Islamic State group claims responsibility for knife attack in Solingen,...
SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — The Islamic State group Saturday claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany that killed three people and wounded eight others, according to its Amaq news...
View ArticleIsraeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza on the eve of high-level cease-fire...
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza, health workers said Saturday, as officials including a Hamas delegation gathered for high-level cease-fire...
View ArticleEU: Maduro has not shown 'necessary public evidence' to declare victory in...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The European Union's top diplomat on Saturday said that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has still “not provided the necessary public evidence” to prove he was the winner of...
View ArticleRohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe...
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding...
View Article5 people die in shelling of a Russian border region while Russian fire hits a...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist...
View ArticleTaliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan,...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official...
View ArticleFormer five-time Lebanese prime minister Salim Hoss dies at 94
BEIRUT (AP) — Five-time former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss, who served during some of the most tumultuous years of his country’s modern history, died Sunday at age 94, the current premier said....
View ArticleWhat to know about the heavy exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon's...
Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday launched their heaviest exchange of fire after months of strikes and counterstrikes that have raised fears of an all-out war. By mid-morning, the exchange of...
View ArticleIsrael and Hezbollah trade their most intense fire in months and then pull back
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war, as both sides signaled their most intense...
View ArticleWildfires in Brazil leave at least 2 dead in Sao Paulo sate. Dozens of cities...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Wildfires in Brazil's southern Sao Paulo state have killed at least two people, officials said Saturday. At least 36 cities have been put on high alert. Local and federal authorities...
View ArticleWhat is the Pacific Islands Forum? How a summit for the world's tiniest...
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The...
View ArticleArtists urge Serbia not to extradite to Belarus a critic of its authoritarian...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 70 European artists and film directors have signed an open letter urging Serbia not to extradite to Belarus a filmmaker and a prominent critic of the authoritarian...
View Article9 men have died after a pile of gravel collapsed on them in a quarry in...
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Nine men died when a large pile of gravel collapsed on them while they were working in a quarry in Zambia, police said Monday. The men were operating illegally in the quarry and...
View ArticleTaliban rejects UN concerns over laws banning women's voices and bare faces...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Monday rejected concerns and criticism of the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which ban women in Afghanistan from baring their faces and speaking in public...
View ArticleHundreds of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish territory of...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their...
View ArticlePolice in Iceland call off search at ice cave collapse that killed 1 man,...
LONDON (AP) — Icelandic police on Monday called off the search for anyone trapped in the previous day's collapse of an ice cave that killed one person and injured another, saying that all members of...
View ArticleVenezuelan electoral official asserts 'lack of transparency and veracity' in...
MIAMI (AP) — A Venezuelan electoral official has denounced what he calls a “grave lack of transparency and veracity" in last month's election results, rebuking authorities who declared President...
View ArticleRussia's deadly overnight barrage of missiles and drones hits over half of...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia battered much of Ukraine on Monday, firing scores of missiles and drones that killed four people, injured more than a dozen and damaged energy facilities in attacks that...
View ArticleAt least 100 people killed in central Burkina Faso in latest jihadi attack
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 100 villagers and soldiers were killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaida-linked jihadis, according to videos of the violence...
View ArticleGermany's newest panda twins thrive during first 5 days in Berlin Zoo
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's newest panda twin s are thriving at the Berlin Zoo. The cubs spent their first five days of life taking turns cuddling and drinking milk from their mother every hour. Born...
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