VIENNA (AP) — An 84-year-old Austrian man who traveled to Afghanistan last year and was arrested there was released by the country’s Taliban rulers, the Austrian government said Sunday. The Austrian Foreign Ministry in a statement identified the man as Herbert Fritz and said he arrived in Doha, Qatar from Afghanistan on Sunday afternoon. If
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria on Sunday inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored strength and religiosity to one of delays and cost overruns.Built by a Chinese construction firm throughout the 2010s, the “Great Mosque of Algiers” features the world’s tallest
NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers continued to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a parade in the city’s historic Chinatown on Sunday.Asian communities across the world started ringing in the Lunar New Year on Feb 10, celebrating the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac. Fireworks, parades and other Lunar New Year rituals
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 15 Catholic worshippers were killed in a Burkina Faso village on Sunday when gunmen attacked a community as they gathered for prayers in the country’s conflict-hit northern region, church officials said.The violence in the village of Essakane was a “terrorist attack” that left 12 of the Catholic faithful dead
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct.The Illinois Courts Commission removed Adams County Judge Robert Adrian from the bench Friday after it held
Politika | 25.02.2024 | access_time 16:25 Foto: Youtube/Printscreen Poslanica i predsednica beogradskog odbora Stranke slobode i pravde (SSP) Mila Popović rekla je danas da je Srpska napredna stranka (SNS) ta koja se ne raduje izborima u Beogradu jer su u glavnom gradu “uz svu krađu na izborima” izgubili već dva puta.Popović je, komentarišući izjavu premijerke
Ekonomija | 25.02.2024 | access_time 12:15 Foto: Youtube/Printscreen Srbija ima najatraktivniji režim spoljnotrgovinskih sporazuma u Evropi, izjavio je ministar trgovine Tomislav Momirović obraćajući se u okviru zasedanja ministarske konferencije Svetske trgovinske organizacije u Abu Dabiju.”Srbija je jedina zemlja u Evropi koja ima potpisane Sporazume o slobodnoj trgovini sa Kinom, Evroazijskom zonom i Turskom, Sporazum o
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.Zelenskyy said that the number was far lower than estimates given by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government.“31,000 Ukrainian military personnel have been killed in this war. Not
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibian President Hage Geingob was laid to rest in the country’s Heroes’ Acre cemetery on Sunday following a state funeral attended by African leaders, the German president and Princess Anne, the sister of Britain’s King Charles III.Geingob died earlier this month at the age of 82 while receiving treatment for cancer.
The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was much less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to. Yet despite the availability of the technology all these years, fewer than one percent
