DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Senegal should hold the presidential election this month as scheduled instead of delaying it by 10 months, West Africa’s regional bloc said Tuesday, as the United Nations human rights office expressed concern about the unprecedented decision in one of Africa’s most stable democracies.President Macky Sall postponed the Feb. 25
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to “show some spine” and stand up to Donald Trump even as a Senate deal on border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid rapidly collapsed.Just minutes after the Democratic president’s remarks at the White House, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell emerged from a GOP luncheon at
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary last year after the state terminated a contract with it.Attorneys for the Transformation Project announced the settlement Monday. The nonprofit sued last year after the state canceled the contract for
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died Tuesday in a helicopter accident. He was 74.Chile Interior Minister Carolina Tohá confirmed the death of the former president. No further details were immediately released about the cause
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African court on Tuesday upheld a ban on leaders of a boisterous opposition party from attending a speech this week by President Cyril Ramaphosa opening the new parliamentary session after they were sanctioned for disrupting the event a year ago.The leader, deputy leader and four other officials
Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not.Meta said Tuesday it’s working with industry partners on technical standards that will make it easier to identify images and eventually video and audio
LONDON (AP) — Former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, who played a key role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, has died at the age of 76.Bruton’s family said he died Tuesday in a Dublin hospital after a long illness.“He was a good husband, a good father and a true patriot,” said a family statement
LONDON (AP) — A former Royal Air Forces pilot has taken to the skies in a Spitfire at 102 years old. Jack Hemmings, an ex-squadron leader with Britain’s air force, is believed to be the oldest pilot to fly the World War II plane. His 20-minute flight, from an airfield in southern England on Monday
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After being escorted in handcuffs into the Barcelona courtroom, Dani Alves sat in silence and listened to a stream of witnesses give testimony during the second day of his sexual assault trial on Tuesday.Alves is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the bathroom of an upscale Barcelona nightclub early in
Članica Evropskog parlamenta Gvendolin Delbos Korfild izjavila je danas da će ove nedelje (u vezi zahteva za obavljanjem međunarodne istrage o izborima u Srbiji) biti objavljena rezolucija u kojoj će biti i “veoma oštrih reči”.Delbos Korfild je za televiziju N1 rekla da je takvih izveštaja već bilo u prethodnom periodu, u vezi izbora u Bosni
