Year: 2021

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has filed his candidacy for a Senate seat in next year’s elections, walking back his vow to retire from politics when his term ends. The announcement prompted rights groups to say he is working to evade accountability for his deadly anti-drug campaign

By GRANT PECK and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster is on his way home from military-ruled Myanmar. Fenster spent nearly six months in jail and was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. On Monday, he was handed over to former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who helped

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell from “a great height” and one of them died. Those arrested are a man and a woman, police said. The children who were reportedly were siblings and both under the age of 10, were rushed

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria has taken what its leader called the “dramatic” step of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19. It’s perhaps the most drastic of a string of measures being taken by European governments to get a massive regional resurgence of the coronavirus

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin have talked on the phone about the need to deescalate the tensions around the migrant pressure on the European Union’s border with Belarus and about the need for humanitarian aid there.  They talked as the EU is expanding

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CHIOS, Greece (AP) — Among the inmates of Chios prison, nestled in the warren of narrow streets of this Greek island’s main town, three young men from Afghanistan and Somalia are serving dramatically long sentences: 50 years for two of them, a staggering 142 for the third. But these are