Month: July 2022

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Around 1 million people have turned out for the Pride parade in the western German city of Cologne either to participate or to watch the colorful festivities. Around 180 LGBTQ groups and music floats are taking part in the parade through the city center on Sunday. That’s more than ever before.

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — West African leaders are attending as their regional bloc pursues its efforts to resolve the political impasse in the coup-hit nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. A summit last month of the Economic Community of West African States put off imposing further economic and financial

ROME (AP) — Alpine rescuers in Italy say a chunk of a glacier has broken loose and slid down a mountainside and barreled into more than a dozen hikers on a popular trail on the peak. Italian state TV said that four bodies were found and at least seven people were injured. The National Alpine

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Cash-strapped Sri Lanka has extended school closures for one week because there isn’t enough fuel for teachers and parents to get children to classrooms. The energy minister has appealed to the country’s expatriates to send money home through banks to finance new oil purchases. A

By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When drastic increases in food costs spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic left Andrew Caplinger struggling to find fresh catfish for his restaurants, he decided to try “an experimental” solution — growing his own. In the coming months, the Indianapolis restaurant chain Caplinger’s Fresh Catch Seafood

By VALENTINA PETROVA and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Russian diplomat says two airplanes are set to depart Bulgaria with scores of Russian diplomatic staff and their families amid a mass expulsion that has sent relations soaring between the two historically close nations. At the airport in the capital Sofia, Filip

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Butterflies and waxbills flit through the Enchanted Valley just outside Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park. There are fruit trees, a nearby waterfall and a commanding view out over the Atlantic Ocean. But for decades something was spoiling the idyll: the stench of raw

By MIKE FULLER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British theater and film director Peter Brook has died at age 97. Brook was known for an influential and distinguished career which saw him garner worldwide acclaim. The two-time Tony Award winner had settled in France decades ago. Brook directed the film adaptations of his best stage

NEW YORK (AP) — The ex-boyfriend of a New York City woman shot dead as she pushed their infant daughter in a stroller has been ordered jailed without bail in a shooting prosecutors described as a “premeditated execution.” Isaac Argro appeared Saturday night in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree weapons