A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped by other men while unconscious testified Thursday that her world collapsed when police uncovered the years of alleged abuse. A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped by other men while
There’s an army taking to Mexico City’s streets — The Tree Army. Founder, Arturo Hernández, cruises the city on his skateboard looking for acts of tree vandalism that can range from illegal cutting to people pouring concrete on a tree’s roots. (AP Video by Julián Trejo Bax) There’s an army taking to Mexico City’s streets
More than two months after Hurricane Beryl, the strongest July Atlantic hurricane on record, some farmers in Jamaica are still unable to restore their crops and repair their homes. It’s a particular burden on female farmers, who make up one-third of the country’s registered farmers and are often heads of household caring for multiple generations.
PARIS (AP) — The city of Paris wants to honor the late Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her. The proposal was announced by city mayor Anne Hidalgo on Friday and will be discussed by elected city officials in October. Cheptegei died on Thursday at a Kenyan hospital where she
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Vistara airline flight en route to Germany made a forced landing in Turkey on Friday following a bomb threat, a Turkish official said. Flight UK27 from Mumbai to Frankfurt, with 247 passengers and crew on board, landed at Erzurum airport, in eastern Turkey, Gov. Mustafa Ciftci told the state-run Anadolu
CROSS KEYS, Jamaica (AP) — Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the rain rushed in, a violent wind ripped at the roof, piece by piece. “Everything just fell,” Wisdom, 79, said of the day Hurricane Beryl, the strongest July Atlantic hurricane on
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Scooting on his electric skateboard through a southern Mexico City neighborhood, Arturo Hernández spots a likely target for his next action and uploads a photo to social media calling his followers to help. A couple of days later, he and several of them are swinging sledgehammers at a thick layer of
Mass shootings have effects on communities that are felt long after the day’s tragedy. School shootings in particular can have physical, emotional and behavioral effects on kids — even if the shooting occurred on the other side of the country. Exposure to school shootings, even if indirectly, is shown to disrupt people’s sense of safety
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has asked Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida to “provide clarifications” to investigators regarding reports that he was involved in sexual harassment, the presidential palace said in a statement released at about midnight Thursday, without providing any details of the allegations. “The federal government recognizes the seriousness of the
LONDON (AP) — A U.S. mother’s extradition fight to avoid trial in the killings of her children hit a setback Friday as new evidence appeared to undermine her argument that sending her home from the U.K. would violate her rights. Kimberlee Singler’s attorney had argued that sending her back to the U.S. would violate European
