VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Rules for showing red cards to players at the World Cup were updated Tuesday because of two controversies in international soccer this year. FIFA president Gianni Infantino pushed for changes after Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni tried to hide verbal insults toward Vinícius Júnior in a Champions League game and Senegal’s team …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer and songwriter D4vd has been charged with murder, sexual abuse and dismemberment in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. His lawyers said he is not guilty and did not cause the death of the girl whose body, authorities said, was found in his towed Tesla SUV in Hollywood in …
ZURICH, April 29 (Reuters) – A slim majority of Swiss are backing an upcoming referendum proposal to limit Switzerland’s population to 10 million, and support for it is growing, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. The government has rejected the initiative backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) being put to voters on June …
SAO PAULO, April 29 (Reuters) – Destruction of the world’s tropical forests eased in 2025 from a record high, a report showed on Wednesday, underscoring how decisive policy can help keep trees standing despite pressures from a warmer climate and expanding agricultural frontiers. The world lost 4.3 million hectares (10.6 million acres) of pristine tropical …
In a memo late Tuesday to lawmakers, the Office of Management and Budget said money that President Donald Trump tapped to pay Transportation Security Administration and other workers through executive actions will be exhausted by May. It called on the House to quickly approve the budget resolution senators approved in an all-night session last week …
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Young men at risk of succumbing to gang violence slump over tables in an Oakland church. With them are prosecutors, clergy and survivors of shootings determined to show them they have more to look forward to than incarceration, injury or death. The message is not one of punishment but of unceasing …
JAKARTA, April 29 – Indonesian military prosecutors charged four officers on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in an acid attack on an activist known for campaigning against the expanding public role of the armed forces, seeking a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison. Andrie Yunus, a deputy coordinator with the Commission for Missing Persons …
KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine, April 29 (Reuters) – In a foggy field in northeast Ukraine, four soldiers stare at red and yellow dots on a screen in the back of a van, armed with interceptor drones and energy drinks to get through the night. These pilots, and about a thousand other crews like them, are on …
PRISTINA, April 29 (Reuters) – Kosovo is set for another snap election after parliament failed to elect a new president on Tuesday, pitching Europe’s youngest nation back into the thick of a political crisis. Parliament had until midnight on Tuesday to choose a head of state after President Vjosa Osmani’s term ended in early April, …
BEIJING/TAIPEI, April 29 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s economy will see unprecedented opportunities should it agree to union with China, Beijing said on Wednesday as it continues to try to persuade Taipei to accept its rule, which President Lai Ching-te’s government has repeatedly rejected. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has since late …