PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s Supreme Court on Friday denied an appeal from former President Ricardo Martinelli, convicted of money laundering in the case of a media company he purchased, likely keeping him out of this year’s presidential race.The court ruled that a 10-year prison sentence handed down last year for Martinelli will stand, making
LONDON (AP) — Eighty years ago in one of the most ingenious and audacious acts of defiance of World War II, 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German POW camp into a snowy forest.For most of the escapees, it ended tragically. Three made it to safety, but the others were recaptured and 50
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece completed a major privatization Friday, selling its 30% stake in the biggest airport operator in the tourism-reliant country during an initial public offering, officials said.Shares in Athens International Airport are expected to begin trading on the Athens stock exchange starting Wednesday, the airport said in a statement.Finance Minister Costis Hadzidakis
LONDON (AP) — Authorities in Britain searched nationwide Friday for a suspect still at large two days after a chemical attack in London left a woman hospitalized with life-changing injuries and also injured her two young daughters. Metropolitan Police Commander Jon Savell said Friday that the woman is doing “very poorly” following the attack with
SINGAPORE (AP) — After a U.S. senator grilled the Singaporean CEO of TikTok about his nationality and suggested he was affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, Singaporeans are complaining about ignorant — or even racist — views of their country.TikTok CEO Shou Chew and executives of other technology firms such as Meta, X and Snap
TOKYO (AP) — A man who died at a Japanese hospital this week told police before he passed away that he was one of the country’s most wanted fugitives and had been on the run for nearly 50 years for being part of a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1970s, police said
PARIS (AP) — French farmers were gradually lifting their roadblocks around Paris and elsewhere in the country on Friday, a day after the French government offered over 400 million euros ($436 million) in various measures meant to answer their grievances over low earnings, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad.On major highways around the French
Francuska je zabrinuta stupanjem na snagu odluke centralne banke Kosova kojom se dozvoljava samo upotreba evra za gotovinske transakcije na teritoriji Kosova, navodi se u saopštenju francuskog ministarstva spoljnih poslova.Ta odluka, navodi ministarstvo, koja je doneta “ishitreno i neusklađeno” će imati posledice na svakodnevni život srpske zajednice na Kosovu “koja u velikoj meri zavisi od
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has bolstered defenses at a base in Jordan that was attacked by Iran-backed militants as it prepares for a wider U.S. response to the drone attack that killed three service members, a U.S. official said Friday. Even as a larger U.S. military response seemed imminent, some Iran-backed factions pledged to
BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas officials said Friday that the group is studying a proposed cease-fire deal that would include prolonged pauses in fighting in Gaza and swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but the militants appeared to rule out some key components.Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ top political leader, and Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official
