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Month: August 2023

Russia unleashes a country-wide missile barrage on Ukraine as Putin addresses security conference

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed missiles across Ukraine early on Tuesday, killing and wounding civilians and damaging infrastructure. The barrage came just hours before top Russian military officials and their counterparts from allied countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa gathered outside Moscow for

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A human rights group in Niger says it can’t get access to officials who were detained after coup

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Human rights activists in Niger say they have been unable to gain access to top political officials who were detained after mutinous soldiers ousted the African nation’s democratically elected president. The executive secretary of a Nigerien human rights groups says the military officers who carried out

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US universities launch partnership to elevate free speech to counter threats to democracy

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The presidents of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new nonprofit initiative announced Tuesday. The Institute for Citizens & Scholars launched the initiative with funding from the Knight Foundation in response to what organizers see as threats to U.S. democracy.

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Trump property manager pleads not guilty

By Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — Carlos de Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple obstruction-related offenses tied to former President Donald Trump’s alleged unlawful retention of documents after leaving office, including classified material at Trump’s Florida resort. De Oliveira, 56, was accompanied by his attorney at the arraignment, which lasted

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Opera world split as director reinventions dominate Europe while US, Italy more muted

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — The opera world is split in two: Some European productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, and traditional stagings favored in the U.S. are condemned by cognoscenti. Martin Kušej’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” in Salzburg includes cocaine-fueled fights, a predator priest, a nearly naked hooker

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Death toll rises to 10 in powerful explosion near capital of Dominican Republic; 11 others missing

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN CRISTOBAL, Dominican Republic (AP) — The death toll from a powerful explosion near the Dominican Republic’s capital rose Tuesday to 10 with dozens injured, as firefighters searched through smoldering rubble and people cried outside hospitals looking for missing loved ones. President Luis Abinader visited San

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Mar-a-Lago property manager pleads not guilty to charges in Trump’s classified documents case

By CURT ANDERSON and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to scheming with Donald Trump to try to delete security footage sought by investigators probing the former president’s hoarding of classified documents. An attorney for De Oliveira entered the plea on his

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