Month: September 2021

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Hugh Evans started his fight against extreme poverty by mobilizing his friends when he was growing up in Australia. On Saturday, Evans will try to mobilize the world to tackle poverty and COVID-19 with Global Citizen Live, a live, 24-hour concert featuring The Weekend, BTS, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Lopez,

By RAMI MUSA Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libyan lawmakers have passed a vote of no confidence in the country’s transitional government, a move that will throw long-waited elections late this year into further uncertainty. The vote Tuesday took place in the parliament’s headquarters in the eastern city of Tobruk, said Abdullah Ablaihig, a

POTEAU, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to more than a dozen years behind bars after he pleaded no contest in a case in which he was accused of illegally performing a surgery at a cabin in the woods. The Oklahoman reports that 54-year-old Bob Lee Allen had been set to go

PARIS (AP) — A leading international economic watchdog is urging developed countries to put more effort into providing low-income countries with coronavirus vaccines in order to ensure that the global recovery from the pandemic is more even. In its latest assessment of the state of the global economy, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has acknowledged his increasingly vocal right-wing critics. He says their “nasty comments” were the work of the devil and added that “some wanted me dead” after his recent intestinal surgery. Francis made the comments during a Sept. 12 private meeting with Slovakian Jesuits soon after

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence officer suffered symptoms linked to a series of directed-energy attacks known as “Havana syndrome” while traveling with Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns in India earlier this month. According to a scientist briefed on the case, experts are in the process of verifying the

By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press MILAN (AP) — PSA Peugeot’s takeover of Fiat Chrysler to form the world’s fourth-largest carmaker has had its first executive casualty, with former Fiat Chrysler CEO Mike Manley stepping down as his role of head of the Americas. Stellantis announced Tuesday that Manley, 57, was leaving to

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a distraught man jumped off the roof of a New York apartment building, landed on another man 12 stories below and killed both of them. Police say a 25-year-old man jumped from an apartment building in Yonkers on Monday evening. They say he landed on the roof of a

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, COLLEEN LONG and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents tied to images showing aggressive tactics on Haitian immigrants have been placed on administrative duties pending an investigation. The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, says in a tweet that further action will come depending