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Fire kills 51 during prison riot

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2022 | 12:09 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP): A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported yesterday. The director of the national prison system, Tito Castellanos, told Radio Caracol that...

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2022 | 3:30 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage...

Biden suspends rules limiting immigrant arrest, deportation

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2022 | 9:55 AM

BOSTON (AP) — The Biden administration, reacting to a federal court ruling in Texas, has suspended an order that had focused resources for the arrest and deportation of immigrants on those who are considered a threat to public safety and...

Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2022 | 9:48 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for...

Supreme Court’s abortion ruling sets off new court fights

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2022 | 12:10 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP): The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country on Monday as one side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect and the other tried to stop, or at least delay, such measures...

Russian missile strike hits crowded shopping mall

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2022 | 12:05 AM

SLOVIANSK (AP): Scores of civilians were feared killed or wounded in a Russian missile strike on Monday of a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a...

Tragic teen party mystery

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2022 | 12:05 AM

CAPE TOWN (AP): South African authorities were seeking answers on Monday, a day after 21 underage teenagers partying after end-of-school exams died in a mysterious incident at a nightclub. The bodies of many of the victims, the youngest a 13-year-...

US officials back in Venezuela in a bid to rebuild ties

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 10:48 PM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, forcing the...

46 dead, 16 hospitalised after trailer of migrants found

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 9:52 PM

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals after a tractor-trailer rig containing suspected migrants was found today on a remote back road in southwest San Antonio, officials said. A city worker...

Supreme Court's abortion ruling sets off new court fights

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 8:24 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Judges temporarily blocked abortion bans today in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately as the battle over whether women...

Judge says NYC can’t let noncitizens vote in city elections

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 2:51 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City can't let noncitizens vote for mayor and other city officials, a judge ruled Monday, siding with Republicans who challenged the measure as unconstitutional. In January, New York became the first...

Officials: Russian missile strike hits crowded shopping mall

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 1:47 PM

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of civilians were feared killed or wounded in a Russian missile strike Monday on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine's central city of Kremenchuk, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr...

Nigeria’s chief justice resigns amid corruption allegations

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 10:31 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's highest judicial officer has resigned, an aide said Monday, a week after the country's Supreme Court justices accused the top-ranking judge of corruption. Justice Tanko Muhammad denies the allegations....

UK presses on with Brexit rules rewrite, EU calls it illegal

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 9:04 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain is ramping up a feud with the European Union by pressing on with a plan to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal it signed with the bloc. Legislation that rewrites trade rules for Northern Ireland is scheduled to...

Survivors recount deadliest attack since coup

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 12:06 AM

BAMAKO (AP): Moussa Tolofidie didn’t think twice when nearly 100 jihadis on motorbikes gathered in his village in central Mali last week. A peace agreement signed last year between some armed groups and the community in the Bankass area had...

Destruction everywhere, help scarce after quake

Published:Monday | June 27, 2022 | 12:06 AM

GAYAN (AP): When the ground heaved from last week’s earthquake in Afghanistan, Nahim Gul’s stone-and-mud house collapsed on top of him. He clawed through the rubble in the predawn darkness, choking on dust as he searched for his father and two...

Nigerians blame fuel shortage on Ukraine war, fixed prices

Published:Friday | June 24, 2022 | 2:15 PM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is grappling with widespread fuel shortages that are forcing motorists to spend hours in lines to buy gas and causing prices to surge for transportation and basic commodities. Russia's war in Ukraine has...

UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ from global food shortage

Published:Friday | June 24, 2022 | 11:37 AM

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine has...

Aftershock in Afghanistan as quake toll rises to 1,150 dead

Published:Friday | June 24, 2022 | 11:16 AM

GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — An aftershock took more lives Friday and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week. Among...

US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, states can ban abortion

Published:Friday | June 24, 2022 | 9:36 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome...

Commonwealth heads call for climate action at Rwanda meeting

Published:Friday | June 24, 2022 | 12:11 AM

KIGALI (AP): Leaders of Commonwealth nations are calling for increased climate action at a meeting in Rwanda this week, ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt later this year. Climate...

EU leaders set to grant Ukraine candidate status

Published:Friday | June 24, 2022 | 12:11 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): European Union (EU) leaders on Thursday are set to make Ukraine a candidate for joining the 27-nation bloc, a first step in a long and unpredictable journey toward full membership that could take many years to navigate. Making...

Brazilian judge probed for blocking abortion for raped child

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2022 | 4:42 PM

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's judicial watchdog agency says it is investigating a judge who stopped an 11-year-old rape victim from getting an abortion — a procedure that advocates insist is allowed in the South American nation...

WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2022 | 3:26 PM

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiralling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency. But some experts say the WHO's decision to act only...

US Supreme Court expands gun rights, striking New York limits

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2022 | 10:48 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major expansion of gun rights, the United States Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public. The justices' 6-3 decision follows a series of recent mass shootings and is...

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