COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four years after South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its Statehouse grounds, Nikki Haley offered two separate explanations of the flag’s meaning in less than a week.Haley, the state’s governor when the flag was pulled in 2015 from its place of honor in Columbia, said in a 2019 interview
An advertising agency that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other prescription painkillers has agreed to pay U.S. states $350 million rather than face the possibility of trials over its role in the opioid crisis, attorneys general said Thursday.Publicis Health, part of the Paris-based media conglomerate Publicis Groupe, agreed to pay the entire settlement
PANAMA CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic cardinal disappeared this week in western Panama near the border with Costa Rica and investigators are searching for the missing cleric, authorities announced Thursday.Prosecutors in the state of Chiriqui said they opened an investigation Wednesday, a day after Spanish Cardinal José Luis Lacunza was last seen. Lacunza, 79
Washington (AP) — Two U.S. lawmakers have nominated Jimmy Lai, a former Hong Kong publisher now standing trial on national security charges, and three other jailed Chinese dissidents for the Nobel Peace Prize. While hundreds of people are often nominated for the annual prize, this nomination is certain to draw a sharp rebuke from Beijing.In
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Mass street protests intensified Thursday across Slovakia against a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code and eliminate the office of the special prosecutor that deals with major crime and corruption.Thousands were rallying as the protests spread to 31 cities and towns across the country
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Construction of two private villas inside a national park in Barbuda has sparked the latest environmental legal fight between angry residents and wealthy foreigners seeking to develop the Caribbean island with support from the government.George Jeffery, a local fisherman and tour guide, and the U.K.-based nonprofit Global Legal Action
FES, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities arrested 30 people this week in the city of Fes on multiple charges as part of a wide-ranging case involving blackmail, threats and trafficking of newborn babies.The North African country’s state-run news agency, MAP, reported on Wednesday that the suspects — including law enforcement agents, doctors, nurses and other
Politika | 01.02.2024 | access_time 19:10 FOTO: EP/Philippe BUISSIN Potpredsednik Demokratske stranke (DS) Miodrag Gavrilović rekao je da će predstavnici liste “Srbija protiv nasilja” sutra odlučiti ko će od njih ići na sednicu Evropskog parlamenta (EP) koja je zakazana za 8. februar, a na kojoj će jedna od tema biti izbori u Srbiji.On je, gostujući
Politika | 01.02.2024 | access_time 18:15 BETAPHOTO/MINISTARSTVO ODBRANE SRBIJE Ministar odbrane Srbije Miloš Vučević je danas ocenio da je Vojno-obaveštajna agencija (VOA) 2023. godine bila “siguran oslonac bezbednosno-obaveštajnog sistema Srbije”. BETAPHOTO/MINISTARSTVO ODBRANE SRBIJE Vučević je prisustvovao analizi rada u 2023. VOA koja je u sastavu Ministarstva odbrane. Vučevićev kabinet je saopštio da je on izneo
Kultura | Izvor: Beta-AFP | 01.02.2024 | access_time 00:00 Protesti koji su šest dana sprečavali i dolazak i boravak turista u Maču Pikčuu, najposećenijem mestu nekadašnjeg naroda Inka, okončani su u sredu dogovorom Vlade Perua i energičnih stanovnika koji predviđa da Vlada odustane od privatizacije prodaje ulaznica.”Štrajk je obustavljen”, rekao je ministar kulture Lesli Urteaga
