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9-year-old girl sues German boys choir over gender bias

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2019 | 9:57 AM

BERLIN (AP) — A 9-year-old girl is suing a centuries-old Berlin boys choir, arguing that her bid to join was only rejected because of her gender, in a case that has sparked debate over equal rights versus artistic freedom. The State and...

NY judge delays ruling on letting unvaccinated children go back to school

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2019 | 9:09 AM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge declined to immediately rule on whether to let unvaccinated children go back to school in New York after a hearing Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging a new state law eliminating religious exemptions to vaccines....

16-y-o activist sets sail for New York

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2019 | 12:17 AM

PLYMOUTH, England (AP): Eco-activist Greta Thunberg has set sail from the English coastline for New York as part of her campaign to pressure politicians to put climate change at the top of their agendas. The Malizia II caught the wind mid-afternoon...

Commissioner finds prime minister violated ethics

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2019 | 12:16 AM

TORONTO (AP): Canada’s ethics commissioner says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau improperly pressured the country’s former attorney general to halt the criminal prosecution of a company in a conflict of interest case. Wednesday’s report comes just...

GOP rep to go on trial weeks before 2020 primary

Published:Thursday | August 15, 2019 | 12:14 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP): US Representative Duncan Hunter won’t go on trial until next year on corruption charges that involve the spending of campaign cash on vacations, extramarital affairs and other items, a US judge decided Tuesday. US District Court...

UN probing 35 North Korean cyberattacks in 17 countries

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 10:47 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say they are investigating at least 35 instances in 17 countries of North Koreans using cyberattacks to illegally raise money for weapons of mass destruction programs — and they are calling for...

Energy emergency declared in Texas heat wave

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 9:45 AM

ATLANTA (AP) — The operator of the electric grid that serves most of Texas has declared an energy conservation emergency as temperatures across much of the state approached or exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 38 degrees Celsius. The Energy...

UN urges reluctant EU nations to help stranded migrants

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 9:27 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency urgently appealed to European governments to let two migrant rescue ships disembark more than 500 passengers who remain stranded at sea as countries bicker over who should take responsibility...

FBI informant ordered to wear disguise

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 12:00 AM

HELENA, Montana (AP): A Montana judge has ordered an FBI informant to wear a wig or hat, false eyeglasses, and fake facial hair when testifying against a man who prosecutors say wanted to avenge the death of Muslims killed in shootings at two New...

Concerts cancelled, investigation opened into Placido Domingo

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 12:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP): Two music companies cancelled appearances by Placido Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera said yesterday that it would launch an investigation in response to an Associated Press (AP) story in which numerous women accused the opera...

Counties sue over public benefit immigration rule

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 12:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP): San Francisco and Santa Clara counties filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new rules to deny green cards to migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers, or other forms of public assistance...

3 children die in boat accident off France’s Normandy coast

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2019 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP): The deaths of three children on a speedboat that overturned in the English Channel just off the Normandy coast are under investigation, authorities said yesterday. The children who died were on an outing with their parents, and all...

2 Ebola patients in Congo 'cured' with drugs, say doctors

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 2:09 PM

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Two Ebola patients who were treated with new drugs in the city of Goma in eastern Congo have been declared “cured” and returned to their home. Top doctors fighting Ebola quickly used the case on Tuesday to...

Court says Italy illegally barred child migrants

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 2:19 PM

ROME (AP) — A Spanish aid group says it has asked Italy and Malta to evacuate twin babies and their parents from a rescue ship that has 151 migrants on board and nowhere to disembark them. Aid group Open Arms said Tuesday that one of the 9-...

4 opposition lawmakers stripped of immunity in Venezuela

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 11:32 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Legislators loyal to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday stripped immunity from four opposition lawmakers accused of treason amid a struggle for control of the crisis-stricken nation. The move brings...

US delays tariffs on some Chinese goods, drops others

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 11:21 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is delaying tariffs on Chinese-made cellphones, laptop computers and other items and removing other Chinese imports from its target list altogether in a move that triggered a rally on Wall Street. The...

Flights out of Hong Kong cancelled again amid protests

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 9:16 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — Protesters severely crippled operations at Hong Kong’s international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrators took over the terminals as...

Conservative Alejandro Giammattei wins elections

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 12:13 AM

GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Conservative Alejandro Giammattei has blazed a long, strange path to Guatemala’s presidency, which he won on his fourth try. The 63-year-old spent several months in prison in 2008, when he was director of the country’s prison...

Death toll in landslide climbs to 56

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 12:13 AM

YANGON (AP): The death toll in a landslide that buried more than a dozen village houses in southeastern Myanmar has climbed to 56, an official said Monday. The landslide hit a village in Paung township on Friday. Zaw Zaw Htoo, a member of...

Angry wasps help police nab fleeing fugitive

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 12:13 AM

BERLIN (AP): A fugitive in Germany has been nabbed thanks to the help of angry wasps. Oldenburg police said the unusual sting operation took place Monday after officers tried to arrest a 32-year-old man to serve an outstanding 11-month custodial...

Five nuclear engineers buried after rocket explosion

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2019 | 12:13 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Thousands of Russians on Monday attended the funerals of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by an explosion as they tested a new rocket engine, a tragedy that fuelled radiation fears and raised new questions about a secretive...

AG says ‘irregularities’ found at jail where Epstein died

Published:Monday | August 12, 2019 | 2:05 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Monday that there were “serious irregularities” at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life as he awaited trial on charges he sexually abused underage girls. The...

Portugal rations gas as tanker drivers strike over pay

Published:Monday | August 12, 2019 | 10:34 AM

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal began rationing gas Monday as a precaution after 2,000 truck drivers began an open-ended strike over pay, a move that comes at the height of the crucial summer tourist season and during the summer harvest. The...

UK gov't boosts prisons, police powers in crime clampdown

Published:Monday | August 12, 2019 | 10:20 AM

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is promising more prisons and stronger police powers in an effort to fight violent crime. The government announced plans Sunday to create 10,000 more prison places to ease overcrowding and...

Hope fades for man, girl missing in Switzerland flash flood

Published:Monday | August 12, 2019 | 9:51 AM

GENEVA (AP) — Authorities in Switzerland are searching for a man and a girl missing since Sunday after their car was swept away by a flash flood caused by heavy rain in the Swiss Alps. Police in the southern canton (state) of Valais said...

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