TOKYO (AP) – A law set to pass Friday by Japan’s parliament could doom its 1,500-year-old hereditary institution by insisting that only men can be emperor, sparking worry about the shrinking, fast-aging imperial family.
UK urges FIFA to investigate Argentina over Falklands banner at World Cup
News Minute – Video of Major World Affairs - July 16
NEW YORK (AP) – It’s an idea whose time, as it were, may have come – again. The twice-yearly changing of the clocks in the United States could be a thing of the past if legislation currently in Congress that calls for permanent daylight time makes it through.
Settler violence surges across the West Bank
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Polish prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian man with sabotage and diversionary activities on behalf of Russian intelligence, alleging he was paid to desecrate memorials honoring Polish victims of Ukrainian massacres in World War II in an effort to inflame tensions between the two countries.
LONDON (AP) – The U.K. government has nationalized British Steel to protect the nation’s steelmaking capacity after the company’s Chinese owners moved to shut the plant’s blast furnaces. The Department for Business and Trade announced the move on Thursday, saying it would save thousands of jobs.
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) – Matthew Baldwin teed off at Royal Birkdale, just as he has done countless times as a member of the century-old links who grew up a short walk away. What made Thursday different was having a full grandstand surrounding him and a shiny claret jug reminding him what’s at stake.
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