PRAGUE (AP) — Czech authorities say an Indian national has been extradited to the United States to face charges of murder for hire and conspiracy to commit murder for hire in connection with an alleged plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader in New York. The Czech justice minister said Nikhil Gupta was extradited on
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband will deliver remarks at the groundbreaking of the memorial to victims of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Doug Emhoff is the first Jewish person to serve as the spouse of a nationally elected U.S. leader and has been outspoken on
Continue ReadingBy Sergey Gudkov and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — A US soldier arrested in Russia on suspicion of theft, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, has appeared in court in the Russian city of Vladivostok, as his trial got underway on Monday. Black did not admit to charges of threatening to kill a Russian woman, but partially
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping maritime claims, including almost all of the South China Sea, a strategic and resource-rich waterway around which Beijing has drawn a 10-dash-line on official maps to delineate what it says
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press TAIPEI (AP) — China’s coast guard says a Chinese vessel and a Philippine supply ship collided near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The coast guard said a Philippine supply ship on Monday entered waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef in
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares opened mixed Monday in Europe as markets were recovering from losses following recent election upsets across the region. In France, where wins by far-right parties have raised pressure on President Emmanuel Macron, the CAC 40 rose 0.2% to 7,516.49. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher, to
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Elizabeth Wolfe, Hannah Rabinowitz, Ashley R. Williams, Holly Yan and Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — One of three inmates charged in connection with the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has pleaded guilty to falsifying statements to federal agents. Sean McKinnon was sentenced Monday to time served, as
Continue ReadingWFAA, GATEWAY CHURCH, CNN By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Dallas-area megachurch pastor Robert Morris admitted to “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” in the 1980s after a woman accused him of molesting her when she was 12 years old, according to a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WFAA. The woman, Cindy Clemishire, told WFAA the
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have given final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc. The Nature Restoration Plan survived a razor-thin vote by lawmakers last summer but faced opposition from several member states. Relentless farmers’ protests left the bill deadlocked.
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A cargo train has rammed into a passenger train in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, killing at least eight people and injuring several others. Doctors, disaster-response teams and ambulances are at the site of Monday’s accident. It took place in the Darjeeling district, a tourist spot nestled in the Himalayan
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza, Israeli officials said Monday, a move that comes days after a key member of the body bolted from the government over frustration with the Israeli leader’s handling of
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Dallas-area megachurch pastor Robert Morris admitted to “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” in the 1980s after a woman accused him of molesting her when she was 12 years old, according to a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WFAA. The woman, Cindy Clemishire, told WFAA the abuse started on Christmas
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has kept a key lending rate unchanged despite signs of continued weakness in the second-largest economy’s manufacturing and the property sectors. The central bank kept its rate for 1-year medium-term lending facility loans, used as a benchmark for other lending rates, at 2.5%. The government
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have used the early morning hours to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, hoping to escape the noontime summer heat that caused heatstroke and sunburns among thousands wrapping up the Hajj pilgrimage. The final days of the Hajj
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef and Elliott Gotkine, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his war cabinet, an Israeli official told CNN Monday, just over a week after opposition leader Benny Gantz withdrew from the body. Decision-making will now move back to the government’s main security cabinet, the Israeli official said, claiming Netanyahu
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have given final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc. The Nature Restoration Plan survived a razor-thin vote by lawmakers last summer but faced opposition from several member states. Relentless farmers’ protests left the bill deadlocked. It was finally adopted at
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo, CNN Archer’s Post, Kenya (CNN) — Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized. “They call me ‘mzungu maskini,’ or a
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign said Monday it will spend $50 million through the end of June on a new ad campaign that includes efforts to spotlight Republican Donald Trump’s felony conviction. The costly advertising push comes with Election Day still more than four and a half
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The Biden campaign is rolling out a new ad in battleground states framing the election as a choice between a “convicted criminal” and a president “fighting for your family” in its latest effort to seize on Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money trial in
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s four-day visit to Australia this week was set to be focused on repairing long-strained relations between the two countries. But apparent efforts by Chinese officials to stand in front of an Australian reporter during a press briefing have shone a spotlight back
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