PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack, with residents fearful of the violence spreading throughout Port-au-Prince.The pop of automatic weapons echoed throughout Solino on Thursday as thick columns of
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The most prominent human rights group in Belarus is calling on the United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in the repressive country to pressure officials to give adequate medical treatment to an imprisoned opposition leader suffering from severe cancer.The appeal Wednesday by the Viasna group said Ryhor Kostusiou is being
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties assailed a resurgent far-right opposition party on Thursday over a report that extremists recently met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants, including some with German citizenship, which has led to a string of protests in recent days.Media outlet Correctiv last week reported on the alleged far-right meeting
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks’ game at the Golden State Warriors scheduled for Friday night has been postponed following the death of Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, the NBA announced Thursday.The date for the rescheduled game will be announced later.Milojević, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and a former star player
BANGKOK (AP) — A court of appeals in Thailand has handed a political activist what is believed to be a record sentence for the criminal offense of insulting the monarchy, giving him a 50-year prison term after finding him guilty of 25 violations of the law, a lawyers’ group said Thursday.Mongkhon Thirakot, 30, had originally
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and police have found a small factory used to make a kind of bomb usually dropped by drones, authorities said. The facility, which was found late Wednesday, was about the size of a warehouse and had a computer-controlled lathe and milling machine, suggesting the operators had considerable metalworking knowledge.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Tens of thousands of public sector workers walked off the job across Northern Ireland on Thursday to protest political deadlock that has left them without pay increases, and the region without a functioning government.Schools were closed, hospitals offered a skeleton service and authorities warned people not to travel unless it
BERLIN (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger was stopped for hours by customs at Munich Airport after entering Germany with a luxury watch that was potentially to be auctioned at a charity event.The former movie star and California governor was stopped for a routine check after arriving Wednesday, customs spokesperson Thomas Meister said. Schwarzenegger was able to
AMSTERDAM (AP) — England soccer international Jordan Henderson arrived in Amsterdam on Thursday amid reports he was about to sign a deal with struggling Dutch powerhouse Ajax to end his troubled six-month spell in the Saudi Pro League.Henderson was pictured in the Dutch city by British broadcaster Sky Sports, which said he met with Ajax
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A suspect was arrested in the brutal killing in Brazil of an American art dealer who was the co-owner of a prominent gallery in Manhattan, police said Thursday.Brent Sikkema, 75, was found dead on Monday with 18 stab wounds in his Rio de Janeiro apartment.Rio state police arrested a man
