TALLINN, Estonia (AP) 鈥� Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of 鈥渄iscrediting the Republic of Belarus鈥� and sentenced him to four years in prison, as the country continues its crackdown on dissent.A court in Molodechno, a ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) 鈥� A South Carolina city is paying a $500,000 settlement to a man whose treatment by a police officer during what turned out to be a false arrest led to days of protests.An attorney for Travis Price said the city of Rock Hill defamed Price by suggesting he was the aggressor ...
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A New York City lawmaker was arraigned on a gun charge Thursday after prosecutors said she <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestine-brooklyn-college-protest-gun-vernikov-ef893dc772d8ddb94bfdecc3d3ba6220">brought a pistol</a> to a ...
RABAT, Morocco (AP) 鈥� Arab nations that have normalized or are considering improving relations with Israel are coming under <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-hospital-jordan-egypt-protests-590f24d154fb3cb256ec1707ec78b816">growing public pressure</a> ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� Iran is carrying out executions 鈥渁t an alarming rate,鈥� putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, the United Nations chief said in a new report. That's a 30% increase from the same period in 2022.Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...
PANAMA CITY (AP) 鈥� Facing a second week of impassioned, nationwide protests, Panama's National Assembly has nearly passed a new law revoking a controversial mining contract in an environmentally vulnerable part of country.The bill passed a second debate late on Wednesday and now faces a final ...
