MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic was being deported rather than playing his first-round Australian Open match on Monday. The nine-time and defending champion was scheduled to play a night match on Day 1 in a program announced on Sunday while Djokovic was still in legal limbo. Three judges in the Federal Court later upheld…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has used his New Year’s Day appearances to encourage people to focus on the good which unites them and to decry violence against women. Thousands of Rome residents and tourists wearing face masks gathered in St. Peter’s Square to hear Francis lay out his recipe for world peace on…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry says he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used to stage political unrest in the U.S. capital. Harry made the comments Tuesday during a panel on misinformation in California. He said he made his concerns…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is pressing ahead with its aggressive campaign of offering coronavirus boosters to almost anyone over 12 and says its approach was further vindicated by a U.S. decision to give the shots to older patients or those at higher risk. Israeli officials credit the booster shot with helping suppress the country’s latest…
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that battered Haiti is soaring as rescuers race to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm. Authorities on Sunday raised the casualty toll to at least 724 dead and 2,800 injured. Thousands more are…
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has fired the director of the opening ceremony because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto says opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed. He was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his…
ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis temporarily ran a temperature three days after intestinal surgery, but routine tests proved negative. The Vatican’s daily update on Thursday said Francis was continuing to eat and move around unassisted, and had even sent his greetings to young cancer patients at Rome’s Gemelli hospital. But spokesman Matteo…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hatii (AP) — An official says Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has been assassinated after a group of unidentified people attacked his private residence. Interim Premier Claude Joseph says First Lady Martine Moïse is hospitalized. Joseph condemned what he called a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.” He said Haiti’s National Police and other authorities had…
ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is in good condition, alert and breathing on his own after the pontiff underwent a three-hour operation that involved removing half of his colon. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Monday that the 84-year-old pope is expected to stay in Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic for about seven days, assuming…
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics will allow some local fans to attend when the games open in just over a month. This goes against the country’s top medical adviser who has recommended the safest way during the COVID-19 pandemic is without any fans. Fans from abroad were banned several months ago. Japanese organizers have…