Dec 10 Peru's first female president asks Cabinet to take anti-corruption pledge By Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press Peru’s newest president, Dina Boluarte, swore in her Cabinet on Saturday just three days after becoming the country’s first female head of state and asked each minister to pledge not to be corrupt while in office. Continue reading
Dec 10 New law in Japan takes aim at Unification Church's coercive fundraising tactics By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage. Continue reading
Dec 10 Morocco reaches World Cup semifinals after defeating Portugal 1-0 By Steve Douglas, Associated Press Morocco delivered a seminal moment in the nearly 100-year history of soccer's biggest tournament, beating Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portugal team 1-0 Saturday in the another shocking result in the first World Cup staged in the Middle East. Continue reading
Dec 10 What's at stake in Turkey's military escalation in Syria? By Bassem Mroue, Suzan Fraser, Associated Press After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and international players are trying to gauge whether Ankara’s threats of a ground invasion are serious. Here’s a look at what various foreign powers and groups embroiled in the… Continue reading
Dec 10 PHOTOS: Bakhmut 'destroyed' as Russian offensive grinds on in eastern Ukraine By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press Russian forces have turned the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut into ruins, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while Ukraine's military on Saturday reported missile, rocket and air strikes in multiple parts of the country that Moscow is trying to conquer after months of… Continue reading
Dec 10 Soccer journalist Grant Wahl, 49, dies at World Cup match in Qatar By Ronald Blum, Associated Press Grant Wahl, an American journalist who helped grow the popularity of soccer in the U.S. and reported on some of the biggest stories in the sport, died Saturday while covering a World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands. Continue reading
Dec 09 New Peru president appears in military ceremony to cement power By Regina Garcia Cano, Franklin Briceno, Associated Press Peru’s first female president appeared in a military ceremony on national television on Friday in her first official event as head of state, an attempt to cement her power and buck the national trend of early presidential departures. Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 6:03 News Wrap: Brittney Griner returns to the U.S. amid discussions about more prisoner swaps In our news wrap Friday, Brittney Griner lands in the U.S. a day after Russia exchanged her for a convicted arms dealer, health experts urged older Americans to get COVID boosters before the holidays, Ukraine says Russian shelling in the… Continue watching
Dec 09 Watch 6:36 Author and Nobel Prize Laureate Annie Ernaux discusses her genre-bending work By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet French writer Annie Ernaux delivered her Nobel lecture on Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, and spoke of how she hopes her work, which mixes fiction and memoir, has affected others. And this weekend, she and this year’s other Nobel Laureates will… Continue watching
Dec 09 Biden wants African Union to be added to the Group of 20 nations By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press President Joe Biden plans to announce at next week's U.S.-Africa summit that his administration supports adding the African Union as a permanent member of the Group of 20 nations. Continue reading