China has started erecting temporary housing units after an earthquake...
BEIJING (AP) — Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were being set up Thursday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 135...
View ArticleSerbia opposition urges EU to help open international probe into disputed...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's main opposition group on Thursday urged the European Union to help open an international investigation into reported irregularities during last weekend's election. The...
View ArticleIsraeli police are investigating 19 prison guards in the death of a...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Nineteen Israeli prison guards are under investigation in the death of a 38-year-old Palestinian security prisoner in their custody, police said Thursday. Thaer Abu Assab was...
View ArticleUkraine ends year disappointed by stalemate with Russia, and anxious about...
The year started with high hopes for Ukrainian troops planning a counteroffensive against Russia. It ended with disappointment on the battlefield, an increasingly somber mood among troops and anxiety...
View ArticlePakistan arrests activists to stop them from protesting in Islamabad against...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's police used water cannons, swung batons, and arrested dozens of activists in an overnight crackdown to stop protesters from entering the capital to denounce the forced...
View ArticleCongo conducts a 2nd day of voting after delays and closed polls keep people...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo entered a second day of voting Thursday after a chaotic rollout and lengthy delays forced officials to extend the balloting in the general election, drawing criticism from...
View ArticleUN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes after a notorious group...
CAIRO (AP) — Fighting between Sudan's military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the...
View ArticleUS is engaging in high-level diplomacy to avoid vetoing a UN resolution on...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States, key allies and Arab nations engaged in high-level diplomacy in hopes of avoiding another U.S. veto of a new U.N. resolution on desperately needed aid to Gaza....
View ArticleLive updates | Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza and UN says half a million people...
Israel kept up its airstrikes and ground operations across the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says more than half a million people are “starving” because not enough food has entered the besieged...
View ArticlePolice chief says at least 15 people are dead after a mass shooting at a...
PRAGUE (AP) — Prague's police chief says an armed man who killed at least 15 people was a student at a university where the mass shooting took place. Police and the Czech Republic's interior ministry...
View ArticleThese numbers show the staggering losses in the Israel-Hamas war as Gaza...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest conflict between Israel and Hamas is by far the deadliest and most destructive of their five wars since the militant group seized the Gaza Strip in 2007. The fighting...
View ArticleA South Korean religious sect leader has been sentenced to 23 years in prison...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean religious sect leader whose sex crimes were featured in the popular Netflix series “In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal” earlier this year was sentenced to 23...
View ArticleVatican prosecutor appeals verdict that largely dismantled his fraud case but...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros but found a...
View ArticleGaza death toll exceeds 20,000 as Israel expands ground war against Hamas
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 20,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas, health officials said Friday, the latest indication of the staggering cost of the conflict...
View ArticleFrance completes military withdrawal from Niger, leaving a gap in the terror...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — France on Friday completed the withdrawal of its troops after they were asked to leave Niger by the country’s new junta, ending years of on-the-ground military support and...
View ArticleA court in Romania rejects Andrew Tate's request to visit his ailing mother...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court on Friday rejected a request by the divisive influencer Andrew Tate to temporarily leave the country to visit his mother in the U.K. after she had suffered a...
View ArticleNorth Korea appears to be looking to make more bomb fuels at its main nuclear...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea appears to have started operating a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex in a possible attempt to establish a new facility to produce bomb fuels, the...
View ArticlePolice seek a motive as Prague mourns the 14 people killed in the nation's...
PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police investigated Friday why a student went on a dayslong violent rampage culminating in a shooting at the university he attended in Prague that left 14 dead and dozens wounded....
View ArticleMexico's president is willing to help with border migrant crush but wants US...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday that he is willing to help out with a surge of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States, but he wants the U.S....
View ArticleUN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After many delays, the U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza but...
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