By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are strong favorites to win the Michigan primaries on Tuesday, but there are complications on both sides. Progressive activists are urging Democrats to cast their ballots for “uncommitted” to protest Biden’s position on Israel. On the Republican side, the
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PARIS (AP) — Angry farmers are back to Paris on their tractors on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital, in a new protest demanding more government support and simpler regulations. Dozens of tractors drove peacefully into a neighborhood on the capital’s west side on Friday, carrying flags from Rural Coordination,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Cultural icons including Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov and ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov have released videos calling on Russian authorities to return the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his family, a week after his death in an Arctic penal colony. Navalny’s mother said Thursday that she has seen her
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene and Elliott Gotkine, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a plan for Gaza’s future post-Hamas, which includes the “complete demilitarization” of the enclave, closing off the territory’s southern border with Egypt, as well as the overhaul of Gaza’s civil administration and education systems. CNN has obtained a
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for a man who is also under investigation in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann says he won’t respond to unrelated charges of sexual offenses at a trial that opened last week in Germany. The 47-year-old German faces three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children
Continue ReadingBy JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s police say Lee Ho-yang, a prominent K-pop composer and producer better known by his professional name of “Shinsadong Tiger,” has been found dead. The Seoul Metropolitan Police say that 40-year-old Lee was discovered dead at his Seoul studio on Friday. Police gave no
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is in Ukraine to try to reassure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials that Congress will deliver another round of U.S. aid, even as a package that would provide $60 billion is stalled in the U.S. House. Schumer’s surprise trip Friday
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — In a story published Feb. 22, 2024, about online fundraising campaigns for Israeli settlers subject to sanctions, The Associated Press erroneously reported the amount of money raised by a campaign for David Chai Chasdai. It was over $31,000, not $2,500.
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The head of the European Union’s powerful Commission is in Warsaw for talks with Poland’s new prime minister, Donald Tusk, on restoring pro-EU policies that would allow for the bloc to release of billions of euros of funds for the country. Brussels froze pandemic recovery and cohesion funds for Poland amid
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — As some Republicans were agonizing over the party’s disappointing 2022 midterm election performance – and occasionally laying the blame at the feet of former President Donald Trump – New York Rep. Elise Stefanik tripled down. Shortly after Election Day, Stefanik, now the fourth-ranking House Republican and a top GOP
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN Congress is quickly approaching a pair of government funding deadlines, with less than a week to go before a potential partial shutdown and lawmakers at an impasse with no clear plan in place to avoid it. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden met with four top congressional leaders at
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced Friday that it is imposing sanctions on several foreign companies over allegations that they have exported dual-use goods to Russia that could be used in its war against Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc also said that it was targeting scores of Russian officials including “members of the judiciary, local
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government’s decision to revoke her U.K. citizenship, with judges saying that it wasn’t for them to rule on whether it was “harsh” to do so.
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russian Olympic Committee has lost an appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed the ROC’s appeal against the suspension imposed in October. The IOC objected to the ROC incorporating four sports bodies representing regions of eastern Ukraine. CAS says
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Jessie Gretener and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship. Shamima Begum flew to Syria in 2015 with two school friends to join the
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says at least 118 people have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in more than 10 months of conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes. A new report by the agency, released on Friday, says
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Contentious Supreme Court oral arguments this week offered a reminder that while the public focuses on the Donald Trump election cases, the court’s actions this spring will be equally consequential for an array of rules set in Washington governing American life. Supreme Court conservatives are accelerating their moves to overhaul the way
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA LEÓN Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — As firefighters and scientific police began inspecting the interior of two residential towers that were destroyed by fire in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing four people, questions abounded as to how the fire spread so rapidly. Authorities said 14 people were still missing following
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Strong winds tore the roof off the main train station in Goteborg Friday, causing no injuries but knocking out power and stopping all rail traffic in and out of Sweden’s second largest city. The storm blustered along the coasts of southern Scandinavia overnight. The Swedish meteorological agency issued its second highest
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian sculptor Mikhail Reva has transformed the trauma of Russia’s invasion into a profound artistic statement, turning two tons of war debris into sculptures that express the deep suffering of his homeland. Following a Russian strike on his country house, Reva crafted “The Flower of Death” from
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