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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The motto for Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming visit to Spain is “Lift up your eyes.” And that’s exactly what millions of visitors to Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia already do as the unfinished basilica continues rising skyward a century after Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí’s death. On June 10, Leo will bless the recently completed central tower of Gaudí’s masterpiece which, topped by a white cross, has made it […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian investigators searched the National Nutrition Agency’s offices Wednesday a day after the president fired the head of the agency responsible for his troubled free meals program. It wasn’t clear whether the search by agents of the Attorney General’s Office was tied to a criminal investigation. The program delivered on a campaign promise of President Prabowo Subianto and aimed to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire swept through a building in a New Delhi neighborhood Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring several others, officials said. The building in the Malviya Nagar neighborhood in the southern part of the city had a restaurant on the ground floor and residential units above. Fire crews rescued 37 people from the building, fire official Abhilash Malik said. The fire was extinguished, but […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra formally completed all his obligations related to a prison sentence on Wednesday, when a royal pardon ended his four-month probation early. The 76-year-old billionaire populist, who was a dominant force in Thai politics for more than two decades, was released from a Bangkok prison last month to cheering crowds. There has since been speculation that he might continue to exert his […]

June 3 (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has launched its paid Prime service in South Africa, offering faster deliveries and media content for 59 South African rand ($3.61) a month or 399 rand a year. Here are some details: • Amazon Prime is already available in 26 other countries, with Prime Day, one of Amazon’s biggest sales events, scheduled for June 23-29 in South Africa. • […]

NEW DELHI, June 3 (Reuters) – At least 21 people were killed in a fire at a hotel in Delhi on Wednesday, police said, in one of the worst such incidents in the national capital in recent years. The hotel was located in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi, they said, a predominantly residential area popular with students and young professionals. At least 40 people have been rescued so far, police […]

June 3 (Reuters) – Ford Motor will recall 419,967 vehicles in the U.S. as seat belts that do not retract or extend properly can fail to restrain occupants as intended, increasing the risk of injury in a crash, the U.S. auto regulator said on Wednesday. The recall affects certain 2018-2022 Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said.  The seat belt pretensioner in the driver […]

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine struck an oil export terminal in St Petersburg hours before President Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum got under way in an attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief and show how vulnerable Russia’s big cities are. The attack on St Petersburg, Putin’s home city, and the location of his own ‘Davos’ – a showcase economic forum designed to attract foreign investment and show […]

June 3 (Reuters) – Republican Jim Desmond, a county supervisor and Democrat Marni von Wilpert are projected to advance to the November general election after Tuesday’s open primary for California’s 48th congressional district, U.S. media said. The seat was left vacant after Republican incumbent Darrell Issa opted against seeking re-election when the Southern California district was redrawn to favor Democrats as a result of the voter-approved redistricting initiative Proposition 50, […]