LONDON (AP) — U.K.-based oil giant BP PLC said Tuesday it will reward shareholders to the tune of $7 billion this year through the purchase of its own stock, even as it reported a near 30% decline in profits in the first half of 2024. BP said in a statement its underlying replacement cost profit
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh observed a day of mourning Tuesday in memory of more than 200 people killed in recent weeks during violence that evolved from student protests over the South Asian country’s quota system for government jobs. After weeks of peaceful protests by students looking to change the system — which reserved 30%
PARIS (AP) — Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez has revealed that she fought at the Paris Olympics while seven months pregnant. Hafez posted on Instagram that she was “carrying a little Olympian one” hours after she had reached the round of 16 in women’s saber Monday. The 26-year-old fencer from Cairo upset Elizabeth Tartakovsky of the
MADRID (AP) — A judge arrived at Spain’s presidential palace in Madrid on Tuesday to take Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s statement, part of an investigation into allegations of corruption against his wife , which the premier had repeatedly called a “smear campaign.” A group called Manos Limpias, or “Clean Hands,” which describes itself as a
PARIS (AP) — A storm of outrage about the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony took a legal turn Tuesday, with a DJ who performed at the show saying her lawyer is filing complaints over a torrent of threats and other abuse that the LGBTQ+ icon has suffered online in the ceremony’s wake. Barbara Butch’s lawyer said
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the central part of an electoral reform designed to downsize the country’s increasingly bloated parliament, but overturned a planned change that two opposition parties feared could cost them their chance to send lawmakers to Berlin. The country’s last national election in 2021 produced a lower house
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Air New Zealand scrapped its 2030 carbon emissions reduction targets on Tuesday, citing lags in producing new planes, a lack of alternative fuel and “challenging” regulatory and policy settings. The move by the national carrier — one of New Zealand’s biggest companies by revenue — was the highest-profile reversal yet
Thousands of people demonstrated across Venezuela on Monday as the country faced a political standstill after both incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s main opposition coalition claimed victory in the nation’s presidential election. (AP video shot by Juan Arraez and Andry Rincón) Thousands of people demonstrated across Venezuela on Monday as the country faced
A Philippine official said Washington officials in Manila for talks will announce $500 million in funding to boost Philippine defenses and progress in a proposed military pact. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were holding talks with their Filipino counterparts Tuesday as well as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. A Philippine
PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Olympics famously launched with a rain-soaked opening ceremony that drenched athletes and spectators alike. Now, they’re facing the opposite experience Tuesday: a heat wave. Most of France is under a heat wave warning Tuesday, with temperatures in Paris and surrounding areas expected to climb to 35 C (95 F) or
