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Month: July 2024

Germany shuts one of its busiest rail routes for 5 months, launching drive to improve reliability

BERLIN (AP) — One of the busiest railway lines in Germany, the 70-kilometer stretch between Frankfurt and Mannheim, is closing for five months starting as the country launches an effort to get its notoriously disruption-prone network into shape. State-owned railway operator Deutsche Bahn is closing the route from July 15 to Dec. 14 and plans

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Man charged with two counts of murder after body parts found in suitcases on UK bridge

LONDON (AP) — A 34-year-old man has been charged with murdering two men whose remains were found in two suitcases in southwest England. Yostin Andres Mosquera appeared in court on Monday. London’s Metropolitan Police said that he has been charged with murdering 62-year-old Albert Alfonso and 71-year-old Paul Longworth. Police said the victims had previously been

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Provisional election results show Rwanda’s Kagame cruising to victory, an outcome that was expected

Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Rwanda’s presidential election, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power. Kagame’s opponents — Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of

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4 Pakistani soldiers and 5 insurgents are killed in coordinated suicide attacks at military facility

Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives-laden vehicle and some other insurgents opened fire near the outer wall of a military facility in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least four soldiers and wounding dozens. There was no immediate comment from the military about the early Monday attack that

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A decade after deadly MH17 crash, the father of one victim is still waiting for Russia to say sorry

Associated Press HILVERSUM, Netherlands (AP) — Quinn Schansman dreamed of becoming the youngest-ever CEO of an American company. A decade ago, he’d just finished the first year of an international business degree in Amsterdam as a step toward that lofty goal. But the 18-year-old dual Dutch American citizen’s future — whatever it may have held

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Expert calls NRA’s spending policies a ‘dumpster fire’ as gun group’s civil trial begins a new phase

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The second phase of the trial in a civil lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and its top executives is underway in New York. State Attorney General Letitia James is seeking an independent monitor to oversee the powerful gun rights group in Monday’s proceedings in Manhattan state court. The

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