Month: July 2023

BERLIN (AP) — Police say seven people were detained after several shop windows in the Swiss city of Lausanne were smashed as young people gathered in an “echo” of riots in neighboring France. Police said Sunday that more than 100 people gathered in downtown Lausanne in French-speaking western Switzerland on Saturday evening. A police statement

BALTIMORE (AP) — In a story published July 2, 2023, about a mass shooting in Baltimore, The Associated Press, quoting police, misspelled the last name of the woman killed. Her correct name was Aaliyah Gonzalez, not Aaliyah Gonzales.

By CARA ANNA, NICOLAS GARRIGA and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The grandmother of the French teenager shot dead by police during a traffic stop pleaded Sunday for rioters to stop after five nights of unrest, while authorities expressed outrage at an attack on a suburban mayor’s home that injured family members. The

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics also make it an especially dangerous holiday, typically resulting in more than 10,000 trips to the emergency room. Yet fireworks remain at the center of

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say Atlanta Police Department motorcycles have been damaged in an intentional fire caused by devices set inside the parking deck of a training facility. WANF-TV reports the Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a multi-vehicle fire around 2:20 a.m. Saturday and found multiple motorcycles on fire.

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement. A Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded over Israeli territory, the Israeli military said, prompting another round of strikes. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan’s enthusiasm for beauty pageants is unparalleled, and Miss Venezuela — the crown jewel of them all — may be the only event able to unite the deeply divided country. Once a year, class, race and politics are put aside as the South American nation

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage. Efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa were shaken when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the national

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MATÍAS DELACROIX Associated Press CHUAO, Venezuela (AP) — Dozens of people hop onto boats every day along Venezuela’s vast Caribbean coast to go fishing on 12-hour shifts. Their tanned bodies have scars or are missing fingers after years of fishing. Most of them are men, but in the coastal communities

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the second time in less than three weeks. The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was not formally notified but became aware on Friday of the bus dispatched from Brownsville, Texas, to L.A.

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is again calling on foreign governments with strong security forces to help Haiti fight a surge in gang violence. The appeal was made Saturday after Guterres met with Prime Minister Ariel Henry, civil society leaders, U.N. staff and the heads of various

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform. The site is now requiring people to log on to view tweets and profiles —

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to a massive crowd gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing summer weekend. “There’s nowhere else I’d rather be to kick off the