Month: June 2024

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have arrested six suspects in an international poaching ring targeting the Javan rhinoceros, a critically endangered species. Police say the suspects are part of a network that used homemade firearms to kill at least 26 Javan rhinos since 2018 to get their horns, which

By DAVID McHUGH and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union is moving to hike tariffs on electric vehicles made in China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and the Asian nation’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc.

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her son, musician Thomas Dutronc, announced the death on social media, sharing a poignant photo of himself as a child with her. Hardy, who had been battling lymphatic cancer since

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Multimillion-dollar works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama and Alberto Giacometti went on the market as the Art Basel fair opened in Switzerland. Thousands have flooded the exhibition center for VIP previews before doors open to public Thursday. More than 280 galleries exhibited everything from paintings and

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans are responding to Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges with some version of, “That’s it?” Loyal to Donald Trump, they largely echoed the former president’s claim that the Justice Department has treated President Joe Biden’s son with kid gloves while zealously

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case, Republicans’ latest and strongest rebuke of the Justice Department as partisan conflict over the rule of law

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a helicopter has crashed in southeastern Jiangxi province and three people on board are missing. The crash occurred Wednesday afternoon. Search and rescue efforts are underway. No other details were immediately given in a report by the Xinhua News Agency.

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School looms over campus behind a screened fence, a horrific and constant reminder to students, teachers, the victims’ families and passersby. But now after serving as evidence at

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, GISELA SALOMON and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A fleet of Russian warships reached Cuban waters on Wednesday ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean that some see as a projection of strength as tensions grow over Western support for Ukraine. The fleet, made up of a frigate,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland is at risk of becoming the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress. Republicans are moving to punish the Justice Department for refusing to turn over audio related to President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Contempt is among

NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal. Tor Books announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a two-book, $2 million contract with the science fiction/fantasy novelist. The first book, “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil,” is scheduled for June 2025. Schwab’s novel will span from 16th

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is celebrating what it considers a liberation day, marking the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Serb forces after a NATO bombing campaign. Thousands of ethnic Albanians had died under Serbian repression. Neighboring Serbia refuses to officially accept the independence of its

By PETER SMITH and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. The measure received support from 61% of the

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have launched new deadly attacks on Ukraine, killing at least nine people a day before a high-profile meeting where leaders of countries that are some of Ukraine’s biggest backers are to discuss how to slow Moscow’s offensive. Ukrainian authorities say that along with the

NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it has urged Russia to return Indian citizens recruited by Russia’s army after two were killed recently in the war in Ukraine. India previously said its authorities were in talks with Russia about the return of its citizens who it said had been duped into working for the Russian

By JEROME PUGMIRE and CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writers BERLIN (AP) — A recent surge in violence around soccer games is contributing to concerns over security when Germany hosts the European Championship. Some 22,000 police officers will be on duty each day for the tournament. This is the largest deployment for the federal police. German

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for allegedly helping a foreign intelligence agency to operate in the country. The Scandinavian nation’s domestic security service said Wednesday that the woman, who has not been named, faces preliminary charges of enabling a foreign intelligence service to operate in Denmark,

LONDON (AP) — The British economy failed to grow in April in a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made the return of growth a central pillar of the Conservative Party’s election campaign. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that wet weather dampened consumer spending and construction during the month. The flat

BERLIN (AP) — German energy company Uniper says a tribunal has awarded it more than 13 billion euros (nearly $14 billion) in damages for gas that Russia’s Gazprom hasn’t supplied since 2022. Uniper said Wednesday that the arbitration tribunal based in Stockholm also ruled on June 7 that it has the right to terminate long-term

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s government says the Alpine country’s next parliamentary election will be held on Sept. 29.  The government, which is coming to the end of its five-year term, made the announcement Wednesday. This comes in the wake of a narrow win by the far-right Freedom Party over Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s

By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The Malawi government says that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he was killed along with eight other people in a plane crash. President Lazarus Chakwera had already announced 21 days of national mourning on Tuesday, when the wreckage of

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has moved to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers. The EU’s executive arm said on Wednesday that it planned to impose provisional tariffs that would result in automakers in China facing additional