A new year dawns on a Middle East torn by conflict and change
DAMASCUS (AP) — In Damascus, the streets were buzzing with excitement Tuesday as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Dozens of patients and wounded evacuated from Gaza for...
Dozens of patients and the wounded have been evacuated for treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says Israel's attacks on and around hospitals have pushed health care...
View ArticleThe world begins welcoming 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — From Sydney to Vladivostok to Mumbai, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. Auckland became the...
View ArticleThe year in review: Influential people who died in 2024
It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter ’s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by...
View ArticleProtesters in Syria demand justice for disappeared activists and...
DOUMA, Syria (AP) — Protesters in Syria held a sit-in Wednesday demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose fate remains one of the most haunting mysteries of...
View ArticleIsraeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza, including children, as war grinds into the...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said Wednesday, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the...
View ArticlePower is restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a major blackout
BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Power was restored to nearly all electrical customers across Puerto Rico on Wednesday after a sweeping blackout plunged the U.S. territory into darkness on New Year’s Eve....
View ArticleBangladesh court again rejects bail for Hindu leader who led rallies
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in southeastern Bangladesh on Thursday rejected a plea for bail by a jailed Hindu leader who led large rallies in the Muslim-majority country demanding better security...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 26, including 3...
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 people across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including a strike in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone that killed three children and two high-ranking police...
View ArticleImpeached South Korean president issues defiant message as he faces possible...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a message to conservative supporters rallying outside his Seoul residence, vowed to “fight to the end” against “anti-state...
View ArticleSouth Korea's impeached president defies warrant after hourslong standoff
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff on Friday during which he defied their attempt to...
View ArticleTrump's strength and unpredictability can help end the war in Ukraine,...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable,” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to...
View ArticleInvestigators meet in Brazil to extract data from black box of crashed...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Several of Brazilian air force investigators are working with colleagues from three other nations to analyze data from the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed in Kazakhstan on Dec....
View ArticleMontenegro to tackle gun control after mass killing left 12 dead
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A top-level meeting in Montenegro on Friday looked for ways to curb illegal weapons after a gunman fatally shot 12 people in a second such tragedy in less than three years...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Germany and France seek a 'new beginning' with Syria
The top diplomats from Germany and France were in Syria on Friday to send what the German minister called a clear signal that Europe and Syria can have a “political new beginning" after Islamist...
View ArticleThe last high-profile trip to India by the Biden administration will focus on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to India for a visit focusing on cooperation on strategic technology, including in defense, space and artificial intelligence. The...
View ArticleTaiwan says China is redoubling efforts to undermine democracy with...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan ’s government says China is redoubling efforts to undermine confidence in the self-governing island’s democracy and close ties with the United States through the spread of...
View ArticleJapanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died
TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an...
View ArticleMalaysia turns away 2 boats with nearly 300 Rohingya refugees after dozens...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities said Saturday that they have turned away two boats carrying nearly 300 people believed to be Muslim Rohingya refugees who were found to have entered...
View ArticleBlast in southwestern Pakistan kills 1 person and wounds 35
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A blast from an improvised explosive device killed one person and wounded 35 others on Saturday in Pakistan's southwestern city of Turbat, a police official said. Footage from...
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