PARIS (AP) — Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov is promising stepped-up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app, his first public comments since French authorities handed him preliminary charges for allegedly allowing the platform’s use for criminal activity. In a Telegram post, Durov defended himself against the French judicial investigation, suggesting that he
GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights investigators on Friday urged the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war, blaming both sides for war crimes including murder, mutilation and torture and warning that foreign governments that arm and finance them could be complicit. The fact-finding team, in their first report
Aug. 30 – Sept. 5, 2024 Cadets sing the national anthem, an woman dances, a health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child and boys row on the Sava river in Serbia. Children visit a Blow Up Experience installation, actress Mahlagha Jaberi poses for photographers and Chinese J-10 fighter jets perform during the Egypt
TOKYO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is reported to be a big soccer fan, and he promised in a 2015 document to resuscitate the national men’s team, damaged by abysmal results on the global stage and widespread corruption in local leagues. He cannot be happy. Japan defeated China 7-0 on Thursday in a World
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The 14-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting four people at a Georgia high school was expected to make his first court appearance Friday, a day after his father was also arrested for allowing his son to possess a weapon. Colt Gray, who is charged as an adult with four counts of
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes thought for a moment that the Chiefs were headed to overtime. So did Ravens counterpart Lamar Jackson, who had found Isaiah Likely in the back of the end zone with no time left for a touchdown that appeared to tie the game. In the end, the NFL’s season
China’s new migrants By Caleb Diehl, Dake Kang, Yuri Kageyama, Caterina Morbiato and Huizhong Wu China’s latest generation of emigrants is more diverse and showing up in noticeable numbers in more places. While many still head for the United States and other Western countries, growing pockets of Chinese are changing neighborhoods from Mexico City to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The legal saga surrounding Hunter Biden took an unexpected turn when he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax counts after prosecutors refused to budge in their opposition to a special plea that would have allowed him to maintain his innocence. The twist that played out as jury selection was scheduled to
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya killed 17 students and seriously burned 13 others, police said Friday. There are fears that the death toll may rise, police said. The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county was being investigated, police spokesperson Resila Onyango
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millennia. Francis will visit the diocese of Vanimo on the main island of New Guinea, one of the most
