GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo is scheduled to be sworn into office Sunday afternoon. But just like almost every day since his resounding Aug. 20 election victory, the inauguration will be tinged with doubts and tensions.The still-serving Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, has tried every legal trick in the book to put him
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — For 75 minutes, Maj. Joe Amoroso quizzed his students in SS202, American Politics, about civilian leadership of the military, the trust between the armed forces and the public, and how the military must not become a partisan tool.There was one answer, he said, that would always be acceptable in his
Winter storms and cinema closures in North America didn’t dampen the opening weekend for “ Mean Girls. ” The Paramount release, adapted from the Broadway musical and the 2004 Tina Fey movie, earned $28 million in its first three days in theaters according to studio estimates Sunday. Not accounting for inflation, that’s more than the
MILAN (AP) — Prada brought nature indoors as a backdrop for its 2024-25 fall and winter menswear collection meant to get humans outside. Underfoot, beneath a plexiglass floor in the Prada showroom revamped for the new season, a man-made stream murmured over rocks and rustled leaves. Poised above, the fashion crowd sat on blue office
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two Iranian journalists who were serving long prison sentences over their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini have been released on bail pending their appeal, Iranian media reported Sunday.Niloufar Hamedia, who broke the news of Amini’s death while in police custody for wearing her headscarf too loose, and
A disgraced former Russian mayor convicted over bribery had his prison sentence cut short after signing a contract to fight with Russia’s military in Ukraine, local media reported Sunday.Oleg Gumenyuk, who served as mayor of the far eastern city and cultural hub of Vladivostok between 2018 and 2021, was convicted last year of accepting bribes
Politika | 14.01.2024 | access_time 16:15 AP Photo/Markus Schreiber Posrednik EU za dijalog Beograda i Prištine Miroslav Lajčak će održati odvojene sastannke s predsednikom Srbije Aleksandrom Vučićem i kosovskim premijerom Aljbinom Kurtijem na marginama Svetskog ekonomskog foruma u Davosu, rekao je portparol EU Peter Stano.Kako danas prenosi portal Kosovo onlajn, Stano je istakao da će
Politika | 14.01.2024 | access_time 12:10 Predsednik Skupštine Srbije Vladimir Orlić izjavio je da će novi saziv parlamenta biti konstituisan “u narednim nedeljama, u skladu sa procedurama i po zakonu”.Orlić je za današnje izdanje lista Kurir ocenio da su decembarski izbori “pokazali pravu volju naroda” i odbacio zahteve dela opozicije za ponavljanjem glasanja, posebno na
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A war of words erupted the day after Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections, with Taiwan on Sunday accusing China of making “fallacious comments” and China criticizing the U.S. for congratulating the winner.The verbal sparring highlighted the seemingly intractable divide over Taiwan’s fate, a major flashpoint in U.S.-China relations that risks leading
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Leaders of talks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s peace formula on Sunday said a growing number of countries are working to help set the groundwork for Russia to join one day, an admittedly distant goal as the nearly two-year war grinds on and neither side willing to cede ground.The fourth such
