South Korea's Yoon calls for unification, on holiday marking 1919 uprising...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president lambasted North Korea on Friday over what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula, weeks after North...
View ArticleGunfire paralyzes Haiti as powerful gang leader says he will try to detain...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy gunfire paralyzed Haiti’s capital Thursday, and at least four police officers were slain, as a powerful gang leader announced that he would try to capture the...
View ArticleIran votes in its first parliament election since 2022 protests as questions...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Friday held the country's first parliamentary election since the mass 2022 protests over mandatory hijab laws after the death in police custody of Mahsa...
View ArticleScandinavian Airlines medevac plane lands in Malaysian island where Norwegian...
LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday in Malaysia's northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is in hospital and being treated...
View ArticleThe Tower of London's new ravenmaster takes charge of the landmark's iconic...
LONDON (AP) — If an ancient prophecy is right, Michael “Barney” Chandler has just got the most important job in England. The 56-year-old former Royal Marine is the new ravenmaster at the Tower of...
View ArticleVeteran British left-wing disruptor George Galloway wins a special election...
LONDON (AP) — A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a town in northern England with a big Muslim minority following a contest that was mired in chaos and controversy and...
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LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by a cost-of-living crisis, fallout from the Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how...
View ArticlePentagon to lift ban on V-22 Osprey flights, 3 months after fatal crash in Japan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will lift the ban on flights by the grounded V-22 Osprey next week, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday, following a high-level meeting where Defense...
View ArticleAP PHOTOS: Russians say final farewell at funeral of opposition leader Alexei...
Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday, two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. Crowds faced a...
View ArticleCuban political dissident to receive 2024 International Women of Courage...
HAVANA (AP) — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident who never left the island despite being imprisoned twice and accused of being a United States agent, will be awarded the 2024...
View ArticleGaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of the Palestinians wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said Friday that more than 80% had been struck by...
View ArticleMexico's presidential candidates promise security or continuity as campaigns...
IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) — Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn western Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City's central square Friday as the country's leading...
View Article'They wanted to humiliate us.' Palestinian women detained by Israel allege...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Nabela thought the United Nations school in Gaza City was a safe haven. Then, the Israeli army arrived. Soldiers stormed the place, ordering men to undress and hauling women to a...
View ArticleLast surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said Saturday that the world's highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the...
View ArticleHard-liners are leading in Iran’s parliamentary election which may have...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A day after parliamentary election concluded in Iran, hard-liners are leading in initial vote counting in the capital of Tehran, state media reported Saturday....
View ArticleRussian drone strike on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa kills 3
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three people were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said Saturday. A further...
View ArticleNavalny's mother brings flowers to his grave a day after thousands attended...
Lyudmila Navalnaya and Alla Abrosimova, the mother and mother-in-law of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, were among mourners who brought flowers to his grave in Moscow on Saturday, a day...
View ArticleOil spill, fertilizer leak from sinking of cargo ship highlight risks to Red...
MIAMI (AP) — A vibrant fishing industry, some of the world’s largest coral reefs, desalination plants supplying millions with drinking water. They're all at risk from large amounts of fertilizer and...
View ArticleUS says Israel has agreed to the framework for a Gaza cease-fire. Hamas must...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it, a senior U.S. administration...
View ArticleA ship earlier hit by Yemen's Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea, the first...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels has sunk in the Red Sea after days of taking on water, officials said Saturday, the first vessel to be fully destroyed as...
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