Canada's PM hopeful lays out plan to fight Trump's tariff threats 'where it...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Chrystia Freeland, the former finance minister who is running to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister, said Monday Canada needs to release a...
View ArticleNorthern Gaza is shattered. The spirit of returning Palestinians is not
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — They walked for hours loaded with whatever clothes, food and blankets they could carry. Many smiled, some hugged loved ones they hadn’t seen for months. Hundreds of...
View ArticleWhat is happening in eastern Congo, where rebels claim they captured a key city?
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claimed on Monday they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains...
View ArticleAt Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the...
View ArticleCDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John...
View ArticlePalestinians celebrate their return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of...
View Article2 soldiers, 5 militants killed in southwest Pakistan during attack on...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A group of militants attacked a security post in southwest Pakistan, triggering an intense shootout in which two soldiers and five insurgents were killed, military and local...
View Article'No safe place to go to from Goma' for millions as humanitarian crisis looms...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Bodies are lying on the streets. Medical staff in overwhelmed hospitals are treating hundreds of wounded civilians against the backdrop of gunfire and explosions. Electricity,...
View ArticleAmazon's advocates fear Trump's return means little US help to protect...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River. Pink...
View ArticleSerbia's prime minister resigns as anti-corruption protests sparked by deadly...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist prime minister, Milos Vucevic, resigned Tuesday in an attempt to calm political tensions stoked by weeks of massive anti-corruption protests that started...
View ArticleThe discovery of brutal mass graves in Syria reveals Assad's legacy of horror
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the Bashar Assad government were located Tuesday by Syrian civil defense workers in two separate basements in rural Damascus. The...
View ArticleIsrael's prime minister says Trump has invited him to the White House on Feb. 4
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Feb. 4 as the first foreign leader to visit in Trump's second term,...
View ArticleColombian customs official pleads guilty in money laundering case tied to DEA...
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — A Colombian customs worker admitted his role Tuesday in taking bribes and funneling more than $1 million in drug proceeds in a case that threatened to expose dirty dealings...
View ArticleDozens are injured in a stampede at India's massive Hindu festival
NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the country's northern Prayagraj city, setting off a stampede early Wednesday that...
View ArticleCongo tries to slow the assault of Rwanda-backed rebels amid reports of dead...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma after entering eastern Congo's largest city, as U.N....
View ArticleThe Year of the Snake is underway with Lunar New Year festivities around the...
BEIJING (AP) — Firecrackers popped, incense was offered at temples and dancers and drummers paraded Wednesday in Asia and farther afield as millions around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year....
View ArticleInternational Criminal Court has no trial scheduled as Trump piles on pressure
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — For a few hours last week, the International Criminal Court looked poised to take a Libyan warlord into custody. Instead, member state Italy sent the head of a notorious...
View ArticleCongolese civilians caught in a growing rebellion face a terrible choice
GISENYI, Rwanda (AP) — Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo's escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo's interior and seek the protection of a weak army in...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israel kills 2 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...
Israel killed two Palestinians in the northern West Bank overnight and into Wednesday, the occupied territory's Heath Ministry said, as the Israeli military focuses on a major crackdown there during...
View ArticleOntario leader calls for snap election to fight Trump’s threatened tariffs
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The leader of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, on Wednesday triggered a snap election, saying he needs a strong four-year mandate to fight the tariffs...
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