Over 6,000 people in Haiti leave their homes after gang attack killed dozens
SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) — Nearly 6,300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed at least 70 people, according to the U.N.’s...
View ArticleTunisia's Kais Saied poised to win second term after cracking down on opposition
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s incumbent president announced late Sunday that he would he would wait for official results before declaring victory while acknowledge exit polls showing him winning by...
View ArticleSao Paulo mayor's race heads to a runoff without a controversial outsider in...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Incumbent Ricardo Nunes and leftist lawmaker Guilherme Boulos will face each other in a runoff to decide the next mayor of Sao Paulo, following a first round of voting Sunday in...
View ArticleIsrael intensifies bombardment of Gaza and southern Lebanon ahead of Oct. 7...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of airstrikes hit Beirut suburbs late Sunday as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon in a widening war with Iran-allied...
View ArticleAn explosion outside the Karachi, Pakistan, airport kills 2 workers from...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A massive blast outside Karachi Airport in Pakistan on Sunday killed two workers from China and injured at least eight, officials from both countries said. Police and the...
View ArticleKenya’s deputy president defends himself before impeachment
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s deputy president, facing an impeachment motion in which he's accused of supporting anti-government protests in June and of being involved in corruption and other...
View ArticleThousands survived a brutal gang attack in Haiti that killed 70. Now they...
PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP) — Under the cover of night, dozens of gang members crept toward the small town of Pont-Sondé in central Haiti armed with knives and assault rifles as families slept. The gang...
View ArticleRussian court sentences a 72-year-old American to nearly 7 years in prison...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old American in a closed trial to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. Prosecutors said Stephen...
View ArticleAlbania's opposition protests and demands a caretaker Cabinet
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Opposition supporters in Albania protested again Monday, demanding that the government be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet before next year’s parliamentary election....
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Palestinian militants in Gaza fire rockets into Israel as...
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as mourners marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack, without disrupting a nearby ceremony. The Israeli military said...
View ArticleTunisia's Kais Saied wins landslide reelection, entrenching his power in Arab...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — President Kais Saied won a landslide victory in Tunisia's election Monday, keeping his grip on power after a first term in which opponents were imprisoned and the country's...
View ArticleWar rages on multiple fronts as Israel marks a year since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack
RE'IM, Israel (AP) — Israelis held somber ceremonies Monday to mark a year since the deadliest attack in the country’s history, a Hamas-led raid that shattered its sense of security and has since...
View ArticleVigils, protests around the world commemorate the anniversary of Hamas attack...
NEW YORK (AP) — Commemorations and protests unfolded across the world on Monday to mark the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, an assault that sparked a war that has devastated the...
View ArticleNo evidence of major fuel spill on Samoan reef where New Zealand navy ship sank
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Divers and marine experts found no evidence of a major fuel spill on a Samoan reef Tuesday after a New Zealand navy ship ran aground and sank, Samoa's deputy prime...
View ArticleThe mayor of a state capital in Mexico is killed less than 1 week after he...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives on Monday buried the mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico who was killed just one week after he took office. Photos of the crime scene shared on social media showed...
View ArticleMI5 spy chief says Russia and Iran are behind a 'staggering' rise in deadly...
LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on U.K. soil by Russia and Iran, as the two states recruit criminals to “do their dirty...
View ArticleHungary’s Orbán interrupted by activist during EU presidency news conference
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An activist and municipal councilor for a Hungarian opposition party disrupted a news conference in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán...
View ArticleMexico's president lays out a plan to combat cartel violence. But it looks...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s new president laid out a plan Tuesday to combat drug cartel violence, but analysts say it appears to be largely a continuation of previous policy. President Claudia...
View ArticleFrance’s minority government survives a no-confidence vote, 2 weeks after...
PARIS (AP) — France’s minority government survived a no-confidence vote on Tuesday, two weeks after taking office, getting over the first hurdle placed by left-wing lawmakers to bring down new...
View ArticlePioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is...
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