Month: August 2022

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was saluted Wednesday as a rare leader who changed the world and for a time brought hope for peace among the superpowers. But

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s emergency services says one person has died after a three-story building under construction in northwestern Nigeria collapsed. Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said. the victim died at the hospital where six others pulled from the rubble were treated and released. Nura Abdullahi, head of Kano’s

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The return of dragons has been a hit. Now it’s time for the return of the elves and dwarves. Amazon Studios is launching “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” an ambitious, years-in-the-making and very expensive salvo that will go head-to-head with another

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Behind a closed chapel office door inside a federal women’s prison in California, a chaplain forced inmates seeking his spiritual guidance to have sex with him — exploiting their faith and their powerlessness behind bars for his own gratification, prosecutors said. James Theodore Highhouse, who pleaded

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Catherine Deneuve is not that fond of reminiscing, even as she prepares to collect a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice International Film Festival. She tells reporters “we don’t have time to look backwards … This is our present and we have to continue to go forward.” At 78,

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street was pointing toward small gains before the opening bell on Wednesday as markets try to break a three-day selloff spurred by comments last week from Federal Reserve officials suggesting more interest rate increases were likely. Futures for the benchmark S&P 500 gained 0.4% and futures for the Dow industrials

GENEVA (AP) — Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations say Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan government and parliament by stripping them of their duties prior to any conviction following the illegal independence vote in the region five years ago. The Human Rights Committee, a group of 18

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to challenge a World Bank tribunal’s order to pay $216.5 million plus interest to Texas-based Lone Star Funds in their dispute over the private equity firm’s sale of Korea Exchange Bank. Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon called the ruling unacceptable because there was no fault in the way

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Behind a closed chapel office door inside a federal women’s prison in California, a chaplain forced inmates seeking his spiritual guidance to have sex with him — exploiting their faith and their powerlessness behind bars for his own gratification, prosecutors said. James Theodore Highhouse, who pleaded

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have raided the office of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Frankfurt as part of a broader tax evasion investigation targeting numerous banks in Germany and beyond. Cologne prosecutors said Wednesday that dozens of investigators began searching the offices Tuesday of a Frankfurt-based financial institution and several auditing and tax firms.