Middle East latest: Israel releases over 300 Palestinian prisoners after...
Israel and Hamas completed their sixth exchange of hostages and prisoners on Saturday after their ceasefire survived its latest crisis. The Palestinian militant group was going to delay the exchange...
View ArticleIsrael and Hamas complete their latest exchange as ceasefire's first phase...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Hamas completed the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners on Saturday with just over two weeks remaining in their fragile Gaza ceasefire's...
View ArticleRwanda-backed rebels advance and Congolese forces retreat from eastern...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed...
View ArticleA 23-year-old man stabbed 6 people in Austria killing 1 in what police...
VIENNA (AP) — A 23-year-old man stabbed six passersby in southern Austria on Saturday in what police said was a random attack that left a 14-year-old dead and five others injured. The suspect was...
View ArticleThe collapse of a gold mine has killed 42 people and injured several others...
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kéniéba district where the accident...
View ArticleTurkish opposition party delegation meets with Kurdish leader in Iraq as part...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A Turkish opposition party delegation arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region Sunday against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist...
View ArticleSuspect in fatal stabbing in Austria had an 'Islamic terror motive,'...
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian authorities said Sunday the stabbing of six people that left a 14-year-old boy dead was carried out by a man with possible connections to the Islamic State group who appeared to...
View ArticleRwanda-backed rebels occupy a 2nd major city in Congo's mineral-rich east
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the government said Sunday, as M23 rebels confirmed they were in the city to restore order...
View ArticleIsrael's Netanyahu signals he's moving ahead with Trump's idea to transfer...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled that he was moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza,...
View ArticleWoman killed as Israeli forces fire on returnees to southern Lebanon ahead of...
BEIRUT (AP) — A woman was killed and several other people wounded Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on a group of residents attempting to return to the village of Houla in southern Lebanon, the...
View ArticleUkraine's President Zelenskyy travels to United Arab Emirates as momentum...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow's war on the...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israelis and Palestinians mark 500 days of war in Gaza...
Israelis have marked 500 days of war in Gaza with protests demanding further progress on a ceasefire so all remaining hostages can be returned. People demonstrated in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Monday...
View ArticleEuropean leaders want a say in talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine. The US...
PARIS (AP) — European leaders insisted Monday they must have a say in international talks to end the war in Ukraine despite the clear message from both Washington and Moscow that there was no role for...
View ArticleRio de Janeiro's hottest day in at least a decade sends residents to the beach
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro recorded its hottest day in at least a decade when temperatures reached 44 degrees Celsius (111 F) on Monday as residents flocked to the ocean to try to cool off....
View ArticleTop Russian and American officials will hold talks on ending the Ukraine war...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Senior American and Russian officials, including the countries’ top diplomats, will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine,...
View ArticleBorder town's residents rebuild in south Lebanon as Hezbollah leader calls...
KHIAM, Lebanon (AP) — Sabah Abdullah comes to her hometown in Lebanon every morning and sits next to her destroyed home. She is waiting for experts from Hezbollah's construction arm to compensate her...
View ArticleRwanda-backed M23 rebels tighten their grip on second major city in eastern...
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels tightened their grip on Bukavu on Monday, a day after seizing the second major city in eastern Congo whose residents appeared resigned to their fate under the...
View ArticleThe first openly gay Muslim imam is killed in South Africa, prompting claims...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A man regarded as the first openly gay Muslim imam has been fatally shot while sitting in a car in South Africa in what many are calling an assassination because of his...
View ArticleMexico awaits new response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Monday it's awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a...
View ArticleNorth Korea slams US and Asian rivals for pursuing 'absurd' plans to...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday criticized the United States and Asian neighbors for pursuing the “absurd” goal of denuclearizing the North and said it will push to expand its nuclear...
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