Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe was convicted of witness tampering and bribery in a historic trial. Latin American nations with a Pacific coast braced for a tsunami that never materialized after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, off the coast of Russia. Meanwhile, Chilean investigators closed in on the notorious Venezuelan gang targeted by Trump.
This photo gallery features a selection of the most compelling images made or published by The Associated Press in July. It was curated by global photo editors Pamela Hassell in New York and Jon Orbach in Mexico City.
The National Transportation Safety Board will wrap up its public testimony on Friday about the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet earlier this year
Big fight scenes are everywhere in the Aquaman star’s drama about the real-life 18th-century warrior that united Hawaii’s four kingdoms. But so too is a lot of heavy backstory. It’s dense stuff
There is, probably literally, only one man who could have done it. Whatever claims Hollywood likes to make for itself regarding meritocracy and diversity, only Jason Momoa has the Hawaiian heritage and the commercial clout needed (via such roles as Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones and various outings as Aquaman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) to get an endeavour like Chief of War on to our screens.
Momoa co-created with Thomas Pa’a Sibbitt the nine-part historical drama, co-wrote every episode, executive produces and stars as the protagonist Ka’iana, a Native Hawaiian warrior who would become instrumental in the fight to unify the four Hawaiian kingdoms at the turn of the 18th century. It opens with lingering shots of O‘ahu, Maui, Kaua‘i and Hawai‘i, each island so spectacularly beautiful, so inviting, so intriguingly different from anywhere else and so lovingly captured by director Justin Chon that it all begins to take on a vaguely hallucinatory quality.
By my age, my German boomer parents had kids, a house, a car, a garden. All I have is a nervous feeling whenever I open my banking app
A couple of weeks ago, I came across an Amy Poehler joke in which she sums up the different generational experiences of money: “Boomers are all about money. Gen X is like: ‘Is it all about money?’ Millennials ask: ‘Where is the money?’ And gen Z is like: ‘What is money?’”
It made me laugh – but it also hit a nerve. It felt painfully accurate and oddly comforting. Maybe it’s not just me. I’m a millennial, and financial insecurity has been a theme in my life for a while. But recently, it’s grown louder, and I literally can’t stop asking: “WHERE IS THE GODDAMN MONEY?”
Carolin Würfel is a writer, screenwriter and journalist who lives in Berlin and Istanbul. She is the author of Three Women Dreamed of Socialism
A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it
Aamir Khan will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watch
About ten years ago, Aamir Khan became troubled. Despite being one of Bollywood’s most bankable superstars for more than three decades, he realised that only tiny numbers of Indians were watching him on the big screen.
Indian cinema is widely adored and has an outsized influence on society but just 2-3% of its 1.4 billion people go to the cinema.
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