Month: June 2024

By MOUSTAPHA DIALLO Associated Press SAN, Mali (AP) — For hundreds of years, people have gathered in the southern Mali town of San for a collective fishing rite in June that begins with animal sacrifices and offerings to the water spirits of Sanké pond. The rite is on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. The

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ and CRISTIANA MESQUITA Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba that he — and his guitar — helped evoke. Troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, one of

SYDNEY (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of committing a terrorist act by stabbing a bishop in a Sydney church in April faces two additional charges. The boy was arrested at the scene of the stabbing on April 15 in an Assyrian Orthodox church as a service was being streamed online. A prosecutor told the

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A large excavator stretched up and punched out a window on the top floor of a three-story classroom building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland, Florida’s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a long-awaited demolition got underway. About 100 yards away,

By FREIDA FRISARO, TERRY SPENCER and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Although more rain could trigger additional isolated Florida flooding on Friday, forecasters say the strong, persistent storms that dumped up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) in southern parts of the state appear to have passed. Some neighborhood streets in the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have converged on a vast tent camp in the desert near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, officially beginning the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the city of Mecca so far on Friday. They expect the

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-built pier to carry food to Gaza is facing one of its most serious challenges yet. The United Nations is deciding if it can keep safely and ethically deliver supplies from the U.S. sea route to starving Palestinians. The U.N. has paused

By STEPHANY MATAT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump has marked his 78th birthday by addressing a fawning crowd in Florida, promising to crack down hard on the U.S.-Mexico border and repeatedly dismissing his opponent in November’s election, President Joe Biden, as too frail to handle a second

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden’s campaign is using social events like bingo and pickleball to get older Americans engaged in his quest for a second term. The campaign held its first Biden Bingo event Thursday in Arizona. The state is a crucial battleground and a popular destination for

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Jones has pushed many theories over the last three decades, including that the U.S. government was behind or failed to stop the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 attacks. As the outlandish nature of his false claims grew, so did his media empire, with annual

By DAVE COLLINS and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the immediate future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press BARI, Italy (AP) — The Group of Seven leading industrialized nations turned their attention to migration, artificial intelligence, economic security and the Indo-Pacific region on Friday, the second and final day of their summit in Italy. The G7 leaders stressed their determination to meet global challenges “at a crucial moment

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out the first steps toward peace in Ukraine even though Russia, which launched the war, isn’t attending. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government didn’t want Russia involved. But the Swiss insist that Russia must be