Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations as an increasing number of President Kais Saied’s opponents are arrested and several in prison stage hunger strikes.Yusra Ghannouchi, the daughter of jailed opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, plans to join other
WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging interest rates are intensifying the challenges for the U.S. economy and threatening to derail the Federal Reserve’s drive to tame inflation without causing a deep recession. Since mid-summer, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, a benchmark for many loans, has steadily climbed, causing a spillover rise in other borrowing costs.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan security forces on Thursday briefly detained opposition figure Bobi Wine and foiled a planned street demonstration by his supporters who intended to welcome him at the airport.Wine, a singer and former lawmaker whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, was driven under police escort to his home outside Kampala after his
VIENNA (AP) — A special unit of police and customs officials have raided several properties of a Russian national in the southern state of Bavaria, officials said Thursday.The unidentified Russian is subject to sanctions and asset freezes by the European Union, German customs officials said. The European Union, the United States and other western nations
LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities have signed an extradition order for an American fugitive accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah.In response to a freedom of information request, the Scottish government on Thursday said an extradition order for the man local officials refer to as Nicholas Rossi had been
LONDON (AP) — Concerns from regulators about the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in Britain’s cloud computing market have triggered a investigation into the competitiveness of the key industry.The U.K. communications regulator Ofcom said Thursday that its yearlong study of the cloud communications services market found features that could limit competition. British businesses face barriers
MADRID (AP) — Soldiers and firefighters were battling to control a new wildfire on Spain’s Tenerife island that has forced some 3,000 people to leave their homes for safety, the Canary Islands government said Thursday.The blaze, which started Wednesday, is centered on the towns of Santa Úrsula and La Orotava in the mountainous northeast of
Ukrupnjavanje i ujedinjavanje državotvnorne opozicije je primer političke zrelosti i ozbiljnosti koju pokazujemo pred građanima, a ako to isto urade kolege iz ostatka opozicije na prozapadnom političkom polu, to će biti motiv biračima za veću izlaznost na izborima, a neka biraju ko im je ideološki bliži, izjavio je predsednik pokreta Dveri Boško Obradović.Obradović je za
Ispred vojnog objekta “Karaš” na Topčideru danas će članovi porodice obeležiti 19. godišnjicu pogibije gardista Vojske Srbije i Crne Gore Dragana Jakovljevića i Dražena Milovanovića, koji su na tom mestu pronađeni mrtvi 5. oktobra 2004. godine.Vojna istraga je tvrdila da se radilo o ubistvu i samoubistvu, dok je nezavisna državna komisija utvrdila da ih je
GRANADA, Spain (AP) — Some 50 European leaders are gathering in southern Spain’s Granada on Thursday to stress they that they stand by Ukraine, at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is at the meeting of the European Political Community forum, which was formed in the wake of Russia’s
