A drug offers hope even as virus cases rise in Africa, Asia

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Researchers on Tuesday announced the first drug shown to save lives among severely ill coronavirus patients, offering hope even as infection rates rose in Africa and Asia, and there were worriso…

Man arrested in shooting during Albuquerque statue protest

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 31-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting that happened as protesters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside a museum, poli…

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Lawyer: No quick extradition from W. Africa for US suspect

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Cape Verdean defense lawyer for a Colombian wanted in the United States on suspicion of corrupt activities in Venezuela said Tuesday the extradition process in the West African islands c…

Stocks rally on Wall Street, worldwide with hope for economy

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rallying worldwide on Tuesday, and Wall Street is heading for its third straight gain after U.S. retail sales rebounded last month by much more than economists were expecting.

South Africa marks Youth Day with masks, social distancing

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — With calls to protect each other against COVID-19, nearly 200 young South Africans, wearing face masks and keeping a distance, marked the country's Youth Day holiday, the 44th anniversary of the…

Racial Injustice, ADVISORY

The deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta in the span of less than three weeks have led to a push in the U.S. for more training of police officers in how to “de-escalate” tense situat…

Israeli PM sets August target date to open skies to flight

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Greek counterpart Tuesday he hoped to open Israel's skies as soon as August after a prolonged closure due to the coronavirus, and that Greece woul…

Patient fatally shot after killing NW Indiana hospital guard

MUNSTER, Ind. (AP) — A psychiatric patient disarmed and fatally shot a retired police officer at a northwest Indiana hospital early Tuesday before another retired officer working security at the hospital fatally sh…

MSF closes Kabul program after May maternity hospital attack

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Doctors Without Borders said it closed its operation on Tuesday in Kabul, ending yearslong work to support a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital. The closure came a month after a horr…

UK begins coronavirus vaccine trial; France pledges funding

LONDON (AP) — Scientists at Imperial College London will start immunizing people in Britain this week with their experimental coronavirus shot, while pharmaceutical company Sanofi and the French government announce…

North Korea destroys empty liaison office with South

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbolic display of an…

AP Entertainment Digest for Tuesday, June 16

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