Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of 3 former organizers of Tiananmen...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's top court on Thursday overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to...
View ArticleClutched by the global faithful and draped on candles and statues, rosaries...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter’s and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him. Dating...
View ArticleSchools are closed and public transport has stopped as rare cyclone...
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Early wind and rain from a rare tropical cyclone began lashing part of eastern Australia on Thursday as schools were closed, public transport was stopped and desperate...
View ArticleEU leaders open emergency talks on defense and Ukraine aid as US support wanes
BRUSSELS (AP) — Facing the possibility of a fundamental disengagement under U.S. President Donald Trump, European Union leaders opened a day of emergency summit talks Thursday to beef up their own...
View ArticleHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem promises help in her first visit to...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged Thursday to help Puerto Rico in her first visit to the U.S. territory as it struggles to rebuild from catastrophic...
View ArticleAssad loyalists kill at least 13 police officers in ambush on Syrian forces...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town Thursday, leaving at least 13 security members dead and many others wounded, a monitoring group and a local official...
View ArticleUS says multiple offers were made to resettle Uyghurs before Thailand...
BANGKOK (AP) — The United States and other countries made repeated offers to Thailand to resettle more than three dozen Uyghur men before they were deported back to China, where rights groups fear...
View ArticleCourt orders South Korean President Yoon released from jail for his criminal...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Friday ordered impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from jail, more than a month after he was arrested and indicted over his short-lived...
View ArticleSouth Korea stops some military drills after accidental bombing in possible...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea suspended the training flights of air force aircraft and all live-fire drills following its fighter jets’ accidental bombing of a civilian area, officials said...
View ArticleAid operations in Gaza imperiled as millions of promised USAID dollars do not...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve a fragile...
View ArticleChina's foreign minister blasts the US over tariffs at his annual meeting...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, blasted Japan for its past aggression and covered a...
View ArticleChina’s foreign minister criticizes US tariffs and accuses the country of...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will continue to retaliate for the United States’ “arbitrary tariffs” and accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” in a press...
View ArticleRussia bombards Ukraine's energy grid after Zelenskyy says he'll hold talks...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night, officials said Friday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
View ArticleFar-right front-runner in Romania’s annulled presidential race files his...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu filed his candidacy Friday in a rerun of last year's presidential election that was annulled by a top court after his surprise...
View Article3 Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia across Europe from base in UK
LONDON (AP) — Three Bulgarian nationals based in Britain were convicted Friday by a London jury of spying for Russia on what police said was “an industrial scale.” The trio, nicknamed “the Minions” by...
View ArticlePolish leader Tusk plans large-scale military training for all adult males to...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday that his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the changing...
View ArticleIn 2015, Obama committed the US to achieving UN global goals by 2030. Trump...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In 2015, then-President Barack Obama committed the United States to achieving newly adopted U.N. global goals by 2030, including ending poverty, achieving gender equality and...
View Article90,000 Palestinians attend the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by...
View ArticleClashes in Syria between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than...
BEIRUT (AP) — Fighters siding with Syria's new government stormed several villages near the country's coast, killing dozens of men in response to recent attacks on government security forces by...
View ArticleRare cyclone weakens to a tropical low weather system as it approaches the...
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city, bringing flooding rain that was...
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