Month: June 2022

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency. In a statement Saturday, a WHO emergency committee said many aspects of the outbreak were “unusual” and acknowledged

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali is preparing the ground to return to constitutional rule following its last coup in 2020 after the junta leader Col. Assimi Goita signed a new law that paved the way for elections in the West African country. According to a copy of the new legislation

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Congo’s Catholic bishop say Pope Francis’ decision to go ahead with a trip to Canada was an “encouraging sign” that his knee treatment was working. The comment came as Congolese faithful, disappointed that Francis had canceled a planned visit next week, are holding out hope for a

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Medical examiners in West Virginia have released the names of six people killed in the crash of a Vietnam-era helicopter that gave tour rides. The aircraft crashed Wednesday during its last planned flight at a reunion for helicopter enthusiasts in Logan County. All six people aboard were killed. The state’s chief

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island police officer has been suspended from his job with pay while the Providence Police Department conducts a criminal investigation into his actions at a Statehouse abortion protest where a woman was assaulted. Providence police did not identify the officer, but local media identified him as Jeann Lugo, who

By DAVID KEYTON and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces were seeking to swallow up the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Luhansk region, pressing their momentum after taking full control Saturday of the charred ruins of Sievierodonetsk and the chemical plant where hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians had

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Army private charged with plotting to murder members of his unit overseas with help from a secretive violent anarchist group was planning a defense calling it all an internet fantasy before pleading guilty just before trial, court records show. Plans for the defense of Ethan

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s junta leader has signed a new law paving the way for elections and a return of the country to constitutional rule. Col. Assimi Goita has been president of the transitional government since seizing power in a coup two years ago. The law signed on Friday

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Loewe thrust Paris Fashion Week into a bleak and dystopian vision of the future. The fashion house on Saturday turned its runway into a dead space where nature and animal life only existed to be harnessed and exploited by humankind. A sanitized white wall descended onto

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn a constitutional right to abortion could lead to the loss of other rights. And he’s indicating that his country will continue to allow Americans to get abortions in Canada. Trudeau on Saturday called

By The Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion. Friday’s ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. In anticipation of the decision, several states led by Democrats have taken steps to protect abortion access.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury awarded $21 million to the family of a pregnant teen who was shot and killed by undercover police officers in Northern California five years ago, attorneys said. Elena Mondragon was a passenger in a BMW pulling out of a Hayward apartment complex when an unmarked van filled

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s office says he has arrived in Saudi Arabia on an official visit. An official had said earlier on Saturday that al-Kadhimi will be carrying a new initiative aimed at renewing Baghdad-mediated talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran. He spoke on condition

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police officer who died of neck injuries suffered during training had been beaten by fellow officers in an exercise meant to “simulate a mob,” according to a wrongful-death claim filed against the city by his mother. Houston Tipping, 32, was hurt May 26 at the police academy and