By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have reached a preliminary agreement for the release of $1.1 billion from a $3 billion bailout following dayslong talks in Islamabad. Officials said Pakistan will receive the final tranche from the bailout that was approved by the IMF in July to
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By Maria Sole Campinoti and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Months after former Marvel actor Jonathan Majors was found guilty of assault of his ex-girlfriend in a 2023 incident, the former girlfriend has sued him over accusations that he physically and verbally abused her during their nearly two-year relationship. The suit, filed by Grace Jabbari on
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A South Korean tanker has capsized off an island in southwestern Japan. Authorities said the capsizing has killed eight people on board. One crew member survived, and the fate of two others was unknown. The Japan Coast Guard said it received a distress call from the chemical
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A dizzying volley of courtroom maneuvers over a Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally sowed confusion at the nation’s border with Mexico on Wednesday as sheriffs, police chiefs and migrants waited for
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY Associated Press Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the biblical story of how a plot to exterminate Jews in Persia was thwarted, and thus is embraced as an affirmation of
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday reiterated the United States’ “ironclad commitment” to defend the Philippines as rising tensions with China in the South China Sea raise fears of a broader regional conflict. Stability in the region is seen as being increasingly threatened by clashes between Chinese coast guard
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By Diksha Madhok, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into one of the most important sources of clean energy anywhere
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Ha pasado más de una semana desde que Missy y John Tennant hablaron con los dos chicos adolescentes en Haití que adoptaron recientemente. Los chicos, de 13 y 15 años, están atrapados en el país caribeño, escondidos con otros niños dentro de un orfanato rodeado de violencia de pandillas, dijo
Continue ReadingBy BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may have little chance of winning in Sunday’s election, but activists say her presence is helping to advance a decadeslong campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. Business leader Anta Babacar Ngom is a voice for
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two former Mississippi deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and torturing two Black men. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — For a few fleeting hours Tuesday, Texas was able to enforce a hardline immigration law blasted by critics as an affront to human rights – thanks to a huge assist from the conservative majority on the US Supreme Court. The intervention by the nation’s top bench triggered a
Continue ReadingBy JEFF MARTIN Associated Press JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago has been put to death in the state’s first execution in more than four years. Authorities say 59-year-old Willie James Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday evening following an injection of the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican attorneys general in two dozen states are pushing back against a proposed Biden administration rule that seeks to expand diversity in apprenticeship programs. The proposed rule change would set new standards for registered apprenticeships that provide paid on-the-job training and education for skilled
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL and STEPHEN SMITH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Olin Pickens sat in his wheelchair facing a life-sized image of himself on a screen, asking it questions about being taken prisoner by German soldiers during World War II. After a pause, his video-recorded twin recalled being given “sauerkraut soup” by his captors
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai sovereign wealth fund that’s the single-largest shareholder in the Nasdaq stock index plans to sell a third of its shares in the exchange. It’s a deal potentially worth some $1.6 billion that saw the value of the firm fall in aftermarket trading
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un piloto de Delta Airlines fue sentenciado a 10 meses de prisión después de declararse culpable de presentarse a trabajar en el aeropuerto escocés de Edimburgo mientras excedía el límite prescrito de alcohol en sangre, según registros del poder judicial de Escocia. Lawrence Barbiers Russell Jr, de 63 años, se declaró
Continue ReadingWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand said Wednesday it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those who sell such products to minors. The move comes less than a month after the government repealed a unique law enacted by the previous left-leaning government to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing
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CNN By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The court’s three liberals dissented. Legal challenges to the law are
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds has pleaded guilty to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market. Travis John Branson of Cusick, Washington, on
Continue ReadingBy JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision by England’s public health service to restrict puberty blockers for transgender youths as support for their own related proposals. They weren’t the first to turn to Europe for policy and research to support their call for such restrictions.
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