NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police sergeant who hurled a plastic cooler at a man fleeing officers on a motorcycle, causing a crash that killed the rider, was charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault.

Erik Duran pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday in the Bronx and made bail, which was set at $150,000. Dozens of police officers came to court in his support.

Duran, 37, was suspended shortly after the death of Eric Duprey and

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that authorities violated the privacy rights of a group of women who were arrested and publicly identified in 2012 as HIV-positive prostitutes who allegedly endangered public health.

The case was brought to the Strasbourg, France-based court by 11 Greek women, 10 of whom had been arrested and charged with intentionally attempting to inflict serious bodily harm by allegedly having unprotected sex with customers.

The 11th woman was mistakenly identified as

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government on Tuesday gave Northern Ireland politicians until Feb. 8 to restore the collapsed regional government in Belfast, after a deadline this month passed without an end to the deadlock.

The extension comes amid signs Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party is close to deciding whether to end a boycott that has kept the on ice for almost two years.

The British government is legally obliged to call new Northern Ireland elections now that a previous deadline of Jan. 18 has passed

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it conducted airstrikes in Somalia over the weekend that killed three al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants and that there were no civilian casualties.

The U.S. Africa Command, based in Stuttgart Germany, said in a statement that the strikes were done at the request of Somalia’s government, and they were carried out in a remote area about 35 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of port city Kismayo on Sunday

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce is extending his “back to basics” curriculum push into kindergarten.

The government plans to spend the next year consulting on new mandatory learning to include in the kindergarten curriculum, including the foundations of coding and plans to release it in the spring of 2025 for implementation that September.

Lecce says it will ensure students have strong reading, writing and math skills when they enter Grade 1.

The government has introduced new elementary curricula in math, science and language in recent years, and Lecce

TORONTO — Strength in base metal stocks helped Canada’s main stock index gain more than 100 points Tuesday ahead of the upcoming Bank of Canada interest rate decision, while U.S. markets were mixed as earnings reports continued to roll in.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 110.29 points at 21,034.59.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 96.36 points at 37,90

Filmmaker Nisha Pahuja hopes that an Oscar nod for her documentary “To Kill a Tiger” will be a small step in a movement of justice for sexual assault survivors.

The Toronto-based director earned a best documentary feature nomination for the National Film Board of Canada co-production, which tells the story of one father’s push for accountability after his 13-year-old daughter is raped by three men at a wedding in India.

“There’s a belief I have in this film, that it

CHICAGO (AP) — A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the 23-year-old fatally shot himself during a confrontation with law enforcement in Texas.

The Illinois authorities provided a clearer timeline of the shootings on Tuesday, saying they believe all eight people killed and a ninth person wounded were shot Sunday and Romeo Nance fled the area by that evening. But they told reporters there is no evidence of