Ecuador expands power cuts to 14 hours a day due to drought
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has announced an increase in daily power cuts as the severe drought impacting the nation keeps lowering water levels for the key hydroelectric plants, the source of more...
View ArticleCalls for reparations for Britain's slave trade are rooted in dark legacy
LONDON (AP) — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies. Britain...
View ArticleBrazil reaches a $23 billion settlement with mining firms over a 2015...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the country's...
View ArticleAn Israeli airstrike killed journalists covering the war in Lebanon as they...
BEIRUT (AP) — An early morning Israeli airstrike killed three journalists as they slept at a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon on Friday, one of the deadliest attacks on the media since hostilities...
View ArticleUkraine's Zelenskyy says North Korean troops are poised to join the war,...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Friday. Western...
View ArticleUN official calls for more attention to Sudan’s 'forgotten' war amid fresh...
CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official on Friday called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war pushed the African country...
View ArticleWar affects over 600 million women and girls, UN says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war, a 50% increase from a decade ago, and they fear the world has forgotten them amid an escalating backlash against...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza leave dozens dead
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli airstrike hit guesthouses where journalists were staying in southeast Lebanon, killing three media staffers from two different news agencies...
View ArticleGeorgia votes in an election that could take it toward the EU or into...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgians headed to the polls Saturday in a ballot many citizens see as a make-or-break vote on the opportunity to join the European Union. The pre-election campaign in the...
View ArticleAt least 126 dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides in Philippines
TALISAY, Philippines (AP) — The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said Saturday...
View ArticleThe Menendez brothers built a green space in prison. It’s modeled on this...
COPENHAGEN (AP) — Nearly 30 years after they killed their parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez launched a beautification project in the California prison where they're serving life sentences. Their project...
View ArticleIsrael's first open attack on Iran targets missile sites and apparently...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel attacked military targets in Iran with pre-dawn airstrikes Saturday in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired on Israel earlier...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Trump, Harris address Israeli airstrikes on Iran amid US...
Israel unleashed a predawn airstrikes against military sites in Iran on Saturday, saying it targeted facilities used to make the missiles fired at Israel earlier this month along with surface-to-air...
View ArticleJapan's ruling party braces for a blow to its comfortable majority in the...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections amid public rage...
View ArticleUruguay election: Voters in one of Latin America's strongest democracies pick...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The small South American nation of Uruguay is holding a remarkably civilized general election on Sunday that pits an incumbent conservative coalition against a moderate...
View ArticleBulgarians vote with little hope of breaking a political deadlock
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians were voting Sunday in a seventh general election in just over three years with little hope that a stable government will be formed to stop the country’s further slide...
View ArticlePalestinian officials say Israeli strikes have killed 22 people in northern Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 22 people, Palestinian medical officials said. The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said that 11 women...
View ArticleMore than 120 killed in paramilitary rampage in east-central Sudan, UN and a...
CAIRO (AP) — Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the...
View ArticleRussian forces thwart attempted cross-border assault from Ukraine, official says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported Sunday, months after Kyiv staged a bold assault...
View ArticleBolivia's former President Evo Morales claims his car was shot at in...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Former President Evo Morales of Bolivia claimed he survived an assassination attempt on Sunday after unidentified men opened fire on his car. He was not injured in the alleged...
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