Pope appears in better health, praises Israeli and Arab fathers who both lost...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis appeared in better health on Wednesday, walking into the Vatican audience hall on his own with a cane for his weekly general audience and delivering his prepared text...
View ArticleUkraine's president replaces a top security official in latest reshuffle
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of the country’s top security officials with the head of Ukraine’s foreign spy agency in a new reshuffle that comes as...
View ArticleA UK financial trader dubbed the ringleader of an interest rate manipulation...
LONDON (AP) — A British financial trader, who has been described as the ringleader in the manipulation of a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal Wednesday to...
View Article7 Lebanese and an Israeli killed in an exchange of fire along the...
HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon killed seven of its members early Wednesday and triggered a rocket attack...
View ArticleThe British royal family learns that if you don't fill an information vacuum,...
NEW YORK (AP) — A media frenzy was born on Feb. 27, when the hashtag #WhereIsKate exploded online with speculation about the whereabouts of Britain's Princess of Wales. It opened a rabbit hole of...
View ArticleNigerian parents finally get a chance to see their children who spent more...
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity said they saw them on Wednesday and that they couldn’t hold back tears...
View Article783 million people face chronic hunger. Yet the world wastes 19% of its food,...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world wasted an estimated 19% of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to a new United Nations report. The U.N. Environment...
View ArticleA fight to protect the dignity of Michelangelo's David raises questions about...
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck, curators worry the marble statue’s...
View ArticleKing Charles stresses importance of kindness as he skips pre-Easter service...
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Thursday stressed the importance of friendship and acts of caring in a recorded message delivered to a traditional pre-Easter church service, which the monarch...
View ArticleIt's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa...
View ArticleFrance's lower house passes a bill banning hair discrimination. It now goes...
PARIS (AP) — Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill that would ban discrimination over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. The bill's authors...
View ArticlePhilippine president warns of countermeasures in response to Chinese...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president said Thursday that his government would take action against what he called dangerous attacks by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships...
View ArticlePutin says he won't start a war with NATO but Western bases hosting Ukraine...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin scoffed at the possibility of his country launching an attack on a NATO member, calling it “sheer nonsense,” but warned that any Western air base...
View ArticleFrench lawmakers condemn 'bloody and murderous' 1961 massacre of Algerian...
PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Thursday condemned an infamous 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris as a “bloody and murderous repression,” marking another step in the country's...
View ArticleTwo people die after falling into the Atlantic along Spain’s north coast...
MADRID (AP) — Two people have died after falling into the Atlantic Ocean on Spain’s northern coast, emergency services for the northern region of Asturias said Thursday. The deaths came amid warnings...
View ArticleRussian veto brings end to UN panel monitoring enforcement of North Korea...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution Thursday in a move that effectively abolishes the monitoring by United Nations experts of sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program,...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority announces a new Cabinet as it faces calls for reform
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform. President Mahmoud Abbas, who has led the PA for nearly...
View ArticleA Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray...
View ArticleA Lebanese nun's request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms...
BEIRUT (AP) — The nun stood in front of a group of young students at a Lebanese Christian school and asked them to pray for the “men of the resistance” in southern Lebanon who she said were defending...
View ArticleA growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in...
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