Month: July 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive is taking Hungary to the EU’s highest court over a restrictive law  on LGBT issues. The EU had already tried for a year to make Hungary change a law that bans content portraying or promoting homosexuality. The European Commission said Friday that it “discriminates against people on the

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. The International Olympic Committee announced the change Friday on the 110th anniversary of

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unearthed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and a religious group that started in South Korea but has spread its influence around the world. Police and Japanese media have suggested that the alleged attacker, Tetsuya Yamagami, who was

BEIRUT (AP) — The regional director at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent says a truce that went into effect in April in war-torn Yemen has not improved humanitarian conditions in the country. Hossam Elsharkawi said Friday that the effects of the war in Ukraine on food and fuel prices are causing

By MARGARET STAFFORD and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Leaders in largely Democratic Kansas City, Missouri, don’t control the city’s police department, hire the police chief or determine how the department spends its tax dollars. A 1930s-era law gives that power to a five-member board largely appointed by the Missouri governor,

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner, who is jailed in Russia on drug charges, presented a court on Friday with a doctor’s letter recommending she use cannabis to treat pain. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and standout for the Phoenix Mercury, was arrested at

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of parliament has approved a historical memory law that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco and makes the central government responsible for the recovery of the bodies of tens of thousands of people killed in the Spanish Civil War or

By KIKO ROSARIO Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied the accusations in an election fraud charge against her when she testified for the first time on the case Friday at the prison court in the capital Naypyitaw, a legal official said. The army seized power from Suu Kyi’s

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through debris in a central Ukrainian city on Friday looking for people still missing after a Russian missile strike a day earlier that killed at least 23 people. Russian forces, meanwhile, pounded other sites in a painstaking push to wrest

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iraqis have gathered in Baghdad to perform a mass prayer called for by an influential Shiite cleric. Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr arrived to the capital Friday from across the country filling up Sadr City’s main thoroughfare. The event is expected to be among