The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea said Monday it won’t negotiate to release arrested American citizens if a former detainee doesn’t stop using what it called slanderous language about the North. American missionary Kenneth Bae, who was freed by North Korea in 2014 along with another […]
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By George Jahn The Associated Press VIENNA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday that his country backs ratification of a treaty banning nuclear tests but did not commit to a time frame, a senior U.N. official said after meeting with the Israeli leader. Lassina Zerbo, who heads the […]
By Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association dim any prospects for changes in the nation’s laws. The Senate will vote Monday night on […]
By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK — Fifty years ago, when a small group of activists founded the National Organization for Women, the immediate issue that motivated them was sex discrimination in employment. They were irate that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was refusing to ban “Help Wanted […]
By Joe McDonald THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world’s fastest computers for the seventh straight year ‚Äî and for the first time the winner uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology. The announcement Monday is a new milestone for Chinese […]
By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press TOKYO — The U.S. robotics expert tapped to head Toyota’s Silicon Valley research company says the $1 billion investment by the giant Japanese automaker will start showing results within five years. Gill Pratt told reporters that the Toyota Research Institute is also looking ahead […]
By Jeffrey Collins And Jonathan Drew The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston’s public housing projects, and a heroic waterfront statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston still faces Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War […]
By Maggie Michael The Associated Press CAIRO — The Egyptian investigation committee says the flight data recorder of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been recovered from the Mediterranean Sea. The committee said in a statement Friday that the vessel searching for […]
By Kelvin Chan The Associated Press HONG KONG — A Hong Kong bookseller’s revelation of months spent in harrowing detention by mainland Chinese authorities is inflaming tense relations between the semiautonomous city and Beijing, with pro-democracy activists staging protests Friday. Lam Wing-kee’s account to reporters a day earlier directly contradicted […]
By Shawn Pogatchnik And Jill Lawless The Associated Press BIRSTALL, England — Campaigning in Britain’s European Union membership referendum was at a halt and normal political life was suspended Friday as the country absorbed the daylight slaying of lawmaker Jo Cox with shock ‚Äî and worry that the political fury […]
By Associated Press The Associated Press DETMOLD, Germany — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served as a guard at Auschwitz has been found guilty of more than 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he helped the Nazi death camp kill 1.1 million Jews and others. The dpa […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press In the world of summer barbecues, the pickle hardly plays a starring role. Truth to be told, “hold the pickles” is my standard order, as I am not a fan of pickles on a cheeseburger, nor do I particularly care for pickle juice leaking […]
