A gene long thought to just raise the risk for Alzheimer's may cause some cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer’s disease — in people who inherit two copies of a worrisome gene. Scientists have long known...
View ArticleChad holds a presidential election after years of military rule
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad held its long delayed presidential election on Monday following three years of military rule under the interim president, Mahamat Deby Itno, a vote that analysts widely...
View Article2 workers killed, more than 50 trapped when a building under construction...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A multi-story apartment building under construction collapsed Monday in a coastal city in South Africa, killing two construction workers and leaving 53 trapped under the...
View ArticleAssociated Press images of migrants' struggle are recognized with a Pulitzer...
NEW YORK (AP) — The images, captured by Associated Press photographers throughout 2023 and recognized Monday with a Pulitzer Prize, spotlight the humanity of an unprecedented global migration story...
View ArticleItaly's RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of...
ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the...
View ArticleHow a beach trip in Mexico's Baja California turned deadly for surfers from...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California's Pacific coast. Their last images on social media showed...
View ArticleMacron puts trade and Ukraine as top priorities as China's Xi opens European...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron held talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday that focused on trade disputes — including lifting immediate tariff threats on Cognac exports — and...
View ArticleHamas accepts Gaza cease-fire; Israel says it will continue talks but presses...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas announced its acceptance Monday of an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel said the deal did not meet its “core demands” and that it was pushing ahead with an assault...
View ArticleChinese leader Xi visits the French Pyrenees in a personal gesture by Macron
TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by...
View ArticlePro-Palestinian student protests spread across Europe. Some are allowed. Some...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists spread across Europe on Tuesday as some called for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, while schools increasingly...
View ArticleFrom flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather...
In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat...
View ArticleRescuers bring out survivors from the rubble a day after a deadly building...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after an apartment complex collapsed in South Africa brought out more survivors Tuesday as they entered...
View ArticleScenes from Israel and Gaza reflect dashed hopes as imminent cease-fire seems...
JERUSALEM (AP) — An announcement by Hamas late Monday that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal sent people in the streets of Rafah into temporary jubilation, as Palestinian evacuees in the...
View ArticleScientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language...
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each...
View ArticleThe Eurovision Song Contest is kicking off with pop and protests as the war...
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Competition in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday in Sweden, with the war in Gaza casting a shadow over the sequin-spangled pop extravaganza. Performers...
View ArticleToo much water, and not enough: Brazil's flooded south struggles to access...
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — The mayor of a major city in southern Brazil on Tuesday pleaded with residents to comply with his water rationing decree, given that some four-fifths of the population is...
View ArticleAnguish as Kenya's government demolishes houses in flood-prone areas and...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid...
View ArticlePoland's Tusk calls secret services meeting to address judge's defection to...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk called Tuesday for a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian and Belarusian infiltration after a Polish judge who...
View ArticleDozens still missing after South African building collapse; 7 confirmed dead
GEORGE, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams used underground cameras and sniffer dogs Wednesday to search for nearly 40 construction workers still missing in rubble two days after the collapse of an...
View ArticleUK Prime Minister Sunak suffers further blow as another Conservative lawmaker...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was accused Wednesday of leading a “chaotic” government as another one of his Conservative lawmakers defected to the main opposition Labour Party ahead...
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