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Shooting at Toronto pub wounds 12 people

TORONTO (AP) — A dozen people were injured in a shooting at a pub in eastern Toronto, police said Friday night. Police said they were called to reports of multiple people being shot near Progress...

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Francis rests in hospital as Holy Year marches on without him, this weekend...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia on Saturday as the Vatican’s Holy Year proceeded without him on a weekend dedicated to the Catholic Church’s volunteers. “The...

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In his own words: Pope Francis' views on resigning changed over time

ROME (AP) — As he recovers from pneumonia in the hospital, Pope Francis has increasingly handed off his day-to-day responsibilities to cardinals as questions swirl about the near and long-term future...

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Landslide in southwest Colombia kills 1 and leaves 3 missing

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Heavy rains unleashed a landslide in southwest Colombia, killing at least one person, officials said Saturday. Three other people were missing. The victim was dragged away in...

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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill more than 20 as Polish prime minister warns...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched heavy aerial attacks on Ukraine for a second night Saturday after the United States stopped sharing satellite images with the Ukrainian government, officials said....

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International Women's Day protests demand equal rights and an end to...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Women took to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa, South America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence....

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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh brace for upcoming food reductions as aid...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Rohingya refugees in crammed Bangladeshi camps say they are worried about a U.S. decision to cut food rations by half beginning next month, while a refugee official says...

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Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo following...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — After weeks of lawsuits and human rights criticism, Panama on Saturday released dozens of migrants who were held for weeks in a remote camp after being deported from the United...

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Honduras holds primaries as voter frustration simmers over security and the...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Voters in Honduras will select candidates from the three main parties Sunday to compete in November’s general election for the presidency in a country that remains deeply...

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Macron's diplomatic comeback: from France's domestic crisis to reshaping...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is back at the center of global diplomacy, seeking to ease relations with President Donald Trump, championing a Ukraine peace plan alongside his British...

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Pope, responding well, rests as Vatican marks another Holy Year event without...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia Sunday after doctors reported some positive news: After more than three weeks in the hospital, the 88-year-old pope is responding...

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Syria's neighboring foreign ministers call for lifting sanctions and...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syria's top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries Sunday called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions on Syria and post-war reconciliation. The foreign...

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Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days. The attack...

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Court-martial hearing set to begin for Pentagon leaker already facing years...

BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for leaking highly classified military documents, is scheduled to begin...

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Ukrainian war veteran amputees learn adaptive skiing in Oregon

HOODOO SKI AREA, Ore. (AP) — Ukrainian war veteran Oleksandr Shvachka lost his left leg to Russian tank fire outside Kyiv. Three years on, the latest step in his physical and mental rehabilitation...

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Canada's next prime minister managed the financial crisis, then Brexit and...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s next prime minister has helped run two Group of Seven economies in crisis before and now will try to steer Canada through a looming trade war brought by U.S. President Donald...

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Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago....

TOKYO (AP) — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed...

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North Korea fires several ballistic missiles after the US and South Korea...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined...

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Pope following Vatican's spiritual retreat from afar as he recovers from...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is participating in the Vatican’s weeklong spiritual retreat from a Rome hospital as he continued his recovery on Monday from double pneumonia and looks ahead to the 12th...

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What makes Greenland a strategic prize at a time of rising tensions? And why...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. No one is laughing now. Trump’s interest in Greenland, restated...

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