By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district attorney told CNN on Friday. Francisco Oropesa, 38, was charged in May for the killings in the town
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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Legal officials in Myanmar say its Supreme Court has scheduled hearings for this month to consider appeals from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against conviction in cases that saw her receive a total of 33 years in prison, legal officials said Saturday. The cases against her
Continue Reading By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they go about their days. And those charges are enough
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has chosen a bishop from his Argentine homeland for one of the Vatican’s most powerful positions — head of the watchdog office that ensures doctrinal orthodoxy. Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernández, now serving as archbishop of La Plata, Argentina, is tapped to
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This Morning: Scattered showers and storms move through in the early morning, mostly clearing by noon. This dry time will allow temperatures to still reach near 90 degrees today, big relief from the recent heat, but still enough to fuel stronger storms this afternoon. Today: Strong to severe storms develop after noon with the eastern
Continue Reading HELSINKI (AP) — Network infrastructure and 5G-technology provider Nokia has signed a new long-term patent license agreement with Apple to replace the current deal between the two companies that is set to expire at the end of the year. The deal, which enables Apple to use the Finnish company’s technology in its products, covers Nokia’s
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials have reported three people killed and 17 others wounded from Russian shelling in the country’s east and south. A visit by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez began in Kyiv on Saturday as a show of continuing support from Madrid and the European Union for
Continue Reading By GANTRY MEILANA Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — Former East Timor independence fighter Xanana Gusmao has been sworn in as prime minister of Asia’s youngest country after his party won the parliamentary election in May. Crowds cheered as the former guerrilla leader traveled by motorcade to the presidential palace in Dili, the capital,
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER, SYLVIE CORBET and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Rioting and looting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite a huge police deployment and 1,311 arrests, as family and friends prepared Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest and forced the French president
Continue Reading By AHMAD SEIR and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander will deliver a speech to commemorate the anniversary of the country abolishing slavery. There is speculation in the Netherlands he could offer an apology on behalf of the royal house. The king’s speech on Saturday follows Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Continue Reading By AHMAD SEIR and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander will deliver a speech to commemorate the anniversary of the country abolishing slavery. There is speculation in the Netherlands he could offer an apology on behalf of the royal house. The king’s speech on Saturday follows Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Continue Reading CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Authorities in Tajikistan say a Tajik man who fatally shot two security officers at Moldova’s main international airport is wanted in his native country in relation to the kidnapping of a local bank official. The General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan named the assailant as Rustam Ashurov, saying he is a member
Continue Reading By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya killing at least 51 people, police said. The Friday evening accident occurred at a location known for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley town of Londiani, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles)
Continue Reading By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has started Spain’s six-month presidency of the European Union with a lightning visit to Kyiv to underline the bloc’s support of Ukraine in the face of the invasion by Russia. Sánchez arrived in the Ukrainian capital by train from Poland early Saturday. The
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO The Associated Press Social media companies are once again under scrutiny, this time in France as the country’s president blames TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms for helping fuel widespread riots over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver. On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron accused social media of playing a “considerable role”
Continue Reading PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have raided two militant hideouts in regions near the border with Afghanistan. The raids triggered intense shootouts that left six insurgents dead during the Eid holidays. A military statement said late Friday that the raids were conducted earlier that day in Tank and North Waziristan districts
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Wheeler doesn’t want to symbolize a movement. She just wants to live as a trans woman in Kansas as she has for the past eight years: unapologetically herself – and with the official documents to prove it. But now Wheeler wonders if that’s even possible, given a new
Continue Reading By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Campaigning for Cambodia’s general election has officially begun. It’s an exercise that serves more as an affirmation of a nominally democratic process than a prelude to a genuine contest. Eighteen parties are contesting this year’s polls in which around 9.7 million people
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER, SYLVIE CORBET and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite massive police deployment, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted, as family and friends prepared Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest. The government
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world. Kuchlbauer had flashbacks to the surprise of soot coating her car three
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