PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence for it, a Dominican judge ruled Monday. Judge José Antonio Núñez, in his decision, considered that Franco had been the victim of extortion …
BRUSSELS, May 25 (Reuters) – A fire at a textile warehouse in a town southwest of Brussels that prompted the evacuation of several streets on Monday was almost put out early in the evening and the toxic smoke plume is set to fade during the night, the town hall said on its website. People living …
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s air force targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon, including in the country’s eastern Bekaa Valley, late on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to intensify attacks on the Lebanese militant group. “We will hit them. It’s true that they are shooting drones at us, fiber optic drones. We …
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski threw 57 pitches of at least 100 mph — the most in a single game since pitch tracking began in 2008 — while getting 12 strikeouts to match his career high Monday in a 5-1 win against the St. Louis Cardinals. The previous record for 100-mph pitches in a …
CAIRO, May 25 (Reuters) – Explosions were heard in Iran’s Bandar Abbas city and coastal areas near the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported on Monday, adding that the cause was unknown. Tasnim said three explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas, while Fars said similar sounds were heard close to Sirik and Jask near the …
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 …