Month: June 2023

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Divisive social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women, prosecutors in Romania said Tuesday. Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said prosecutors filed the charges against the brothers, who are both British-U.S. dual citizens, along with

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nine Egyptian men accused of being members of a migrant smuggling ring involved in one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean are appearing in court in southern Greece for questioning over their alleged role in the disaster. The nine appearing Tuesday in court in the southern city of Kalamata

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret chugged toward the eastern Caribbean on Tuesday as forecasters warned it could strengthen into a hurricane before approaching a region rushing to prepare itself for an unusually early storm. Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving across the Atlantic Ocean

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Nissan and about a dozen individuals in Beirut over his imprisonment in Japan and what he says is misinformation spread against him, Lebanese officials said Tuesday. According to the officials, Ghosn’s lawsuit accuses Nissan and the

PARIS (AP) — The French national financial prosecutor’s office says investigators are searching the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers in a probe into suspected corruption. The Paris organizing committee says a search is under way at their headquarters in the suburb of Saint-Denis and that the committee is cooperating with the investigators. The prosecutor’s office

By EDNA TARIGAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is moving ahead with plans for joint naval exercises in September, the first held by countries in the bloc on their own, at a time when several are responding more strongly to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The governor of Darfur called for an international investigation into alleged atrocities against residents of the region that witnessed some of the worst battles in Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Mini Arko Minawi urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to allow the International Criminal Court to probe “crimes

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says it has recorded a new high in crimes by political extremists in 2022, with the far right posing the biggest security threat to the country. Figures published by the BfV agency on Tuesday show that there were almost 2,000 more instances of cases linked to extremists of

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid pressure Australia into launching its own review. On Tuesday, Sen. Jacqui Lambie invited the Hague-based court because she says military commanders have

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly declined Tuesday after a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Secretary of State Antony Blinken yielded no signs of progress from either side on Taiwan, human rights, technology and other issues of contention. France’s CAC 40 inched down less than 0.1% to

By BEN FINLEY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean raced against time early Tuesday to find a missing submersible carrying five people on a mission to document the wreckage of the Titanic. The carbon-fiber submersible named the Titan, part of a mission by OceanGate Expeditions, carried a

BERLIN (AP) — Trade, climate change and the war in Ukraine are on the agenda Tuesday as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who is on his first foreign trip since taking office. The meeting in Berlin is the seventh time Germany and China have held high-level government consultations and comes a