ROME (AP) — Two American men convicted in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation faced another verdict on Wednesday in a new trial after Italy’s highest court threw out their convictions. After closing arguments in the morning, deliberations began around lunchtime and the tribunal president said a verdict
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s electoral commission fired its chairman on Wednesday after finding him guilty of sexual assault following a complaint by an employee. The General Election Commission’s ethics council said its chairman, Hasyim Asyari, committed the assault in October and it had accepted the accuser’s complaint “entirely,” the chief of the commission’s Honorary
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief warned Wednesday about rising hatred and discrimination around the world in a “mega-year for elections,” calling on voters to put rights of others in mind when they cast their ballots. Volker Türk made the call with major elections looming in places like France and Britain this week
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s Parliament on Wednesday voted down a minority government proposed by the center-right GERB party, which likely will bring the country closer to new elections. The move comes after six elections over the last three years that resulted in shaky coalitions. Lawmakers voted 138-98 to reject the proposal designed to make
LONDON (AP) — Coco Gauff likes No. 1 Court at Wimbledon. It’s where she beat Venus Williams back in 2019 when Gauff made her Wimbledon debut at age 15. On Wednesday, Gauff beat qualifier Anca Todoni 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the third round at the All England Club. “This is the court where I
TOKYO (AP) — In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of people with disabilities. An estimated 25,000 people were sterilized between the 1950s and 1970s without
BERLIN (AP) — An arrest warrant for a man who is also a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was lifted Wednesday by a German court in an ongoing trial over several unrelated sexual offenses he is alleged to have committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. However, the 47-year-old German, who
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An armed group attacked a wedding ceremony in central Mali and killed at least 21 people, residents said Wednesday, as the West African nation’s military rulers struggle to combat growing violence by extremists. The assailants rode on motorcycles into Djiguibombo village in the town of Bandiagara on Monday evening as residents
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Once a year, law professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory usually brings celebrities like Steve Harvey, Ludacris and Rick Ross into her Georgia State University classroom for some entertainment legal talk. But this time, she’s taking her next lesson across the Atlantic Ocean, from Atlanta to the Paris Olympics. Ivory and her law
MILAN (AP) — The European Commission on Wednesday approved Lufthansa’s takeover of Italian airline ITA with conditions to protect competition in a deal that Italy’s finance minister called “historic.” Lufthansa will invest 325 million euros ($350 million) to acquire a 41% stake in ITA , formerly Alitalia, from the Italian government, gaining full control by
