By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The mining of minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies in Congo has led to human rights abuses, including forced evictions and physical assault. That’s according to a report Tuesday from Amnesty International and another rights group. Congo is by the world’s largest
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Tuesday as Wall Street waits for highly anticipated reports later this week about inflation and the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 50 points, or 0.1%, at 34,714, as of
Continue ReadingYEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Authorities in an isolated ethnic Armenian region of Azerbaijan have allowed entry of a humanitarian aid shipment in a step toward easing a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan that had blocked transport to the region since late last year. The region, Nagorno-Karabakh, has suffered severe food shortages since Azerbaijan blocked the
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has called on the European Union to extend the embargo on imports of Ukrainian grain beyond Friday deadline to protect Polish farmers. EU members Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia have imposed an embargo on four Ukrainian grains from April until Sept. 15 to prevent a glut in their
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Tinzert, Atlas Mountains, Morocco (CNN) — Rajaa Acherhri was known as the village math genius. At six years old, she loved solving problems way above her grade level. He sister Sanaa had big dreams too. She wanted to become a doctor, her mother Fatema told CNN. After dinner on Friday
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press PGA TOUR FORTINET CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Napa, California. Course: Silverado Resort and Spa (North). Yardage: 7,213. Par: 72. Prize money: $8.4 million. Winner’s share: $1.512 million. Television: Thursday-Sunday, 6-9 p.m. (Golf Channel). Defending champion: Max Homa. FedEx Cup champion: Viktor Hovland. Last tournament: Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship. Notes: This starts
Continue ReadingSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police have arrested five people who are suspected of participating in a July 1995 genocide in Srebrenica. That’s a town where Bosnian Serb troops killed over 8,000 men and boys during the Balkan country’s interethnic war. Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency said officers also conducted searches during their operation
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest tech antitrust trial in 25 years begins as the U.S. government targets Google’s search dominance.
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen (CNN) — A liberal group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota, the second major lawsuit in two weeks that hopes to invoke the 14th Amendment’s arcane “insurrectionist ban.” The cases are seen as legal long shots. Trump denies wrongdoing and has
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a rhinoceros at a zoo in Austria has attacked a married couple working as zookeepers, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man. The attack happened early Tuesday at the Hellbrunn Zoo in the western Austrian city of Salzburg. The zoo director says the 33-year-old
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia is growing worried over the increasing number of migrants attempting to cross over into the Baltic nation through the border with Belarus and has called up the military to assist border guards. Latvia’s State Border Guard says 103 people were stopped in the 24 hours to
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Several Japanese companies have decided to stop using stars who are represented by Johnny & Associates, an entertainment company at the center of a sexual assault scandal. Beverage maker Asahi Group Holdings will no longer air its ads featuring Junichi Okada, Toma Ikuta and Sho Sakurai. Japan
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press Residents of a suburban Philadelphia community locked themselves in their houses and at least one school district canceled classes as authorities indicated they were closing in on an escaped murderer who has evaded capture in the region for nearly two weeks. Danelo Souza Cavalcante entered a garage
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice charged Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. “This case is about the future of the
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice charged Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. “This case is about the future of the
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Emergency workers uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could spiral with 10,000 people reported still missing after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city. The startling death
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police in Serbia say they rounded up hundreds of migrants and found weapons during a raid along the country’s border with Hungary. Thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia travel along the land route that leads west from Turkey and through the Balkans. Serbia
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are rejecting Pakistani government accusations they’re to blame for the closure of a key border crossing. Pakistan closed the vital commercial artery of Torkham last week after guards from the two sides exchanged fire. A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Islamabad accused the Taliban of building unlawful structures and indiscriminate
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Krystina Shveda, Henrik Pettersson, Lou Robinson, Amy O’Kruk and Clint Alwahab, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 3,000 people are dead, towns and villages are decimated and rescuers are trawling for survivors after a massive earthquake ripped through Morocco. The quake is the worst the country has suffered in decades and the full scale
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama families with transgender children asked an appellate court Monday to review a decision that will let the state enforce a ban on treating minors with gender-affirming hormones and puberty blockers. The families asked the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a three-judge
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