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Guatemalan court orders release of journalist jailed for nearly 2 years on money laundering charges

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A Guatemalan court ordered the release Wednesday of journalist Jos Rubn Zamora, jailed for nearly 2 years on money laundering charges. Zamora, the 67-year-old founder of El Perio...

May 15, 2024

Participation in the NHL's player assistance program is up this season. That may not be a bad thing

It was untreated anxiety and depression that Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard blamed for his alcohol abuse, a problem that reached the point where he needed to step away from hockey. He mad...

May 15, 2024

Ukrainian troops pull out of some areas and Zelenskyy postpones foreign trips amid Russian offensive

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian forces withdrew from some parts of the country's northeast and battled Russian troops in other areas Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to postpone a...

May 15, 2024

Robert Fico, Slovakia's populist prime minister, who returned to power on a pro-Russian platform

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting after a political event Wednesday afternoon, an episode of violence tha...

May 15, 2024

Slovakia's prime minister wounded in shooting

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital. Reports on TA3, a Slovakian TV station, said that Fico, ...

May 15, 2024

Wong sworn in as Singapore's fourth prime minister, as Lee Hsien Loong bows out after 20 years

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Singapore's deputy leader Lawrence Wong was sworn in Wednesday as the nation's fourth prime minister in a carefully planned political succession designed to ensure contin...

May 15, 2024

Biden won’t participate in debates sponsored by nonpartisan commission, proposes 2 Trump debates

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday on social media that he won't participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan commission, instead challenging Republican Donald Trum...

May 15, 2024

Canadian historian Michael Ignatieff wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

MADRID (AP) - Canadian historian and writer Michael Ignatieff has won Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for his "critical reflections on the major conflicts of our time," prize or...

May 15, 2024

Swiss court convicts a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity

GENEVA (AP) - Switzerland's top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity over his role in repression committed by the west African country...

May 15, 2024

French president convenes top ministers to discuss spiraling violence in territory of New Caledonia

PARIS (AP) - At least two people were killed and three were seriously injured overnight in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, French media reported Wednesday, as President Emmanuel Macron ...

May 15, 2024