Who are the Americans still in Russian custody?
Russia has released an American teacher imprisoned over what his family said was prescribed medical marijuana, but several other Americans remain in Russian custody. Teacher Marc Fogel was released in...
View Article110,000 people are stranded in eastern Congo as rebels are accused of forced...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels controlling cities in eastern Congo have forcibly closed settlement camps, leading to the displacement of more than 110,000 people in recent days, the U.N. and...
View ArticleIsrael’s fatal shooting of a pregnant Palestinian woman puts the focus on...
KAFR AL-LABAD, West Bank (AP) — The call came in the middle of the night, Mohammed Shula said. His daughter-in-law, eight months pregnant with her first child, was whispering. There was panic in her...
View ArticleUS aid freeze sets back fight against human trafficking in Cambodia
BANGKOK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign assistance has dealt a blow to organizations fighting human trafficking and forced labor in Cambodia, where tens of thousands of people are...
View ArticleUS aid freeze paralyzes NGOs working to help millions of internally displaced...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia's capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under the baking sun not sure if they can have access...
View ArticleAustrian far-right leader's efforts to form a new government collapse
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl's efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after...
View ArticleThings to know about Russia's release of American Marc Fogel and the impact...
The U.S. and Russia agreed to a prisoner swap involving Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who the Biden administration had deemed wrongfully detained by Russia, in a diplomatic move that the White...
View ArticleIn Ecuador's highlands, an Indigenous community faces choice between 2...
COCHAPAMBA, Ecuador (AP) — The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in this remote Indigenous...
View ArticleAt least 10 hospitalized in fire at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival costume factory
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire Wednesday at a Rio de Janeiro factory that produces costumes for the city's iconic Carnival left 10 people hospitalized, Rio’s state health department said, casting a...
View ArticleIsrael threatens 'all hell will break loose' on Hamas in latest Gaza...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister on Wednesday vowed that “all hell will break loose” on Hamas if it fails to free hostages this weekend as planned, stepping up threats against the militant...
View ArticleCongolese church leaders meet Rwanda-backed rebels in the east in latest push...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw the...
View ArticleTrump upends US policy on Ukraine and says he and Putin have agreed to begin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had agreed to begin negotiations on ending the...
View ArticleA joke petition seeks to help Denmark buy California as Trump eyes Greenland
Is California for sale? A lighthearted petition to buy the state of California for Denmark prompted more than 200,000 signatures by Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s talk about taking...
View ArticleSeoul says North Korea is destroying facility that hosted reunions of...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government said...
View ArticleCanada’s new fentanyl czar says goal is to totally stop the drug from...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The man appointed by the Canadian government to help stop fentanyl from entering the United States said his goal is to totally eliminate the drug crossing the...
View ArticleUS aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship near Egypt, but no injuries...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision at sea with a merchant vessel near Port Said, Egypt, the Navy said Thursday. The collision occurred late...
View Article24 people have died in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A head-on collision between a bus and a truck killed 24 people in Zimbabwe on Thursday, police said. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the accident happened near Beitbridge,...
View ArticleFrance's Macron urges Syria's interim government to join a US-led coalition...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron urged Syria's interim government to cooperate with a U.S.-led coalition fighting against extremist groups in that region as he hosted a conference...
View ArticleRussian crypto expert Alexander Vinnik returns to Moscow in Russia-US...
MOSCOW (AP) — Alexander Vinnik, a Russian cryptocurrency expert who faced Bitcoin fraud charges in the United States, returned to Russia on Thursday after being freed in a swap that saw Moscow release...
View ArticleMan from uncontacted Indigenous tribe emerges in Amazon, and villagers...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local...
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