Iran says at least 103 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two bombs exploded and killed at least 103 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian...
View ArticleRussia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release...
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian authorities said that...
View ArticleLive updates | Fighting rages in southern Gaza and fears grow the war may...
Heavy fighting raged in central and southern Gaza on Wednesday as fears mounted of a regional escalation following a strike in Beirut that killed one of the top Hamas leaders. Israel has refused to...
View ArticleIsrael's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are....
View ArticleAn apparent Israeli strike killed a top Hamas commander. How might it impact...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The killing of a top Hamas commander in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment has given Israel an important symbolic achievement in its 3-month-old war against...
View ArticleScenes of loss play out across Japan's western coastline after quake kills...
SUZU, Japan (AP) — His face hidden under a humble straw hat, the man stood silent, watching several helmeted rescue workers carefully lift his wife's body from the rubble, wrapped in blue plastic on a...
View ArticleThousands attend the funeral of a top Hamas official killed in an apparent...
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets in Beirut Thursday the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an...
View ArticleEl Salvador's Nayib Bukele takes his presidential reelection campaign beyond...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Nayib Bukele took his presidential reelection campaign beyond his tiny country's borders this week to capitalize on his rising profile across Latin...
View ArticleThe key question about fiery crash at Tokyo airport: Did one or both planes...
Passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 516 were buckled up and ready to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport as their pilot made a final approach. “Cleared to land,” the pilot repeated after receiving an...
View ArticleMexico's president clarifies that 32 abducted migrants were freed, not rescued
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Migrants from several countries abducted from a bus and held by armed men for days near Mexico’s border with Texas were released by their captors, not rescued as initially reported...
View ArticleOscar Pistorius is set to be released on parole. He will be strictly...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is due to be released from prison Friday to live under strict conditions at a family home having served nearly nine years of a murder sentence for the...
View ArticleIslamic State group claims responsibility for Iran suicide bombings killing...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike,...
View ArticleStrike kills 12 people, mostly children, in Gaza area declared safe zone by...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike flattened a home Thursday in an area of southern Gaza that the military had declared a safe zone, killing at least 12 people, almost all of them children,...
View ArticleLive updates | Hamas loses a leader in Lebanon but holds on in Gaza
Israel appears far from achieving its goals of crushing Hamas and freeing an estimated 129 hostages still held in Gaza nearly three months after the group's surprise cross-border attack and the...
View ArticleRussia and Ukraine exchange long-range attacks as their front-line forces...
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that its air defenses shot down 10 Ukrainian air-launched missiles over Crimea, as both sides in the war pounded each other with long-range aerial strikes while...
View ArticleTrains collide on Indonesia's main island of Java, killing at least 4 people
BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Two trains collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java on Friday, causing carriages to buckle and overturn and killing at least four people, officials said. The accident...
View ArticleRussia approves 2 candidates for ballot against Putin in March election
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's national elections commission on Friday registered the first two candidates who will compete with President Vladimir Putin in the March election that Putin is all but certain to...
View ArticleJapanese air safety experts search for voice data from plane debris after...
A team of transport safety officials searched for a voice recorder from the severely burned fuselage of a Japan Airlines plane Friday, seeking crucial information on what caused a collision with a...
View ArticleIndian Navy deploys ship and patrol aircraft following bid to hijack a...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian navy has deployed a ship and a patrol aircraft in the Arabian Sea following a hijacking attempt onboard a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, it said Friday. The vessel sent a...
View ArticleRival Koreas conduct provocative drills along their tense sea boundary,...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean...
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