Boat fleeing rebel offensive capsizes in Congo, killing 22
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A boat carrying people fleeing the ongoing rebel advance in eastern Congo has capsized, killing 22 people, authorities said Thursday. The boat was carrying people from Vitshumbi...
View ArticleGuterres to propose UN assumes funding for mission struggling to fight gangs...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said he would request that the United Nations assumes funding for the structural and logistical expenses of a multinational force...
View ArticleFacing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras join Panama as stopovers...
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica's capital...
View ArticleIsrael grieves as Hamas turns over the remains of the young Bibas brothers
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ariel and Kfir Bibas — two of the youngest hostages held in Gaza — became a symbol for Israelis of the brutality of Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The return of their bodies Thursday...
View ArticleBodies released by Hamas include some of the oldest and youngest hostages
JERUSALEM (AP) — The bodies of some of the oldest and youngest hostages taken to Gaza at the start of the Israel-Hamas war were released Thursday, bringing the total closer to the 33 supposed to be...
View ArticleAn encroaching desert threatens to swallow homes and history
CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of...
View ArticleA news conference between Zelenskyy and Trump’s Ukraine envoy is canceled as...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled Thursday as...
View ArticleUK foreign secretary questions Russia's 'appetite' for peace and challenges...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia's top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in...
View ArticleUkrainians rally around their president after Trump seeks to denigrate him
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Days before the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainians are as somber and tense as they were right before Moscow launched the war. Only now, they aren’t just...
View ArticleEuropean troops, US support are part of an emerging plan for Ukraine. But it...
LONDON (AP) — As the U.S. and Russia push ahead – so far without Ukraine at the table – on talks to end the war, political and military leaders in Europe are fleshing out details of a plan for...
View ArticleChina issued 'disconcerting' warning of live-fire exercises to planes flying...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Airliners were over the Tasman Sea crossing between Australia and New Zealand when the Chinese navy warned they were flying over a secret live-fire exercise, Australian...
View ArticlePakistan security forces kill 6 militants in a raid in the northwest
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Security forces in Pakistan acting on intelligence raided a militant hideout in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's northwest on Friday, triggering...
View ArticleRwanda expresses solidarity with military general sanctioned by the US over...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rwanda's government on Friday asserted solidarity with a top official sanctioned by the U.S. over violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major...
View ArticleSinn Féin leaders won't attend St. Patrick's event at White House to protest...
LONDON (AP) — Sinn Féin's leaders said Friday they will not attend a traditional St. Patrick's Day event next month at the White House as a protest against President Donald Trump's stance on Gaza. The...
View ArticleThousands rally in Slovakia to mark the 2018 slayings of an investigative...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands rallied all across Slovakia on Friday to mark the seventh anniversary of the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee. The rallies are part of a...
View ArticlePope Francis isn't out of danger but his condition isn't life-threatening,...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ complex respiratory infection isn't life-threatening but he's not out of danger, his medical team said Friday, as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in the...
View ArticleThousands rally in Romania's capital to support far-right Georgescu after...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Romania’s capital on Saturday in a show of support for Călin Georgescu, the far-right populist who emerged as the front-runner...
View ArticleHungarians will decide whether Ukraine can join the European Union, Orbán says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hungary will be the one to decide whether Ukraine is able to achieve its hopes of joining the European Union in the future, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Saturday in...
View ArticleTrump-Putin summit preparations are underway, Russia says
Preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia's deputy foreign minister said Saturday. It marked a clear...
View ArticlePope Francis is in critical condition after a long respiratory crisis,...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection, the Vatican said....
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