内容摘要：NEW YORK (AP) — A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was beaten, shocked and led to believe that his family was in danger if he didn’t give up his Bitcoin password.

NEW YORK (AP) — A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was beaten, shocked and led to believe that his family was in danger if he didn’t give up his Bitcoin password.

Many pastors like Eglé provide spiritual guidance in Venezuelanaffected by crime, drug addiction and

. Their task has proven challenging amid the 12-year crisis that stemmed from a drop intook power in 2013. And despite official claims of decreasingin 2024, he declared an “economic emergency” in April, granting himself powers to implement extraordinary measures.

“Working in these communities has been difficult,” Eglé said. “But we need to keep up our work.”Reliable statistics are hard to come by since official figures have not been issued in more than a decade, but academic experts and community members contend the number of evangelicals in Venezuela has grown in recent decades, just as it has in other Latin American countries.

The region’s string of social, political and economic crises is a key driver of that growth, said David Smilde, professor of sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans.

The second issue driving communities to evangelical churches might be the Catholic Church’s priest shortage, which means fewer faith leaders are now serving larger groups of people, said Smilde. With less stringent rules for clergy, evangelical churches can more quickly step into that void.The Council of Europe is not an EU institution and was set up in the wake of the Second World War to promote peace and democracy.

Follow AP’s global migration coverage atWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on

from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc.That agreement came after a call Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who had told Trump that she “wants to get down to serious negotiations,” according to the U.S. president’s retelling.