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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, has registered for the country’s June 28 presidential election. Monday marked the last day of registration for the competition. Other politicians have been rumored as potential candidates in the vote to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died in
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has reappointed Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly to form a new government. Madbouly earlier on Monday submitted his government’s resignation, two months after el-Sissi was sworn in for a third, six-year term. It is customary for the government to resign at the start of a fresh presidential mandate.
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press GOMBE, Nigeria (AP) — Africa’s most populous country has ground to a halt as Nigeria’s largest labor unions begin striking to demand a salary increase amid the worst cost of living crisis in decades. Electricity has been cut and major airports closed. President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms — including ending
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment. The 74-year-old Texas Democrat is seeking a 16th term and said late Sunday that she’s confident that doctors have developed a strong plan to target her disease. Jackson Lee says it’s likely that she
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE KOMOR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead arrived with other journalists in southern England to cover the Allies’ imminent D-Day invasion of Normandy, a U.S. commander offered them a no-nonsense welcome. “We’ll do everything we can to help you get your stories and to take care of
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A foreign citizen has been detained in Romania’s capital after allegedly attacking the entrance of the Israeli Embassy with a Molotov cocktail. The attack caused a small fire but no casualties, local media and police reported. A 34-year-old man was apprehended by antiterrorism officers from the Romanian Intelligence Service before police
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection is to begin Monday in a federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter after the collapse of a deal with prosecutors that would have avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON, PAUL HARLOFF and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets. The median pay package
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police are searching for the suspects who spray-painted the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country’s war dead. The act apparently was a protest against the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Videos posted on Chinese social media
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York say two city police officers and a 19-year-old man were shot and wounded in a confrontation and have been hospitalized. Mayor Eric Adams says one of the officers was saved by his bullet-resistant vest. Officials say the officers pursued the man while he was driving an unregistered,
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German tour operator FTI says it is filing for insolvency protection from creditors, and trips that haven’t yet started will be canceled or scaled back. FTI Group, which describes itself as Europe’s third-biggest tour operator, said parent company FTI Touristik GmbH, was filing for insolvency at a Munich court on Monday. It
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press For its annual analysis of CEO pay, The Associated Press used data provided by Equilar, an executive data firm. Equilar examined regulatory filings detailing the pay packages of 341 executives. Equilar looked at companies in the S&P 500 index that filed proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and April 30,
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer More women are attaining the top job at companies in the S&P 500, but their numbers are still minuscule compared to their male counterparts. Of the 341 CEOs included in the AP’s annual compensation survey, 25 are women. That’s the most women making the list since the survey began
Continue ReadingBy BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Christian man who was accused of blasphemy and attacked by a mob has died of injuries. More than 100 Muslims were arrested last month and charged under anti-terrorism laws for assaulting a Christian father and son over allegations they desecrated pages of
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The death toll in floods across a large part of southern Germany has risen to two as the body of a missing woman was found. Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the flooded region on Monday and officials warned that water levels could rise further in some areas. Police said the body of the
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The once-blighted monolithic Michigan Central train station — for decades a symbol of Detroit’s decline — has new life following a massive six-year, multimillion-dollar renovation to create a hub for mobility projects in the rebirth of the Motor City. The windowless, hulking, scavenger-ravaged structure that ominously shadowed
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has apologized for massive cheating on certification tests for seven vehicle models. The fraudulent testing at Japan’s top automaker involved the use of inadequate or outdated data in collision tests and incorrect testing of airbag inflation and rear-seat damage in crashes. Engine
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the Philippine president on Monday in a rare Asian trip to urge regional leaders to attend a Swiss-organized global peace summit on the war in Ukraine that he accuses Russia, with China’s help, of trying to undermine. Zelenskyy arrived unannounced
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cost of your next flight is likely to go up. That’s the word from the International Air Transport Association, which held its annual meeting Monday in Dubai, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates. While carriers recover from the groundings worldwide from the coronavirus
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say gunmen opened fire on polio workers in the country’s northwest, killing a police officer assigned to protect them. At least 11 police have died this year while on security duty for vaccination campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police say gunmen fired at a team on Monday in the
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