The Mizzou men’s basketball team took care of business, winning their last few conference games to finish the season and earn a No. 25 spot in the AP Top 25.
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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan failed to appear in court in Islamabad to answer charges in a graft case against him, apparently a maneuver by his legal team to avoid arrest. Khan was required to appear in person and respond to charges of selling state gifts
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, Abel Alvarado, Karol Suarez, Caroll Alvarado and Eric Levenson, CNN Two of the four Americans kidnapped by armed gunmen in the Mexico border city of Matamoros on Friday were found dead and two were found alive on Tuesday, US and Mexican officials said. Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were found dead, a
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Derek Carr has proved repeatedly that he can produce as a passer. What the former Raiders quarterback hasn’t done is win in the playoffs, something he aims to change in New Orleans, where he’ll be reunited with Dennis Allen — his first NFL coach. Carr
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says China has given crucial debt restructuring assurances that mean the bankrupt nation could get its bailout package approved soon. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on Tuesday that he has sent a letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund, which he
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn, Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN A court in western Thailand on Monday sentenced five poachers to prison terms of five years each for killing a female tiger and her cub in a national park last year. The provincial court ruled the five men broke conservation laws by killing the protected animals
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed in muted trading Tuesday, as investors tried to digest a slew of economic data and awaited moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.3% to 28,309.16. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.5% to 7,364.70. South Korea’s Kospi added less
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By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The championship matchup that seemed inevitable will take place Tuesday night, but No. 9 Gonzaga had to work to make it happen. Anton Watson scored 20 points and Drew Timme had 17 to help the Bulldogs beat pesky San Francisco 84-73 on Monday night and
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will appoint a special investigator to decide whether there should be a public inquiry into reports of Chinese interference in Canada’s elections. Trudeau is also having a Parliament national security committee examine classified information on the matter. The Globe and
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Japan’s maiden launch of its new flagship space rocket ended in failure on Tuesday when controllers issued a destruct command just 15 minutes after liftoff, the country’s space agency said. “A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 around 10:52 a.m. (Japan Standard Time), because there was no possibility of achieving
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN A 25-year-old hiker from California was found dead after falling from a rocky bluff along the Oregon coast and being swept into the ocean over the weekend, authorities said. Henry Minh Hoang, of West Covina, California, was hiking beyond a safety fence in an area known as “the punch bowl” in
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET, NICOLAS GARRIGA and JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Demonstrators were marching across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests and strikes against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in what unions hope to be their biggest show of force against the proposal. Garbage
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres told the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday. Speaking to the key UN women’s rights group ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Guterres said gender equality is “300 years away” according to
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — In his first news conference since taking office, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang lashed out at the United States over deteriorating bilateral relations and Washington’s support for Taiwan. Qin also insinuated that America was undermining efforts for peace in Ukraine in order to extend the conflict. Qin spoke Tuesday on the sidelines
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Shraga Tichover is hanging up his fatigues. After more than three decades as a reservist in the Israeli military, the paratrooper says he will no longer put his life on the line for a country slipping toward autocracy. Tichover is part of a wave of
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation” with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role. Qin, who was until recently China’s
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate is facing a scheduled execution Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago. Gary Green is set to receive a lethal injection for the September 2009 deaths of 32-year-old Lovetta Armstead
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — In his first news conference since taking office, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang lashed out at the United States over deteriorating bilateral relations and Washington’s support for Taiwan. Qin also insinuated that America was undermining efforts for peace in Ukraine in order to extend the conflict. Qin spoke Tuesday on the sidelines
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The remains of a woman found in a small Massachusetts town in 1978 were identified more than four decades after her death using “old fashioned police work” — and help from advances in forensic genetic genealogy, officials announced Monday. Referred to for decades as “Granby girl,” alluding to
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN Firefighters in the southern Indian city of Kochi were toiling Tuesday to control toxic fumes from spreading after a landfill burst into flames five days ago, cloaking the area in a thick haze and choking residents. The towering Brahmapuram landfill in Kerala state is the country’s latest trash mountain to catch
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