ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians’ graves more than 2,000 years ago, including one with an emotional family scene, have been returned to Greece from Switzerland. Greece’s Culture Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the two white marble works, which were decorated with relief sculptures, were brought back
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Tuesday a fight between gangs over drug and migrant trafficking routes was behind the massacre of 19 men in the southern state of Chiapas . President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the killings were part of a long-running dispute between two drug cartels. “There are two groups that
BEIRUT (AP) — The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Tuesday the only sure path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza. “If there is a cease-fire in Gaza , we will stop without any discussion,” Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said in an interview
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was in Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his first visit to the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was in Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his first visit to the country
Downing Street’s resident cat remains at Number 10, waiting to welcome the winner of this week’s British General Election. After more than a decade as ‘Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office’, Larry the cat’s tenure has endured longer than most recent British Prime Ministers. Downing Street’s resident cat remains at Number 10, waiting to welcome
LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic wore a gray sleeve on his surgically repaired right knee while winning his first-round match at Wimbledon on Tuesday without too much of a test. Playing his first match since tearing the meniscus in his knee at the French Open on June 3, Djokovic never faced a break point along
The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie rejected a plea deal Tuesday that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge, the suspect’s lawyer said. Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in which he is accused of stabbing Rushdie more than
Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report from the company Tuesday shows it is nowhere near meeting that goal. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13% in
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is reinforcing its firefighting teams this summer with 240 firefighters from Bulgaria, Malta, Moldova and Romania, who will be deployed in the country from early July until mid-September, during the height of the wildfire season, officials said Tuesday. It will be the third year running that firefighters from abroad will
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defense systems. Austin’s remarks came as Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with him at the Pentagon. And they
