By EMMANUEL IGUNZA AND BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president is defending the high taxes the government recently imposed, calling them a “necessary sacrifice “in helping the country deal with ballooning foreign debt which now stands at $70 billion. President William Ruto spoke at celebrations marking 60 years since Kenya’s independence
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British officials say an asylum-seeker on board a barge housing migrants off the south coast of England has died and a police investigation has been launched into the incident. Police said officers received “a report of a sudden death of a resident” on the barge, called the
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press NARANJA, Fla. (AP) — Martin Monjaraz takes special pride in helping to organize the Guadalupe festival on the grounds of St. Ann Mission, where he first embraced the Catholic faith as a teen after moving from Mexico to work in the surrounding farmland decades ago. “Here there’s a way to
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The loss of contact with Alexei Navalny at the prison colony where the opposition leader was being held likely signals a Kremlin effort to tighten his isolation while President Vladimir Putin runs for reelection over the next three months, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Tuesday. Worries about Navalny spread Monday after officials at the
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis are asking a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed by Disney after the Florida governor took over Walt Disney World’s governing district in retaliation for the company opposing a state law that banned classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis are asking a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed by Disney after the Florida governor took over Walt Disney World’s governing district in retaliation for the company opposing a state law that banned classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters have rallied in the capital of the European Union for better public services, salaries and living conditions. The protest Tuesday in downtown Brussels takes place during EU negotiations over the new Stability and Growth Pact, which aims to limit debt and deficits for member
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN KABUMBA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — The White House says Congo’s security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour cease-fire to de-escalate tensions in the country’s east near the border with Rwanda. It comes days before Congo’s presidential election. But some of the region’s many rebel groups
Continue ReadingCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard President Claudine Gay awaited word Tuesday on her fate as leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism. Only months into her leadership, Gay came under intense scrutiny following the hearing in which she and two of her peers struggled
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — All five people inside a construction site elevator that crashed to the ground in Stockholm have died, a Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday. Authorities had previously only reported that the occupants were seriously injured when the elevator plummeted 20 meters (66 feet) in Sundbyberg, a Stockholm suburb, on Monday. It is still
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after repeated attempts to reach a deal with the rival hotel chain were rebuffed. Choice Hotels said Tuesday that its exchange offer to shareholders of Wyndham, which runs Days Inn, La Quinta, Ramada and a host
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Interpol and the World Customs Organization say they seized 53 primates, four big cats and more than 1,300 birds in their sweeping annual crackdown on wildlife and timber trafficking. They also confiscated some 300 kilograms of ivory, thousands of turtle eggs, and rhino horns, leopard skins, and lion teeth and paws and
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Jordanian troops have clashed with dozens of drug smugglers along the country’s northern border with Syria, leaving several dead including one soldier while another was wounded. The Jordanian Armed Forces said Tuesday the smugglers were trying to bring into Jordan “large amounts of drugs” while taking advantage of fog and low visibility.
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after attempts to reach a deal with the hotel chain were rebuffed. Choice Hotels said Tuesday that its exchange offer remains the same as its last bid, which was $49.50 in cash and 0.324 shares of
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament is remembering a young woman who died in Iranian police custody during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were officially awarded the EU’s top human rights prize. Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini was 22 when she died last year, three days after she was arrested by
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Floods, fires, historic storms — severe weather events are on the rise. If your home was hit by high water or a fire emergency, would your important papers be safe? Items like insurance information, birth and marriage certificates, passports, Social Security cards and estate planning paperwork should all be protected
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s culture minister has announced that Tricia Tuttle, a former director of the London Film Festival, will become the new director of the Berlin International Film Festival next year. Tuttle, who is American, will take over in April from the outgoing leadership duo of executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy, Darya Tarasova and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — The trial of Alexey Navalny was postponed on Tuesday, one day after his team said it had lost contact with the jailed Russian opposition leader, who was believed to be imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow. Concern was sparked
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces carried out strikes across Gaza overnight and into Tuesday as they pressed ahead with an offensive that officials say could go on for weeks or months, even as global calls for a cease-fire left both Israel and its
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN (CNN) — Four women who attended the US Coast Guard Academy, including a current cadet, are expected to appear at a congressional hearing Tuesday and testify that the agency’s leaders failed to protect them from sexual harassment and assault. The hearing before the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security’s
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