ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey’s main opposition party for alleged links to a banned Kurdish militant group. Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, was detained on Wednesday by anti-terrorist police over his alleged connection to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Attackers have set fire to the headquarters of a Bangladesh party that supported the country’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jatiya Party offices on Thursday night in Bangladesh’s capital. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the attack.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI (AP) — Western envoys in Kenya have raised concerns over reports of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances and urged for swift investigations as the country takes up its seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council. In a joint statement on Thursday, the nine ambassadors and high commissioners said they “will support
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a 2023 traffic stop. The judge has ruled that the trooper’s actions did not violate the law. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel granted Trooper Ryan Londregan’s motion to dismiss
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Quentin Tarantino’s handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction” is the stuff of moviemaking legend. And now it’s going to be preserved by the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. The script is one of many new acquisitions to the vast academy collection, the largest film-related collection in the world, the organization announced Thursday. Other
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Prosecutors in Finland have filed charges over alleged war crimes in 2014 by a combatant who fought against Ukrainian forces in a Russian-backed separatist region of Ukraine.The National Prosecution Authority did not identify the suspect while announcing the five charges Thursday in a statement, but Finnish media outlets as Russian
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge has charged the country’s detained former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest warrant. The warrant issued for Riad Salameh on Thursday is the second in less than two months. Salameh was charged by the judge over an apartment that was rented in France
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first and only female House speaker, has been eulogized at the Ohio Statehouse for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit. Davidson died Friday at 97. Her memorial service Thursday attracted one current and three former governors, sitting congressional
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A Paris commercial court has lifted a ban that had prevented Israeli defense companies from exhibiting weapons used by its military in the Mideast conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon at the upcoming Euronaval trade show. The decision, made on Wednesday night, came just days before the international naval defense exhibition opens in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DENVER (AP) — A national campaign is backing ballot measures in six states to end partisan primaries. The current system gives the most active members of both major parties an outsize role in picking political leaders. The $70 million effort to replace traditional primaries with either nonpartisan ones or ranked choice voting is
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — An appeals court in Slovakia has upheld a lower court ruling that found former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and given him a suspended sentence. But the regional court in the eastern city of Presov has lowered the original suspended sentence from two years to one, dismissed a fine
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Please disregard ENT–TV-SNL, published on Nov. 10, 2024, and datelined in NEW YORK. It duplicates a previously published story that is now out of date.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan economist known for his work defending human rights has been detained after criticizing the government in remarks posted on social media during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the North African kingdom. Morocco’s state news agency says prosecutors apprehended Fouad Abdelmoumni in Casablanca on Wednesday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Donald Trump is planning to cast his vote on Election Day despite having previously said he was going to vote early. In a radio interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that aired last week, Trump had said that he intended to vote early — something Kilmeade
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four voters and a Hispanic civil rights group sued Iowa’s top election official, alleging he infringed upon their rights when he directed election workers to challenge some voters’ ballots in an attempt to keep ineligible noncitizens from illegally voting. The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico. Five Mexican citizens and two companies linked to La Linea, a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking organization that smuggles fentanyl and other synthetic
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has conceded that wages may rise by less than previously thought as a direct result of her budget decision to increase a tax that businesses pay for their employees. On Wednesday, Reeves raised taxes by around 40 billion pounds ($52 billion) to plug a hole
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A court in Kenya has cleared the way for a new deputy president to take office despite a continuing court case challenging the impeachment of the previous deputy president. The three-judge High Court in Nairobi set aside another court’s order to suspend the swearing-in of nominee Kithure Kindiki, arguing
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search engine to the digital maps service that the internet company launched nearly 20
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