Month: August 2023

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The French military says a French soldier serving alongside Iraqi forces was killed in combat during an anti-terrorist operation north of Baghdad. Such losses among foreign forces in Iraq have been rare in recent years. Two Iraqi soldiers and four other French troops were also wounded in

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say they detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding. It is one of the largest mass detentions targeting homosexuality, which is outlawed in the country. A police spokesman says the suspects were arrested in southern Delta state’s Ekpan town at about

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MÉXICO CITY (AP) — Long before it was confiscated by President Daniel Ortega’s government in mid-August, the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua was a special place for the thousands whose minds and lives it transformed. “The university was the only center of independent thought left in the

By YUCHENG TANG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Three Thai human rights activists have been acquitted of criminally defaming a poultry company with social media posts that supported other activists who had accused it of abusive labor practices. They were charged under a law that could have led to a 42-year prison sentence if convicted.

BERLIN (AP) — A Munich court has sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. Tuesday’s decision replaced an earlier prison sentence

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus say they have arrested 21 people and used tear gas and a water cannon after a group of Greek Cypriots wearing hoods and brandishing sticks tried to attack Syrian migrants. The violence occurred in a small village that has been a hotbed of tensions between locals and migrants.

A German-Russian dual citizen has been arrested in Germany on allegations of violating the country’s foreign trade act multiple times by exporting electronic components to a company in Russia involved in the production of military materiel and accessories. Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that the suspect was arrested in March. The federal prosecutor’s office

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United States has signed a new agreement with Palau, which gives Coast Guard ships the authorization to unilaterally enforce maritime regulations in the tiny Pacific island nation’s exclusive economic zone. The agreement announced Tuesday comes as both the U.S. and China are seeking to expand their

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Anthony Albanese says he expects public support for creating a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament will grow after he focuses the nation’s minds on the issue by setting a date for Australia’s first referendum in a generation. Albanese will announce on Wednesday a date

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A private burial was held for Yevgeny Prigozhin, ending a tumultuous journey from St. Petersburg street thug to Kremlin-financed mercenary leader, following a suspicious plane crash two months after his brief mutiny that challenged the authority of President Vladimir Putin. His spokespeople said Tuesday a service took place behind closed

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A massive wildfire was burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day Tuesday despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft from Greece and several of its European Union partners. After burning across vast tracts of land, the blaze in

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter says he is suffering from stress and fatigue but is in good spirits, as criticism grows of his transfer to a hospital just hours after he began serving an eight-year prison sentence. Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 military

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The Rugby World Cup will take place against the backdrop of a concussion lawsuit that has similarities to one settled by the NFL in 2013 at a likely cost of more than $1 billion. A growing number of rugby players in their 30s and 40s contend the sport’s governing

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says she rebuffed an appeal by Chinese leaders to reduce U.S. export controls on technology with possible military uses. But Raimondo says the two governments agreed to have experts meet to discuss disputes over protecting trade secrets. During a visit to