When their church no longer felt safe, deacon Francisco Alvicio and his congregation made a plan. Cautiously, discreetly, they took their worship to their homes. “If I’m pursued at the church, I still have my Bible,” the 63-year-old Nicaraguan said. Praying in hiding became his last resort before fleeing his country in 2023. Like him
MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming approval to the first reading of a proposed law to prohibit the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The measure, which would need to pass two more readings in the Duma before being sent to
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, launched a new network on Wednesday to strengthen and further coordinate the continent’s fight against organized crime. The European Judicial Organised Crime Network’s first priority will be tackling drug-related crime. Drug trafficking cases at Eurojust have doubled since 2020. The organization said that
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Members of Britain’s governing Labour Party dealt Prime Minister Keir Starmer a blow on Wednesday, rejecting his decision to cut payments that offset winter heating costs for millions of retirees. The vote on the final day of Labour’s annual conference is not binding, but it’s a setback to Starmer’s efforts to
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran rose to 50 on Wednesday after one of the miners who was injured in the weekend blast died in hospital, the Iranian state television reported. A methane gas leak sparked an explosion on Saturday at the mine in
Politika | 25.09.2024 | access_time 11:00 Skupština Srbije počela je sednicu, treći dan za redom, na čijem dnevnom redu je rebalans republičkog budžeta za ovu godinu kojim je planirano da ukupni prihodi iznose 2.173,4 milijarde dinara, što je za 132,5 milijardi odnosno 6,5 odsto više u odnosu na inicijalni budžet. Predloženi rebalans predviđa povećanje fiskalnog
As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso. No one is waiting there now.
NEW DELHI (AP) — A strike by more than 1,000 workers at a Samsung India Electronics plant has entered its third week, and management is at an impasse over their demands for recognition of the employees’ union and higher pay, a workers union spokesman said on Wednesday, The employees strike in the plant near Chennai
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology improves , game studios are experimenting with generative AI to help build environments, assist game writers in crafting NPC dialogue and lend video games the improvisational
Politika | 25.09.2024 | access_time 11:05 Foto: Beta/Nenad Petrović Demokratska stranka je danas ukazala da javnost još nije dobila odgovor na pitanje gde je iz republičkog budžeta nestalo tri milijarde evra, koji je trebalo da budu prihodovani od naplate PDV, po osnovu uvoza. To pitanje je postavio poslanik i predsednik Demokratske stranke Zoran Lutovac u
