By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian journalist has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to his work covering protests. It’s the latest move in a sweeping government crackdown on dissent. The Minsk City Court convicted photojournalist Alyaksandr Zyankou on charges of “participation in an extremist group,”
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party says it has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years. After a late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the party’s executive has backed proposals to return to the government.
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — About two weeks after his oldest son’s funeral, South Carolina state house Rep. Brandon Guffey says he received a private Instagram message with a laughing emoji. Gavin Guffey, 17, had fatally shot himself in a bathroom in July 2022, and the grieving father was searching for clues on what
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Residents have been evacuated from small coastal towns near Cape Town in South Africa as wildfires swept down off surrounding mountains and burned out of control. Authorities on Tuesday ordered a full evacuation of Pringle Bay, an affluent coastal village popular with holidaymakers, about
Continue ReadingBy MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The manager of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is pledging to push major oil and gas companies to speed up preparations for the “inescapable” transition away from fossil fuels. Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global on Tuesday reported the largest annual return in its history, a
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their record heights Tuesday following a mixed set of profit reports. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 8 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 11:15 a.m. Eastern time, and
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Italian regulators say they informed OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority said Monday that it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation. The
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner has returned to Italy amid great fanfare with RAI state TV broadcasting his arrival at the airport in Rome. Sinner was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with his orange racket bag strapped onto his shoulders and he also held a green bag with gold-colored straps that appeared
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The first United Arab Emirates ambassador to Damascus in nearly 13 years has taken up his post on Tuesday as Syria is reintegrating into mainstream regional acceptance. Syrian state media said the country’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad received Ambassador Hassan Ahmad al-Shihi’s credentials. The UAE embassy
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem
Continue ReadingBy Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — The main pro-union party in Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said Tuesday it had reached a deal with the UK government that would end its near two-year government boycott and mark a return to power-sharing in the province. Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the pro-UK DUP, made the announcement at a press conference in the early hours
Continue ReadingCNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A former conservative federal appellate judge is urging the Supreme Court to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, arguing the ex-president’s effort to cling to power after his 2020 election loss was “broader” than South Carolina’s secession from the US that triggered the Civil War. “Mr. Trump tried to prevent
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is on a two-day state visit in Stockholm during which he will meet Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, as well as the Scandinavian country’s monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf. He was welcomed on Tuesday with pomp and ceremony at the royal palace. Macron is set to discuss the
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Rockets fired by separatist insurgents have killed a police officer and wounded a dozen other people in southwestern Pakistan, in apparent retaliation for strikes by Pakistan on what it said were insurgent hideouts in Iran earlier in January. The government said Tuesday that six insurgents were
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Rockets fired by separatist insurgents have killed a police officer and wounded a dozen other people in southwestern Pakistan, in apparent retaliation for strikes by Pakistan on what it said were insurgent hideouts in Iran earlier in January. The government said Tuesday that six insurgents were
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Award-winning musician Branford Marsalis is taking on a new job in his hometown of New Orleans. Marsalis was to be named Tuesday as the new artistic director for the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, named for his late father. Ellis Marsalis was the patriarch of a family of accomplished New Orleans
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are ready to take a key vote Tuesday toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they call his “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue. The Homeland Security Committee is
Continue ReadingCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse an opposition protest in the island nation facing its worst economic crisis while gearing up for a national election later this year. Protesters from the main opposition United People’s Power party gathered Tuesday in the capital and accused President
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are ready to take a key vote Tuesday toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they call his “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue. The Homeland Security Committee is
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