New Beatles fan experience set to open in London in 2027

LONDON (AP) – The Beatles are headed back to one of the band’s most famous sites with a new fan experience in London. Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by the Fab Four, announced Monday that it will open a new seven-floor fan experience at the company’s early headquarters.

South Africa to establish impeachment committee after president's cash scandal is revived

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – The South African Parliament said Monday it will establish an impeachment committee to reinvestigate four-year-old allegations that President Cyril Ramaphosa committed serious misconduct by hiding the theft of more than half a million dollars in cash, which had been stashed in a sofa at his game ranch.

Pakistan protests to Afghanistan over suicide attack that killed 15 officers

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan summoned a senior Afghan diplomat on Monday to lodge a formal protest over a suicide attack in the country’s northwest, bordering Afghanistan, that killed 15 police officers. Islamabad has blamed the late Saturday attack on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.

France woos Anglophone Africa at a summit in Kenya

NAIROI, Kenya (AP) – France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent.

Norwegian court to deliver verdict in rape trial of crown princess's son on June 15

OSLO, Norway (AP) – A Norwegian court said Monday that it will announce its verdict next month in the trial of the eldest son of Norway’s crown princess on charges including rape, following proceedings that cast a shadow over the royal family.

International envoy for Bosnia who clashed with Serb leader to step down

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Christian Schmidt, the latest envoy tasked with overseeing the ongoing peace implementation in Bosnia following the Balkans war in the 1990s, is stepping down, his office said on Monday.

Israeli troops get prison for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon

JERUSALEM (AP) – Two Israeli soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for desecration of a Christian object after one stuck a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon and the other photographed it.

ICC unseals arrest warrant for Philippine senator over drug war

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The International Criminal Court unsealed Monday an arrest warrant for a prominent Philippine senator linked to the deadly “war on drugs” overseen by ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, which allegedly involved the extrajudicial killings of suspects.

A timeline of the hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – An outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over weeks on a cruise ship as it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. At least three passengers have died and several others are sick and were evacuated from the ship. Health authorities are trying to trace passengers who left the ship previously.