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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s President Nicusor Dan nominated one of his advisors to be prime minister on Thursday as he seeks to end a political crisis after the previous coalition collapsed last month. Dan nominated 44-year-old Eugen Tomac, who is also a member of the European Parliament, to try to form a government after weeks of deliberations and political deadlock in the European Union-member country. The nomination will need […]

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have paid tribute to former MI6 spy chief Alex Younger after his death at the age of 62. Younger led the U.K.’s foreign espionage agency, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service, from 2014 to 2020, and was one of the first holders of the post – code-named C – to be publicly named. The government said he had […]

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s parliament on Thursday gave approval for the new government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa, marking a turn to the right for the small European Union country. Lawmakers backed the new government in a 49-30 vote in the 90-member assembly. The vote came after parliamentary elections held in March that produced no clear winner. Former liberal Prime Minister Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement won most votes, but […]

BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says several employees were injured on Thursday after the nose gear of a Boeing jet “unexpectedly” retracted, causing the nose of the plane to fall several meters (yards) to the ground and breaking off the door flaps of the nose gear bay. The incident took place while the 787-9 Dreamliner was parked at the gate, with only crew members and ground staff on board, […]

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Thursday that foreign artificial intelligence platforms could be used against Canadians. Carney said the defining technology of our era is here and said Canada is too dependent on foreign suppliers. He made the remarks while unveiling his government’s strategy on AI. Carney warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier his year that global hegemons like the United States have […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a prosecutor’s appeal of an order that the state’s fake elector case against President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others over the 2020 presidential election be sent back to a grand jury. The decision marks another setback for Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes as she struggles to push the sprawling […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is done, and it’s set to be filled with water any day now, his administration says. Trump noted the work to paint the shallow basin a deep shade, which he calls “American flag blue,” was completed on Wednesday. The administration said in a court filing it’s set to be filled with water no later than Sunday. As […]

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t the rats. Or the smells. Or the germs. No, the most unpleasant part of descending into New York City’s vast sewer system, according to former urban explorer Steve Duncan, was the cockroaches. “They’re all over the place, crawling on walls, dropping down on you,” Duncan recalled this week. “They were the worst.” Duncan, 48, who now lives in Maryland, reflected on his years documenting […]

BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read has filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and the town of Canton, alleging misconduct and negligence in the investigation that led to her prosecution in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. The suit filed Thursday in Bristol County Superior Court argues that Read’s acquittal last June revealed “an embedded culture of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and institutional rot at the very […]