TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian leader said Tuesday he was considering a request for a pardon from a German citizen who has been sentenced to death on terrorism charges. Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko called a meeting to discuss the appeal from Rico Krieger, who was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment in June. Krieger’s
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Earlier this year, Baghdad ordered the camps to be closed by
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó Tuesday accused the European Union’s executive commission of orchestrating a stoppage of some Russian oil supplies into the bloc through Ukraine and warned that the dispute could lead to an energy crisis . Ukraine last month adopted sanctions against Lukoil — Russia’s largest non-state firm —
Politika | Izvor: Beta | 30.07.2024 | access_time 14:40 Ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije Marko Đurić imao je danas odvojene razgovore u Nikoziji sa predsednikom i ministrom spoljnih poslova Kipra o ekonomskoj saradnji, razvijanju turističkih potencijala i evropskim integracijama. Na sastanku s predsednikom Nikosom Hristodulidisom dogovorena je koordinacija aktivnosti međudržavnih institucija u cilju međusobne promocije turističkog potencijala, saopštilo
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Ilya Yashin , a prominent Kremlin critic who is serving an 8 1/2-year sentence for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine, has been moved from his prison to an unknown destination, his lawyer said Tuesday. The statement on the Telegram messaging app by Tatyana Solomina gave no further details. However, it noted
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Jon Rahm loves the big stage, the big crowd, the big moment. The Olympics provide one extra opportunity in a year marked by his departure to Saudi-funded LIV Golf, and the Spaniard arrived at the Paris Games with a shot of much-needed confidence. Rahm held on to win the LIV Golf
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Gray-haired Olympians are usually found in sports like sailing, shooting, and equestrian. Not on the track. Irish sprinter Thomas Barr is an exception. Having turned gray prematurely in his late teens, the now 32-year-old Barr hardly pays much attention to his hair color these days. Others do, though. After Barr ran
PARIS (AP) — Canyon Barry is a part-time basketball player. His full-time job is system engineer for a defense and space contractor. Barry, who will take the courts at the Paris Games searching for a 3×3 gold medal for the U.S. men’s team, has an undergraduate degree in physics and a master’s degree in nuclear
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — William L. Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre , the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80. Calley died on April 28 at a hospice center in Gainesville
