Cocaine trade in the rugged Micay Canyon threatens Colombia's peace efforts
EL PLATEADO, Colombia (AP) — El Plateado in the rugged mountains of southwestern Colombia might seem like a typical community in the countryside — until you hear the bursts of machine-gun fire and...
View ArticleA US Navy sailor is detained in Venezuela, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy sailor has been detained in Venezuela after traveling there unauthorized on personal business, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The enlisted sailor was detained last week by...
View ArticleThe US is considering the creation of a UN peacekeeping operation for Haiti...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. is mulling a U.N. peacekeeping operation in Haiti as one way to secure funding and staffing for a Kenya-led mission deployed to quell gang violence in the...
View ArticleA remote Indigenous tribe kills two loggers encroaching on their land in Peru
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Two loggers have been killed by bow and arrow after allegedly encroaching the land of the uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru's Amazon, according to a rights...
View ArticleA day after 12 deaths, other migrants risk their lives trying to cross the...
WIMEREUX, France (AP) — A day after 12 migrants died when their small inflatable ripped apart on a failed effort to cross the English Channel, several dozen others made another crossing attempt on a...
View ArticleSurprise Ukrainian resignations include the nation's top diplomat
A spate of resignations from Ukraine’s government came with one major surprise: the departure of Dmytro Kuleba, the career diplomat who courted Western support for his country’s defense as its...
View ArticleUN officials hail limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow polio vaccinations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children's polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly...
View ArticlePentagon leaders head to Germany for talks on Ukraine military aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. military leaders will be in Germany to discuss Ukraine's wartime needs as Russia has conducted one of its deadliest airstrikes in the conflict and Ukraine presses its...
View ArticleRomanian prosecutors lose appeal to jail Andrew Tate. He will remain under...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital on Thursday rejected an appeal by prosecutors to jail divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate, who will remain under house arrest amid a second...
View ArticleTorrential rains in northern Italy flood Milan and leave a man missing
ROME (AP) — A wave of violent rainstorms battered northern Italy on Thursday, flooding the financial hub of Milan and raising fears for the life of a man who was swept away on a tractor in the...
View ArticleChina's halt of foreign adoptions leaves questions about pending cases
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government is ending its intercountry adoption program, and the U.S. is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of American families with pending...
View ArticleVenezuela's Machado calls on the international community to step up the...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday vowed to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January. She also urged the...
View ArticleUkraine gets a new chief diplomat as the war with Russia enters a critical phase
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament approved the appointment of a new foreign minister Thursday, two lawmakers said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought to breathe fresh life into his...
View ArticleIsrael-Hamas war latest: Israeli strikes kill 6 in occupied West Bank,...
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including the son of a prominent jailed militant. Israel said all of those killed were militants who had...
View ArticleBlinken arrives in Haiti to show US support for fighting gang violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Thursday in Haiti to reaffirm the U.S. government’s commitment to a multinational mission to fight gangs in the Caribbean...
View ArticleA French woman whose husband is accused of inviting men to rape her testifies...
AVIGNON, France (AP) — A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped by other men while she was unconscious testified Thursday that her world collapsed when police...
View ArticleCanada's NDP leader says end of agreement with Liberals makes election timing...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The leader of Canada’s leftist New Democratic Party said Thursday that policies supported by liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre...
View ArticleMan who threatened to kill officers at German police station believed to have...
BERLIN (AP) — A man armed with a machete was overwhelmed and arrested after threatening to kill officers at a police station in western Germany early Friday, prosecutors said. Investigators said they...
View ArticlePrince Hisahito becomes the first royal male in Japan to reach adulthood in 4...
TOKYO (AP) — In a big milestone for Japan's royal family, Prince Hisahito turned 18 on Friday, becoming the first male royal family member to reach adulthood in almost four decades. It is a...
View ArticleIn Ukraine, a city grieves for a family killed in a deadly Russia missile attack
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of mourners gathered Friday for funeral services in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed seven people, including a...
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