Illness delays trial of men charged with cutting down Britain's scenic...
LONDON (AP) — The trial of two men charged with cutting down the majestic Sycamore Gap tree last year along Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was postponed until January because one defendant was...
View ArticleLandslides and flash floods hit Indonesia’s Java island, leaving 10 dead and...
SUKABUMI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered 10 bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize winner urges Putin to understand the destructiveness of...
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, called on Russian President...
View ArticleZelenskyy open to Western troops providing security for end to war in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he's open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israeli strikes hit Gaza and also target suspected...
Israeli strikes killed at least six people in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials said Monday, while also hitting suspected chemical and long-range weapons sites in Syria to keep...
View ArticleIsraeli warplanes pound Syria as troops reportedly advance deeper into the...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday. Israel denied its forces...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Netanyahu testifies in his corruption trial as warplanes...
Israeli warplanes pounded military sites in Syria after Israeli troops seized a border buffer zone following the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s rule. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile...
View ArticleUS defense secretary in Japan to support alliance as Osprey aircraft safety...
TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with officials in Japan on Tuesday to reaffirm the importance of their alliance and Washington's commitment to regional security as threats rise...
View ArticleFrance flies out 2 Mirage fighter jets from Chad to signal beginning of...
PARIS (AP) — France flew out the two Mirage fighter jets it had stationed in Chad on Tuesday, signaling the beginning of the withdrawal of its military forces from the former French colony in Central...
View ArticleSerbia's president says he won't flee his country like Syria's Assad did...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's president accused Tuesday foreign intelligence services of trying to unseat him in the wake of spreading protests in the Balkan state and that he wouldn't flee the...
View ArticleAt least 8 killed in building collapse in Cairo
CAIRO (AP) — An apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in Egypt’s capital, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The Health Ministry said in a statement that the collapse of the six-story...
View ArticlePolice in Kenya hurl tear gas at protesters angry about gender-based violence
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya’s capital hurled tear gas canisters Tuesday at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide, or the killing of women, and arrested an...
View ArticleJournalists' rights group says 104 media workers killed this year. Gaza...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists said Tuesday that 104 journalists and media workers have been killed so far in 2024, with more than half of them perishing during the...
View ArticleNegotiations over the war in Ukraine could start 'in the winter,' Poland's...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that negotiations over the war in neighboring Ukraine could start “in the winter,” as his country prepares to take over the...
View ArticleRussian lawmakers advance a bill removing the terrorist designation for the...
MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of the Russian parliament gave initial approval Tuesday to a long-discussed bill that would set the stage for Moscow to remove the designation of the Taliban in...
View ArticleTaiwan demands that China end its military activity in nearby waters
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan demanded Wednesday that China end its ongoing military activity in nearby waters, which it said is unilaterally undermining peace and stability and disrupting...
View ArticleBrazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has...
View ArticleIsraeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 29, Palestinian medics say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday, hitting a home where displaced people were sheltering in the isolated north and a built-up refugee...
View ArticleSupporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party hold protest march as tensions...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of members of youth and student bodies belonging to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday held a road march procession from Bangladesh’s capital toward its...
View ArticleRomania's pro-Western parties agree to form a majority government after...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s pro-European parties agreed Wednesday to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on opposite sides and shutting out far-right...
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