Russia grinds deeper into Ukraine after 1,000 days of grueling war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, the conventional wisdom was that the capital, Kyiv, would soon fall and the rest of the country wouldn’t last long against...
View ArticleKnife attack at a vocational school in eastern China leaves 8 dead and 17...
BEIJING (AP) — A stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi on Saturday left eight people dead and 17 others injured, local police said. The attack took place at the...
View ArticleIsraeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza as arrests are made over flares fired at...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight killed 12 people, Palestinian medical officials said Sunday. Israeli police meanwhile arrested three suspects after flares were...
View ArticleLatest typhoon lashes the Philippines, causing tidal surges and displacing...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern...
View ArticleRussia launches one of the fiercest missile and drone attacks at Ukraine's...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Sunday launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, described by officials as the largest over the past months, targeting energy infrastructure and killing...
View ArticleSenegal votes in election that will decide if president can carry out the...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Polls opened in Senegal on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is set to determine if the country’s newly elected president can carry out ambitious reforms. More than 7...
View ArticlePakistan's top cleric says use of VPNs is against Islamic laws as the...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's top body of clerics has declared the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, against Islamic laws, officials said Monday, as the Ministry of Interior sought a ban on the...
View ArticleSri Lanka's Marxist-leaning president appoints Cabinet after election win
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president swore in a 22-member Cabinet on Monday after his party secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in last week’s election. The...
View ArticleUS and Philippines sign a pact to secure shared military intelligence and...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines signed an agreement on Monday to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the...
View ArticleNew Zealand's founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty between the British Crown and Māori chiefs has triggered political turmoil and a march by thousands of...
View ArticleA Russian ballistic missile with cluster munitions kills 11 people and...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian ballistic missile with cluster munitions struck a residential area of a northern Ukraine city, killing 11 people including two children and injuring 84 others, officials...
View ArticleTyphoon Man-yi leaves 7 dead in landslide in Philippines and worsens crisis...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Man-yi left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed scores of houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern...
View ArticleAt climate summit in Baku, negotiators are urged to get down to business as...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a deal that could see developing countries get more money to spend on clean energy and...
View ArticleBrazil hosts a G20 summit overshadowed by wars and Trump's return, aiming for...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With Brazil preparing to host the Group of 20 summit, it appears unlikely the leading rich and developing nations will sign on to a meaningful declaration regarding geopolitics:...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Children and parents among 8 killed in Israeli strikes in...
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed eight people, including two children aged 7 and 9 and their parents, Palestinian officials said Monday. A third child, 10 years old, was wounded in an...
View ArticleUK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin...
LONDON (AP) — With banners, bullhorns, toy tractors and an angry message, British farmers are descending on Parliament on Tuesday to protest a hike in inheritance tax that they say will deal a “hammer...
View ArticleConcerns grow for imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi's...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi underwent a complex surgery in Iran that saw part of a bone in her right leg removed over cancer fears but was...
View ArticleTens of thousands crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Māori...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade...
View Article45 pro-democracy activists get 4 to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong's biggest...
HONG KONG (AP) — Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a...
View ArticleNumerous children injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Numerous children were injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central China’s Hunan province on Tuesday, reports said. Hours after the incident, the casualty count...
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