Scholz sets Germany on course for an early election as he requests a...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz formally set Germany on course for an early election Wednesday by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week. Five weeks after his three-party governing...
View ArticleMacron seeks political deal to name a new prime minister and restore France's...
PARIS (AP) — French president Emmanuel Macron is seeking a political deal that would allow him to both name a new prime minister and “guarantee the stability of the country,” following the resignation...
View ArticleAn explosion in the Afghan capital kills the Taliban refugee minister
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister and two others, officials said, in the most brazen attack on a member of the Taliban inner...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israeli strike on home in northern Gaza kills 19 people,...
An Israeli strike on a home sheltering displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 19 people, Palestinian medical officials said Wednesday, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
View Article2 Ukrainian women are pulled alive from rubble hours after Russian missile...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Rescue crews pulled two women from rubble several hours after a Russian missile struck a medical clinic in southern Ukraine, killing nine people and wounding 22 others,...
View ArticleRussian forces edge closer to a key eastern Ukraine city in 'intense'...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting around the key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is “extremely intense” after a monthslong Russian push, Ukraine’s top military commander said, with analysts estimating...
View ArticleHong Kong court convicts 7 men, including ex-lawmaker, of rioting during 2019...
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong judge on Thursday convicted seven people, including a pro-democracy former lawmaker, of rioting during mob violence at a subway station at the height of the city’s...
View ArticleSouth Korea's Yoon defends martial law as an act of governance and vows to...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied rebellion charges, vowing Thursday to “fight to the end” in response...
View ArticleAt least 110 people have died in 7 weeks of post-election protests in...
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — More than 100 people including children have been killed by security forces in post-election protests in Mozambique that have lasted nearly two months, rights and civil...
View ArticleUN drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but...
BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said...
View ArticleFresh fin whale meat is auctioned for the first time in decades in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilogram (2.2 lbs) at auction Thursday, as officials try to...
View ArticleAmerican who says he crossed into Syria by foot is free after 7 months in...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American who turned up in Syria on Thursday says he was detained after crossing into the country by foot on a Christian pilgrimage seven months ago. Travis Timmerman appears...
View ArticleRescue group saves 11-year-old girl floating alone in the Mediterranean for...
MILAN (AP) — An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant...
View ArticleThousands attend the funeral of a Taliban minister killed by an Islamic State...
GARDA SERAI, Afghanistan (AP) — Thousands of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a Taliban minister killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the day before that was claimed...
View ArticleConcern over Syria's chemical weapons stockpile triggers emergency meeting of...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog opened an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic...
View ArticleChina's military is staying silent on its recent activity around Taiwan
BEIJING (AP) — China's military kept silent Friday on its large deployment of naval and coast guard ships off Taiwan this week, with its top spokesperson quoting an ancient strategist instead....
View ArticleSuspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew barred from UK
LONDON (AP) — A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the U.K. because of concerns he poses a threat to national security. A British immigration tribunal...
View ArticleRussia targets Ukrainian infrastructure with a massive attack by cruise...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a massive aerial attack against Ukraine on Friday, firing 93 cruise and ballistic missiles and almost 200 drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said,...
View ArticleThe year in review: Influential people who died in 2024
It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson 's “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Blinken urges Mideast nations to support a peaceful...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria. He is meeting on Friday with Turkey's foreign...
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