UN agency chiefs say Gaza needs more aid to arrive faster, warning of famine...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the...
View ArticleIran announces strikes in northern Iraq and Syria as regional tensions escalate
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iran announced late Monday that it had launched strikes against a “spy headquarters and the gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” shortly after missiles hit an upscale area...
View ArticleNorth Korea scraps agencies managing relations with South as Kim Jong Un...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has abolished key government organizations tasked with managing relations with South Korea, state media said Tuesday, as authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un said he...
View ArticleSwitzerland hosts President Zelenskyy and offers to host a peace summit for...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss President Viola Amherd said Monday, during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Bern, that her country has offered to organize a peace summit that aims...
View ArticleWith 'God's-eye view,' secretive surveillance flights keep close watch on...
ABOARD A FRENCH AIR FORCE AWACS (AP) — Off in the distance, Ukraine, fighting for its survival. Seen from up here, in the cockpit of a French air force surveillance plane flying over neighboring...
View ArticleEvacuation underway for stranded tourists after multiple avalanches trap...
BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers evacuated tourists on Tuesday from a remote skiing area in northwestern China where dozens of avalanches triggered by heavy snow have trapped more than 1,000 people for a week,...
View ArticleEight dead and an estimated 100 people missing after the latest Nigeria boat...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Eight passengers were confirmed dead and an estimated 100 were missing after their overloaded boat capsized in north-central Nigeria, the emergency services said Tuesday. It is...
View ArticleKenya doomsday cult pastor and others will face charges of murder, cruelty...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, cruelty, child torture and other crimes in the deaths of 429 people believed...
View ArticleRussia hosts North Korea's top diplomat for talks on ties amid concerns over...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday hosted North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui for talks on expanding ties between the countries amid...
View ArticleUK leader Rishi Sunak dealt a blow by Conservative rebellion over his Rwanda...
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a substantial rebellion by Conservative Party lawmakers on Tuesday over his stalled plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda, in a...
View ArticlePalestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza while deal emerges to deliver...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more than 100 days...
View ArticleChaotic wave of attacks, reprisals in Middle East fuel worries of a broader...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A barrage of U.S., coalition and militant attacks in the Middle East over the last five days are compounding U.S. fears that Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza could expand, as massive...
View ArticleFrance's Macron announces missiles and bombs for Ukraine, suggests he could...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans Tuesday to deliver more long-range cruise missiles as well as bombs to Ukraine and suggested that he'd find ways to work with Donald Trump...
View ArticleHundreds protest and clash with police in a Russian region after an activist...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in the Russian region of Bashkortostan on Wednesday in a rare display of public outrage after a court convicted a local activist and...
View ArticleGunmen abduct volunteer searcher looking for her disappeared brother, kill...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen burst into a home in central Mexico and abducted one of the volunteer searchers looking for the country's 114,000 disappeared and killed her husband and son, authorities said...
View ArticleRussian missiles hit Ukrainian apartment buildings in latest deadly strikes...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired two missiles at Kharkiv during the night, hitting apartment buildings and a medical center and injuring 17 people in the city in northeastern Ukraine, officials said...
View ArticleUK lawmakers pass a bill to send migrants to Rwanda. But hurdles remain...
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak quelled a Conservative Party rebellion and got his stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda through the House of Commons on...
View ArticleLive updates | US-owned ship attacked near Yemen, medicine for Israeli...
Yemen's Houthi rebels launched a bomb-carrying drone into a U.S.-owned ship on Wednesday, officials said, the second such attack in recent days targeting vessels directly linked to America after...
View ArticleKing Charles III will have a prostate operation next week while Kate recovers...
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III and the Princess of Wales are both dealing with medical issues that will force them to delay previously planned public engagements over the coming weeks. Charles will...
View ArticleProsecutor probing TV studio attack in Ecuador is shot dead in Guayaquil
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A prosecutor investigating a dramatic attack on the set of a public television channel last week was shot to death Wednesday in Guayaquil, the most dangerous city in Ecuador....
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