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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s central bank has promised improvements and warned against currency manipulation after an international watchdog put the military-controlled country on a terrorism and financial crimes blacklist. The Financial Action Task Force recommended that Myanmar be put on the list of countries requiring stronger due diligence. It cites deficiencies in Myanmar’s enforcement of
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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s central bank has promised improvements and warned against currency manipulation after an international watchdog put the military-controlled country on a terrorism and financial crimes blacklist. The Financial Action Task Force recommended that Myanmar be put on the list of countries requiring stronger due diligence. It cites deficiencies in Myanmar’s enforcement of
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top court on Monday rejected an appeal by the only known survivor of a far-right group against her conviction and life sentence for her part in the killing of 10 people, most with migrant roots. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Beate Zschaepe had failed to demonstrate that her fundamental judicial
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová and Sugam Pokharel, CNN Former finance minister Rishi Sunak will be the United Kingdom’s next prime minister after seeing off his lone remaining rival in the fast-tracked race to become Conservative party leader on Monday. The other potential candidate, Penny Mordaunt, conceded after failing to meet the threshold of nominations from
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — A leading human rights group says hundreds of Syrian men and boys have been detained, beaten and forcibly returned to their country by Turkish authorities over a six-month period. The treatment of migrants living in Turkey under temporary protection is a breach of international law, New York-based Human Rights Watch says in
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston, CNN Republicans’ path to control of the US House winds through suburbs like the ones that ring the sprawling metropolis of Las Vegas here in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, where Democratic Rep. Susie Lee is fighting for a third term. During the presidency of Donald Trump, the GOP lost significant ground in
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell Jury selection begins Monday in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud and grand larceny trial in New York, a symbolic moment following years of investigations that places former President Donald Trump‘s business before a jury. Trump is not a defendant in the case and is not expected to be implicated in any
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Hilary Whiteman, CNN The United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) suspended its tour of Australian prisons on Sunday, citing a lack of cooperation from officials who denied them access to some detention facilities. In a statement, the SPT said its staff were prevented from entering some places where
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Max Verstappen fought back after pit-stop drama to win the US Grand Prix on Sunday, handing Red Bull the constructors’ championship on an emotional weekend for the team. The Dutchman’s victory came just one day after it was announced that owner and co-founder of Red Bull, Dietrich Mateschitz, had died aged
Continue ReadingBy Jessica DuLong, CNN Straight away, Nora McInerny noticed core differences in how people responded to the coronavirus pandemic. For some, the deadly virus and its upheaval constituted the “first big thing they’d ever been through.” Meanwhile, McInerny and others whose lives had been shaped by grief, loss or tragedy had long known that “life
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN When Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United last summer, he was accompanied by so much fanfare that his iconic No.7 jersey became the fastest selling jersey of all time, outstripping those sold by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when Tom Brady joined or the LA Lakers when they signed LeBron James. But
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is strong favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister within days — or even hours — after former leader Boris Johnson dropped out of the Conservative Party leadership contest. After the resignation of Liz Truss last week, the governing party is choosing
Continue Reading By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan officials have reported 11 cases of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, since Friday, a worrisome increase in infections just over a month after an outbreak was declared in a remote part of the East African country. Nine more people in the Kampala metropolitan area tested
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean region has told staff in an email that he is “very disturbed” by allegations reported by The Associated Press that the U.N. health agency’s Syria director misspent millions, abused staff and violated the organization’s own COVID-19 protocols
Continue Reading By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The final meeting of African nations’ climate negotiators ahead of the global U.N. summit kicks off in the Namibian capital Windhoek on Monday, with participants expected to focus on how to ramp up renewable energy on the continent. Organizers of the annual Climate Change and Development
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By Sonya Hamasaki, Elizabeth Wolfe and Tina Burnside, CNN The man who allegedly shot and killed two employees in the maternity ward of a Dallas hospital was in the building to attend the birth of his child, authorities said. Nestor Hernandez, 30, was arrested on Saturday and is facing capital murder charges after authorities say
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The head of a German parliamentary delegation visiting Taiwan says any changes to the China-Taiwan relationship must occur peacefully. The call came after China’s ruling Communist Party wrote its rejection of Taiwan independence into its party constitution on Saturday. The German delegation met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at her office on
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military has long had a cozy relationship with Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Those ties are about to deepen. For the first time, a settler will serve as chief of staff of Israel’s military, becoming the enforcer of Israel’s open-ended occupation of the West Bank,
Continue Reading By SHEIKH SAALIQ and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians across the country are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. Streets and homes are lit up with colorful lights and earthen oil lamps. Ahead of Monday’s celebrations, millions of Indians thronged crowded bazaars for shopping,
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The doctors are preparing for cold days in the basement. They already spent four months performing surgeries there this year, from the war’s early days until well into the Russian occupation of Izium. At least they can expect the generator to
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