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Month: November 2023

Top UN court orders Azerbaijan to ensure the safety of Nagorno-Karabakh people

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N. top court has issued an order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure that people can safely leave, return to or remain in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the Azerbaijani military’s retaking of the separatist region in September. Armenia asked the International Court of Justice to order so-called

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Ethics chairman launches a new bid to expel George Santos after a withering report on his conduct

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee announced Friday he has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress, one day after the committee issued a withering report detailing substantial evidence that Santos converted campaign donations for his own personal

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Thousands march through Athens to mark 50 years since a student uprising was crushed by dictatorship

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 25,000 people have marched peacefully through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973. Violence broke out after the end of similar marches in two other Greek cities, where youths attacked police

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