Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil's largest city
SAO PAULO (AP) — Around 1.4 million households in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were without power on Saturday almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America's largest metropolis....
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Palestinian officials say 22 killed in Israeli airstrikes
The Israeli military on Saturday renewed its orders for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes and shelters as troops continue a weeklong offensive against militants. Most of the...
View ArticleHeavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are...
BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon...
View ArticleMacao's former top judge is elected as the Chinese casino hub's first leader...
MACAO (AP) — Macao’s former top judge, Sam Hou Fai, was chosen as the Chinese casino hub’s next leader in a largely ceremonial election on Sunday, setting him up to become the city’s first chief...
View ArticleIndian politician known for his close ties with Bollywood is killed in Mumbai
NEW DELHI (AP) — A senior politician in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, who was also known for his close ties with Bollywood has been shot dead weeks before a key state election. Baba Siddique, 66,...
View ArticleNetanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented,...
View ArticleNorth Korea says front-line units ready to strike South Korea if more drones...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday its front-line army units are ready to launch strikes on South Korea, ramping up pressure on its rival that it said flew drones and dropped leaflets...
View ArticleUkraine’s human rights envoy urges response to alleged killings of Ukrainian...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman urged international organizations Sunday to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region,...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: US says it will send THAAD defense battery to Israel,...
The U.S. is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with US troops to operate it. The Pentagon made the announcement just hours after Iran warned the U.S. to keep its...
View ArticleUN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon are in the crosshairs of Israel’s war on...
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon said Israeli tanks “forcibly entered” one of its positions on Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded it leave the...
View ArticleChina holds large naval and air force exercises around Taiwan as a warning...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China held large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday in what it called a warning against Taiwan independence. China’s Defense Ministry...
View ArticleIsrael says 4 soldiers killed by Hezbollah drone attack while Israeli strike...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in central Israel killed four soldiers and severely wounded seven others Sunday, the military said, in the deadliest strike by...
View ArticleSeoul says North Korea prepares to destroy the northern sides of inter-Korean...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Monday it has detected signs that North Korea is preparing to destroy the northern parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use, as the rivals are embroiled...
View ArticlePoland's leader defends his decision to suspend the right to asylum
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday defended a plan to suspend the right to asylum as human rights and civil society organizations argued that fundamental rights must...
View ArticleHezbollah's drones are a fierce and evasive threat to Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — One of the worst mass casualty strikes on Israel in a year of war came not from dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles nor the repeated barrages of rocket fire launched by Hamas...
View ArticleFrench citizen convicted in Russia of collecting military information and...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday convicted a French citizen of collecting military information and sentenced him to three years in prison. Laurent Vinatier, who was arrested in Moscow in June,...
View ArticleItaly sends the first ship with migrants to Albania as rights groups warn of...
ROME (AP) — Italy is transferring the first group of migrants to Albania, the Interior Ministry said Monday, as part of a contentious plan to process thousands of asylum-seekers outside its borders. A...
View ArticleA bus carrying university students crashes, killing 12 and injuring 33 in...
CAIRO (AP) — A bus carrying university students crashed and overturned on a highway in northeastern Egypt Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 33 others, the health ministry said in a statement....
View ArticlePowerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil's largest city
SAO PAULO (AP) — Around 1.4 million households in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were without power on Saturday almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America's largest metropolis....
View ArticleCanada expels India's top diplomat and alleges wider diplomatic involvement...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada said it has identified India’s top diplomat in the country as a person of interest in the assassination of a Sikh activist there and expelled him and five other diplomats Monday,...
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