Month: June 2022

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s film censors say it was Disney’s decision to ax the animated film “Lightyear” from the country’s cinemas after refusing to cut scenes promoting homosexuality. The Film Censorship Board says it had approved the movie but with modifications. Scenes and dialogues that it says violate film censorship regulations were ordered

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The wreckage of Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart yet rooted in the same ancient thirst for power at any cost. Two presidents, wily and profane, tried an end run around democracy. Mysteries from both affairs endure as the House inquiry into the Jan. 6,

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart, in vastly different eras, and they were about different things. But in both episodes, a Republican president tried to do an end run around democracy. Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in that eventually consumed Richard Nixon’s

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has urged residents to wear face masks indoors to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus. German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, an epidemiologist by training, said Germany was experiencing an expected increase in cases that amounted to a “summer wave.” He said on Friday that “voluntarily wearing masks needs

By SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Equating the oil and gas industry to Big Tobacco, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that “fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.” But President Joe Biden wasn’t quite itching for a fight. With both soaring energy prices and a

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to party cups. But many are getting backlash on social media for what critics say undermines the day, designated as a federal holiday last year to

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has placed price caps on fuel and some food and imposed special taxes on industries as the governments tries to ease an economic downturn and the highest inflation in nearly 25 years. But some affected companies, like budget airline Ryanair, have protested, and said they’d

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine security officials say two long-wanted Abu Sayyaf militant commanders accused of beheading two kidnapped Canadian tourists and a German have surrendered. They say the suspects gave themselves up to military officials in the southern Philippines and surrendered their assault rifles. They are accused of beheading

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Politicians and experts are meeting in Madrid to mark World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. The half-day meeting will be attended by United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification chief Ibrahim Thiaw and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres is also to address

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone — but not the end — of a decade-long legal saga sparked by his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents. WikiLeaks said it would

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new foreign minister has visited the Solomon Islands to assure the South Pacific island nation it does not need a security pact with China. The Solomons is the fifth Pacific nation that Foreign Minister Penny Wong has visited since her center-left Labor Party came to

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their cellphone. Chinese residents are required to have the health app, which displays a code indicating their health status,