Month: April 2024

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s influential former President Álvaro Uribe has denounced as “vengeance” a move by national prosecutors to…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has extended exemptions to tourist visa requirements for…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves as well…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican —…

By ERIC W. BOLIN The Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Fireworks went off as new Arkansas men’s basketball coach John Calipari was…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If you’re in the market for a used car and want to score a nice discount, consider getting a plug-in hybrid vehicle that…

By GERALD HERBERT and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Severe storms blamed for a death in Mississippi spawned a tornado that…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people. The shaman, Davi…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have extended the deadline for a preliminary probe into the still…

By The Associated Press The Green Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season game in Brazil on Sept.…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland says it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government has announced steps to bolster its “too big to fail” rules aimed to avoid…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep tells The Associated Press she was nervous while flying to her first…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press OXFORD, England (AP) — The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the stuff of movies: Two friends vow to marry each other if they’re not…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescuers on the eastern Greek island of Chios have recovered the bodies of three girls who died after a boat carrying…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed a GOP-backed criminal justice bill that would…

NEW YORK (AP) — Marisha Pessl’s first novel in six years is a psychological thriller with the kinds of intricate clues and connections she has…

Jessica Alba, who shot to fame in the James Cameron television series “Dark Angel,” as well as films such as “Sin City” and the “Fantastic…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say a Lebanese man sanctioned by the U.S. for his alleged links with Palestinian group…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) — Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ramírez has prayed by…