DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a week after the deluge killed more than 11,000 people.Heavy rains caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel caused deadly flooding across eastern
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Afghanistan-based nonprofit said Saturday it is working with the United Nations and others for the swift release of 18 staffers, including a foreigner, detained by the Taliban.The International Assistance Mission said the 18 people were detained on two separate occasions this month from its office in central Ghor province and taken
ROME (AP) — Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland, undercutting the Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t verify diplomatic reports of Nazi atrocities to denounce them.The documentation
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President-elect Bernardo Arévalo plans to call Guatemalans into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office, he said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.It would be Arévalo’s first such request since winning the election Aug. 20. Since his landslide victory, the
Potpredsednica Stranke slobode i pravde (SSP) Marinika Tepić je danas ocenila da predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić, ministarka rudarstva i energetike Dubravka Đedović i preduzeće “Elektroprivreda Srbije” (EPS) “zbog slikanja kriju” da blok B3 termoelektrane “Kostolac” neće biti završen i bezbedan pre jula 2024. godine.”Pošto Vučić, Đedović i EPS i dalje kriju da termo-blok B3 u Kostolcu
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s economy received a substantial vote of confidence late Friday from Moody’s ratings agency, which upgraded the Greek credit rating by two notches but stopped just short of returning the formerly struggling country to formal financial respectability.Moody’s said it was upgrading Greece’s rating from Ba3 to Ba1, with a stable outlook.
MORIGAON, India (AP) — Monuwara Begum is growing weary of moving every time water pours into her home.The 45-year-old farmer, who lives on an island in the mighty Brahmaputra River in the northeastern state of Assam, said she and her family suffer from more violent and erratic floods each year. They live in knee-deep water
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A U.S. judge ruled that Argentina must pay $16.1 billion to minority shareholders of state-controlled oil company YPF due to the government’s 2012 nationalization of a majority stake in the firm.U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York issued final judgment Friday detailing the dollar amount that the South American
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’ s busy agenda for his time at the annual U.N. General Assembly next week will include meetings with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.He’ll then return to Washington for critical talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. White House national security adviser Jake
BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian court on Friday sentenced six men to sentences ranging from 20 years to life in prison on charges of terrorist murder in connection with 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a busy subway station, the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.A chief suspect, Salah
