Month: May 2024

TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president has hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees for private meetings. The trip on Tuesday comes after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to

By ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo’s president has signed a new constitution eliminating presidential elections, a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family’s six-decade rule. Civil society groups in the West African nation have called for protests. Parliament will now choose the president. The new constitution also

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU countries have approved a plan worth 6 billion euros ($6.45 billion) to support Western Balkan states aimed at accelerating reforms and economic growth in the region, as they seek future membership in the bloc. The Council of the European Union on Tuesday said the plan, which covers the period from 2024

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top prosecutor’s office says that authorities are searching the European Parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels. The search was underway on Tuesday. Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party’s top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been under scrutiny after

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world.” Tuesday’s speech came as the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. Biden’s remarks

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has started commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu battle in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops. Thousands of people and veterans cheered and waved Vietnamese flags on Tuesday as a military parade marched by under a tropical shower. A 94-year-old

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man had been engaged in a deradicalization program since he detonated a homemade explosive device in a school toilet block two years ago. The boy wounded a man with a kitchen

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An American English-language tutor has been arrested in Moscow on hooliganism charges for reportedly breaking into a children’s library while intoxicated and has been sentenced to 10 days in jail. State news agency RIA-Novosti says William Nycum was found in the library on Friday after breaking a window to gain entry.

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video-game maker Nintendo’s announcement about a successor to its Switch home console is coming sometime before March 2025. In reporting its results on Tuesday, Nintendo gave no details, including about whether it would launch that successor product during this fiscal year, or just announce it.

LONDON (AP) — British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system. The defense ministry says Defense Secretary Grant Shapps will make a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday “setting out the