DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates will host the women’s Twenty20 World Cup in October after the International Cricket Council moved the tournament from Bangladesh. More than 300 people were killed in an uprising in Bangladesh that started in July. Games will now take place in Dubai and Sharjah for the
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tamirat Tola and Hellen Obiri will look to defend their New York City Marathon titles this November. The pair headline strong fields in the annual race around New York’s five boroughs. Tola is coming off a win at the Paris Games where he set an Olympic record in
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — The foreign and defense ministers of India and Japan have held security talks in New Delhi to bolster their strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific as they seek to counter an increasingly assertive China. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar headed the Indian delegation, while the Japanese side
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Multiple pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested Tuesday after clashing with police during a protest that began outside the Israeli consulate and spilled out onto the surrounding streets on the second night of the Democratic National Convention. The intense confrontations with officers began minutes into the demonstration, after some protesters – many
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts are searching for six missing passengers and crew, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht that was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly sank off Sicily. The sleek Bayesian yacht
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the former president of Haiti, Michel Joseph Martelly, following accusations that he abused his influence to facilitate drug trafficking into the U.S. and sponsored gangs that have contributed to instability in the Caribbean country. Treasury’s Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Bradley
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Disney is no longer asking a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the victim’s family had signed up for its streaming service Disney+. The company filed a notice in Orange County court on Tuesday to withdraw the motion, which had drawn swift backlash
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled to extend the pre-trial detention of three lawyers who once represented Russia’s slain opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, and are now facing charges of extremism. The court also refused to transfer their case to a different court, even as the defense alleged a conflict of interest. Vadim Kobzev,
Continue ReadingFLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A jury has found a sheriff in South Carolina not guilty of violating a jail inmate’s civil rights when he ordered a deputy to shock the man several times with a Taser. Prosecutors say Marlboro County Sheriff Charles Lemon ordered a deputy to use his Taser to shock the inmate with
Continue ReadingAP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A high-profile spat between the United Auto Workers and Stellantis over reopening an Illinois factory complex has made its way into the race for U.S. president and could bring a strike against the automaker. In a speech at the Democratic National Convention Monday night, union President Shawn Fain accused
Continue ReadingPANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama has deported 29 Colombians on a flight that the government says is the first paid for by the United States under an agreement the two countries signed in July. The Colombians had entered Panama illegally through the Darien jungle, a path used by more than 500,000 migrants headed north last
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media say authorities closed down the last language institute certified by the German Embassy in retaliation for the shuttering of Islamic centers in the European country. A report by Nournews.ir, believed to be close to Iran’s security bodies, published a photo of police forces taking down the sign showcasing the
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A superyacht that sank off the Sicilian coast during a storm left six passengers missing, including British tech kingpin Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah. Lynch was acquitted in June in a U.S. fraud case and was apparently aboard the yacht with some of the people who stood by
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating. Christopher Columbus’ three ships — the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María — will
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Experts meet in Bangkok this week to advance what would be the first international treaty to tackle the surging problem of plastic pollution. Final treaty negotiations take place in South Korea in November. Yet most of the people who have been closely tracking the negotiations — environmentalists, tribal leaders and residents from communities
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says that about 25,000 police officers will be deployed every day in Paris and beyond to watch over the Paralympic Games, in line with the security implemented during the Olympics. The Paralympics are to be held from Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 in the French capital and nearby sites.
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The four stars who helped shape the new musical “Swept Away” — John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall — will steer the nautical tale to the commercial waves of Broadway. The tale about four men stranded in the Atlantic Ocean after a 19th-century
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t on the ballot — but his education agenda is. DeSantis is once again throwing his weight behind county school board candidates across the state. Though the seats are officially nonpartisan, the Republican governor has endorsed 23 school board candidates on the ballot
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A rocket engine has exploded during a test launch at a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands off northern Scotland. German manufacturer Rocket Factory Augsburg, or RFA, said no one was injured in the incident at SaxaVord Spaceport on the remote island of Unst on Monday evening. Video of Monday’s test launch
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities on the southern Greek island of Crete have detained 76 migrants after they arrived on three boats as smugglers seek new routes in the region to evade coast guard patrols. The migrants, from Syria, Egypt, Sudan, and Bangladesh, included six children and arrived before dawn Tuesday on the tiny island
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