MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say they saw a huge increase in the number of migrants from Africa and Venezuela entering the country in 2023. Those migrants generally enter Mexico from Central America, and cross the country in a bid to reach the U.S. border. Mexico’s Interior Department said year-end figures showed that nine
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese flagship H3 rocket lifted off from a space station in southwestern Japan Saturday, successfully reaching its planned trajectory and releasing one of the two payloads in a key second test, overcoming its failed debut launch a year ago and buoying hope for the country to stay competitive in the global
Alexei Navalny, a crusader against corruption and staged huge anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday. (Feb 16). Alexei Navalny, a crusader against corruption and staged huge anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday. (Feb 16). Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump suffered a big blow Friday as a New York judge ordered the former president and his companies to pay $355 million in penalties for what the judge described as a scheme to deceive banks and insurers by exaggerating Trump’s wealth on his annual financial statements.The stunning ruling adds to
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government has shut down the country’s scouting organization and seven other nongovernmental organizations, state media La Gaceta reported Friday, the latest in an ongoing crackdown that has seen the government toss out religious orders, charities and civic groups.The Interior Minister, which regulates the operations of NGOs in the Central American
MIAMI (AP) — A Venezuelan businessman who helped hide almost $17 million in bribe payments by an ally of President Nicolas Maduro was sentenced to six months in prison Friday by a federal judge who expressed frustration that his cooperation with law enforcement was undone by President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of a top U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — A naturalized U.S. citizen who rapped about flying to “shoot New York up” after training with ISIS in his native Somalia has been charged with supporting a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said Friday.Harafa Hussein Abdi, 41, of Minneapolis was arrested recently in East Africa and taken to the United States this
With portraits, candles and flowers, thousands of people around the world paid their respects Friday to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after Russia’s prison agency announced he had died in an Arctic penal colony at age 47.Among Russians living abroad, there was an outpouring of grief. From London to Frankfurt and Belgrade to Buenos Aires
Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered.Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week returned to five reefs where they planted staghorn
