CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy (AP) — Mamadou Kouassi’s searing, epic journey over African deserts, through illegal prisons and across the Mediterranean Sea in a smugglers’ boat informed Italian director Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated film “Io Capitano.” Some episodes that the Ivorian migrant witnessed on his three-year odyssey were too strong to make the final cut. Garrone’s film, which is nominated in the …

The police chief of a small Iowa town was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday of lying to federal authorities to acquire machine guns prosecutors say he sold for his own profit. The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements …

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Los estadounidenses redujeron sus gastos más de lo esperado en enero tras el derroche tradicional de la época decembrina. Las ventas minoristas cayeron 0,8% en enero, en comparación con el sólido ritmo de diciembre, cuando aumentaron la cifra ajustada de 0,4%, de acuerdo con el informe del Departamento de Comercio de Estados Unidos publicado el jueves. …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Hampton Pirates (5-20, 0-12 CAA) at Stony Brook Seawolves (13-12, 6-6 CAA) Stony Brook, New York; Thursday, 6:30 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Seawolves -11.5; over/under is 146.5 …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens (16-9, 8-4 CAA) at Elon Phoenix (10-15, 3-9 CAA) Elon, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Fightin’ Blue Hens -7; over/under …

LONDON (AP) — For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city’s Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. But for the past few years, there’s been something not quite right about the map originally designed by Harry Beck in 1933 — a collection of orange train lines, mostly orbiting the inner …

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s government plans to boost its defense spending by up to 19% over the next four years, citing a rise in global instability, including wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and gaps created when Swiss authorities cashed in on a peace dividend from the fall of the Berlin Wall decades ago. Laying out mid- and long-range …

Korean Football Association officials have recommended Jurgen Klinsmann be fired as head coach of the South Korean national team after an Asian Cup semifinal exit and reports of infighting among star players. Klinsmann was already under heavy criticism after South Korea’s upset 2-0 semifinal loss to Jordan last week and pressure intensified following media reports of a spat between captain …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Families of Indonesian activists who were kidnapped and tortured by the military 25 years ago demanded justice in a protest Thursday and expressed shock over the apparent presidential victory of Prabowo Subianto, whom they blamed for the atrocities. Currently the defense minister under outgoing President Jokowi Widodo, Subianto claimed victory in the presidential election on Wednesday, …

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed an announcement Thursday by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. “This is a really good commitment to progress, to growth, to modernity …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. All Times EST Thursday, Feb. 15 NBA Milwaukee at Memphis, 8:30 p.m. Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m. Minnesota at Portland, 10 p.m. NHL Anaheim at Ottawa, 7 …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Libya warned the country’s feuding political actors Thursday that if they don’t urgently form a unified government and move toward elections the oil-rich North African nation will slide into “disintegration.” Abdoulaye Bathily told the U.N. Security Council there are numerous alarming signs of such a slide and urged all political leaders …

NABATIYEH, Líbano (AP) — La cifra de civiles libaneses muertos en dos ataques aéreos israelíes subió a 10 personas, reportó la prensa libanesa el jueves, lo que hace de la víspera el día más letal en más de cuatro meses de escaramuzas trasfronterizas. El ejército de Israel dijo que mató a un alto comandante de la Fuerza Radwan de élite …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. UCSB Gauchos (13-10, 6-7 Big West) at UCSD Tritons (15-9, 9-3 Big West) San Diego; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tritons -6; over/under is 144 BOTTOM …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Jacksonville State Gamecocks (12-13, 4-6 CUSA) at Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (16-8, 6-3 CUSA) Ruston, Louisiana; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -10.5; over/under is 130.5 BOTTOM …