By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Catholic church leader says the Vatican is considering the findings of a church investigation into “very serious and deeply distressing” child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop. Christopher Saunders resigned as bishop of Broome in 2021 after police announced they had dropped a
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is claiming the country’s former powerful military and spy chiefs orchestrated his ouster in 2017, when he was forced to step down after being convicted of corruption. Sharif spoke on Monday to leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League party via a
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A bus coach traveling through Austria has driven off the road and crashed on its side, killing a woman and injuring 20 other passengers. Austrian broadcaster ORF reported the accident took place Tuesday near the village of Micheldorf in Carinthia state in central Austria. The coach was on its way from Berlin
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Santa Clara, Cuba (CNN) — Durante meses, cientos de cubanos han abandonado silenciosamente la isla para luchar por Rusia en su guerra en Ucrania, persiguiendo promesas de dinero y ciudadanía rusa de reclutadores en línea en la sombra, dijeron miembros de familias cubanas a CNN. En gran parte de Cuba, la economía
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By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — American golfer Gary Woodland has undergone surgery to remove a tumor on his brain, an update posted to his social media accounts said. The former US Open champion underwent a “long” operation on Monday that removed the majority of the lesion, a diagnosis he revealed in a post on
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has begun its first joint naval exercise at a time when several member countries are responding more strongly to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the area. The non-combat exercise includes joint maritime patrol operations, search and rescue drills, and humanitarian and
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden made his case before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the world must remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression, warning that no nation can be secure if “we allow Ukraine to be carved up” as he
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By Betsy Klein, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN New York (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday made a forceful call for the world to stand up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling for leaders to stand firm in their support of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his nation as the war heads toward its
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — A former member of Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is going on trial in Switzerland over the enforced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s. The case is being seen as a landmark of international justice. Yuri Harauski, a former member of a military unit known as SOBR, exited
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TODAY: Tuesday offers plenty of dry time, especially in the morning. However, some isolated showers will arrive in the west, generally after the noon hour. These will spread east through the evening, but folks in Columbia, Jefferson City, and eastward communities shouldn’t see any activity until around the dinner hour or later. Any showers will
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Some of Spain’s World Cup-winning players started reporting to training camp on Tuesday despite not wanting to be called up for the national team while fighting for changes in the soccer federation. Local media showed some of the players arriving at the hotel where the team
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine is insisting that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year. Kyiv wants judges at the International Court of Justice to order Russia to halt its
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of London police officers are facing dismissal as the department steps up efforts to get rid of police officers accused of corruption and other misconduct. A series of scandals eroded public trust and a scathing report found it was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic. The Metropolitan
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil. The clash centers around the Sikh independence, or Khalistan, movement and the armed insurgency that shook
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CNN By Nectar Gan and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas. German Foreign Minister
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — ¿El Sr. Monopoly usa monóculo? ¿Hay una raya negra en la cola de Pikachu? ¿Y la fruta en el logotipo de Fruit of the Loom surge de una cornucopia? Si respondiste afirmativamente a alguna de estas preguntas, lo siento, estás equivocado. Pero es posible que también estés experimentando el llamado efecto
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Sébastien Roblin (CNN) — Having repeatedly snatched victories from the jaws of defeat in 2022, Ukraine’s forces made far slower progress over the summer in a counteroffensive to liberate southern Ukraine from Russia’s grip. By August, officials in Washington had begun leaking scathing complaints about Ukrainian battlefield performance, while Ukraine’s supporters blamed the West’s long delays in delivering heavy equipment for having bought Russia time to fortify
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese journalist active in the #MeToo movement will go on trial this week, along with a labor rights activist who was also detained with her in 2021. One of their supporters said a pretrial hearing was held on Tuesday and a trial was set for Friday.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — YouTube said Tuesday that Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned-influencer. The BBC removed some of Brand’s material from its streaming archive, joining a growing list of organizations distancing themselves from
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he trusts Russia as much he trusts the West. Explaining his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Erdogan said he had failed to get him to resume the Black Sea grain deal the Kremlin withdrew from in July but had
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