A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark....
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities in Denmark are working against the clock to stop a slow-moving landslide of contaminated soil from reaching a nearby water source as public officials and the...
View ArticleAs US brings home large numbers of jailed Americans, some families are still...
WASHINGTON (AP) — By any standard, the past 18 months have been remarkable for getting wrongfully detained Americans home. There were major swaps with adversaries like Iran and Russia, including one...
View ArticleKenya's high court rules that deploying nation's police officers to Haiti is...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's high court on Friday blocked the U.N.-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control. Judge Chacha...
View ArticleLawmakers warn that Biden must seek authorization before further strikes on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is raising concerns over a series of recent U.S. military strikes against Yemen Houthi rebels, urging the Biden administration to get congressional...
View ArticleAn unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a...
They have lined up by the thousands across Russia in recent days, standing in the bitter cold for a chance to sign petitions to support an unlikely challenger to President Vladimir Putin. Boris...
View ArticleKey takeaways from UN court's ruling on Israel's war in Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. world court on Friday came down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians. But it...
View ArticleRussia's Putin blames Ukraine for crash of POW's plane and pledges to make...
Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Friday to make public the findings of Moscow's investigation into the crash of a transport plane that he alleged Kyiv’s forces shot down despite having been...
View ArticleUS pauses funding to UN agency for Palestinians after claims staffers were...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern...
View ArticleOther passengers support man who opened emergency exit and walked on plane's...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a man had opened an emergency...
View ArticleTop UN court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court on Friday ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza, but the panel stopped short of...
View ArticleGerman train drivers will end a 6-day strike early and resume talks with the...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's train drivers' union is ending its six-day strike early and is back in talks with the country's national railway operator, German news agency dpa reported Saturday. The strike...
View ArticleA Holocaust survivor in Israel recalls that trauma through the lens of Oct. 7...
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Gad Partok was 10 years old in 1942 when Nazis stormed his street in the coastal Tunisian town of Nabeul. He saw them going door to door, hauling out his neighbors, shooting...
View ArticleUkraine says it has no evidence for Russia's claim that dozens of POWs died...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that Ukrainian forces shot down a military transport plane that Moscow says was carrying...
View ArticleRussia marks 80 years since breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian city of St. Petersburg on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a devastating World War II siege by Nazi forces with a series of memorial events...
View ArticleGreta Thunberg joins hundreds marching in England to protest airport's...
LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined a march in southern England on Saturday to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an airport. Hundreds of local residents and...
View ArticleBiden aide urges Bejing to press Iran over Houthi attacks. China warns US...
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan pressed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during talks in Thailand to use China's influence with Iran to ease tensions in the Middle East. The officials...
View ArticleMexico confirms some Mayan ruin sites are unreachable because of gang...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes. But two...
View ArticleNazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on...
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in...
View ArticleEmbattled UN agency warns its aid operation in Gaza is 'collapsing' over a...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The head of the main U.N. aid agency in the war-battered Gaza Strip warned late Saturday that its work is collapsing after nine countries decided to cut funding over...
View ArticleSouth Korea says North Korea fired several cruise missiles, adding to...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said Sunday that North Korea fired several cruise missiles that flew over waters near a major military shipyard on the country’s eastern coast,...
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