Police say gunmen open fire on vehicles in Pakistan's restive northwest,...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles carrying Shiite Muslim civilians in restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 30 others in one...
View ArticleAt UN climate talks, nations blast draft of vague deal on climate cash for...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Countries of the world took turns rejecting a new but vague draft text released early Thursday which attempts to form the spine of any deal reached at United Nations climate...
View ArticleDeath toll in Gaza from Israel-Hamas war passes 44,000, Palestinian officials...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the 13-month-old war between Israel and Hamas has surpassed 44,000, local health officials said Thursday. The Gaza Health...
View ArticleNorth Korean leader says past diplomacy only confirmed US hostility
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility toward his country and described his...
View ArticleTrudeau to cut sales tax and send checks to millions of Canadians as election...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 's government announced plans Thursday to temporarily lift the federal sales tax off a number of items and send checks to millions of...
View ArticleBrazilian police indict Bolsonaro for alleged attempted coup, threatening his...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Police indicted Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly attempting a coup to keep the right-wing leader in office after his defeat in the 2022 election....
View ArticleIndigenous leaders travel to UK from Peru to draw attention to oil damage and...
LONDON (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks' support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their...
View ArticleSecond Australian teen dies in tainted alcohol case in Laos that has killed 6...
VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll...
View ArticleThe Bahamas will refinance part of its debt to protect its famous turquoise...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Bahamas announced Friday that it will refinance $300 million of its external debt to free up more than $120 million for marine conservation projects and climate change...
View ArticleSouth Korea says Russia supplied air defense missiles to North Korea in...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia has supplied air defense missile systems to North Korea in exchange for sending its troops to support Russia's war efforts against Ukraine, a top South Korean official...
View ArticleMore aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, UN says
GENEVA (AP) — More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year, the United Nations reported Friday. Bloodshed...
View ArticlePakistani city mourns 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed in a gun...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Protesters in Pakistan's restive northwest chanted anti-government slogans Friday as funeral prayers were held for 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen a...
View ArticleUkraine's parliament cancels session after Russia fired a new missile
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's parliament canceled a session on Friday as security was tightened after Russia deployed a new ballistic missile that threatens to escalate the nearly three-year war....
View ArticleProminent figure from Canada's trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — One of the most prominent figures from Canada's trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 has been found guilty on five counts including mischief and disobeying a...
View ArticleUN expert: Myanmar's desperate military ramps up attacks including...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups, carrying out beheadings, gang rapes and torture, with women, children...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israeli strikes kill a hospital director in Lebanon and...
Israeli airstrikes killed a hospital director at his home in northeastern Lebanon and six others, while at least five paramedics were killed by Israeli strikes in the country's south on Friday,...
View ArticleKey UN committee adopts resolution paving the way for a first-ever treaty on...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. General Assembly committee adopted a resolution late Friday paving the way for negotiations on a first-ever treaty on preventing and punishing crimes against humanity...
View ArticleFighting between armed sectarian groups in restive northwestern Pakistan...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Fighting between armed Sunni and Shiite groups in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 33 people and injured 25 others, a senior police officer from the region said...
View ArticleLaos government pledges justice in mass alcohol poisoning case that has...
VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, promising it would bring perpetrators to justice. Two...
View ArticleAs fast fashion's waste pollutes Africa's environment, designers in Ghana are...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find...
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