than the Guinness World Record for the largest pencil

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government has declared an end to the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and says people no longer have to wear masks in health and care centers as well as pharmacies. Spain has gradually ended the mandatory mask wearing, first in public and then on public transport over the

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Roger Federer has received a standing ovation of 1 1/2 minutes from spectators and Princess Kate as he entered the Royal Box at Centre Court during a brief ceremony honoring him for his men’s-record eight singles championships at Wimbledon. Wearing a cream-colored suit with his

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says she received an anonymous note alleging that her imprisoned husband, also an opposition figure, died behind bars. Siarhei Tsikhanouski was arrested in 2020 after announcing plans to run against Belarus’ authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, in presidential elections that year. His