HAVANA, May 25 (Reuters) – Cuba’s government on Monday published a complete list of the names of prisoners who authorities had released following an April amnesty that came amid tense and ongoing negotiations between the island’s government and the United States. Cuba said in April it planned to free more than 2,000 prisoners from the island’s …
LA PAZ, May 25 (Reuters) – Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz said on Monday he would cut his salary and those of his cabinet ministers in half amid a growing political crisis marked by protests and roadblocks demanding his resignation. Speaking at an event in Sucre, the country’s constitutional capital, Paz said the pay cuts demonstrated …
LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) – A former senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church said on Monday that Czech police had found small containers of a white substance in his car during a search a day earlier, and denied any connection to those items. Metropolitan Hilarion, whose secular name is Grigory Alfeyev and who headed …
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, May 25 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has started preventive radiation treatment after being diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer, doctors treating the 80-year-old leftist leader and his office said on Monday. Lula had a basal cell lesion removed on April 24. “It was decided to proceed with complementary treatment …
ANKARA, May 25 (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on Monday a court ruling that ousted the leadership of the main opposition CHP last week, calling a police operation to evict the leaders from the party’s headquarters a “disgrace to democracy”. Riot police fired tear gas and forced their way into the Republican People’s …
PARIS (AP) — Stan Wawrinka waved a fond goodbye to the French Open after losing in the first round on Monday. The 41-year-old Swiss, the 2015 champion and 2017 finalist, is retiring at the end of the season. He made his final Roland Garros appearance 21 years after his first. Jesper de Jong finished off …
PARIS (AP) — Tennis players at the French Open say they haven’t experienced conditions this hot at Roland Garros since the Paris Olympics. And the 2024 Olympics were held in July and August. Temperatures for the opening two days of the clay-court Grand Slam have soared to 33 degrees C (91 F) — far beyond …
PARIS (AP) — Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records, including in the United Kingdom on Monday, and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France. The French sports minister, Marina Ferrari, posted condolences to the loved ones of a runner who died Sunday in a …
The team will still play its matches in the U.S. but its base has been moved to Tijuana, Mexico, just south of San Diego, California, according to Iran’s soccer federation. The development comes against the backdrop of the war in Iran, which the U.S. and Israel launched on Feb. 28. Sheinbaum said at a news …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that any agreement with Iran should include a requirement for several additional countries, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to join the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements from Trump’s first term aimed at normalizing relations with Israel. In a social media post, Trump said negotiations are “proceeding nicely” …