The International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved Thursday the release of $700 million of a $3 billion bailout for cash-strapped Pakistan, the finance ministry said. The bailout is meant to enable Pakistan to emerge from one of the worst economic crises in its history. FORMER PAKISTANI PM IMRAN KHAN INDICTED […]

Thousands of people took to the streets of major cities in Slovakia on Thursday to renew their protests against plans by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code. The changes proposed by the three-party coalition government include abolishing the special prosecutors’ office, […]

An attorney for an upstate New York man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman who was with a group of friends who mistakenly turned into his backcountry driveway called it a “terrible accident” involving a defective gun as arguments in his murder trial began Thursday. Kevin Monahan, 66, is […]

The mayor of a Texas border city at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ‘s aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings accused the state Thursday of a new escalation as state troopers closed a large public park along the Rio Grande without asking permission. The park is a new […]

A New York City man was indicted Thursday on accusations that he posed as an immigration attorney and collected thousands of dollars in legal fees from immigrants seeking to become permanent residents. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the indictment of 33-year-old Pablo Israel Ortega Cuenca, who has been charged […]

The United States has received Kosovo’s request to purchase Javelin anti-tank missiles, the U.S. ambassador to Serbia on Thursday told President Aleksandar Vučić, who expressed “deep disappointment.” The U.S. State Department said later Thursday that it approved the possible sale of the 246 missiles and related equipment to Kosovo for […]

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is suggesting a New Year’s resolution for Illinois motorists: Ditch the DMV. The Democrat on Thursday announced expanded online services for the “Skip the Line, Do It Online” program to save taxpayers’ time and reduce historically long queues at driver and motor vehicles services facilities, […]

A former finance manager of a nonprofit organization that assists West Virginia disaster victims was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for the theft of $871,000 from the group. Benjamin Cisco, 30, of Charleston was sentenced in federal court for his May 2023 guilty plea to two […]

The Wisconsin Judicial Commission this week dismissed complaints filed by the former state courts director after he was fired by four liberal justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, documents released to The Associated Press on Thursday show. Three of the four targeted justices fired back Thursday, accusing the former court […]

A California ski resort near Lake Tahoe reopened Thursday, a day after an avalanche roared down a steep section of the mountain, killing a 66-year-old skier in the first U.S. avalanche death of the winter. Palisades Tahoe’s iconic KT-22 lift, which serves the area where the snowslide hit, was to […]