Ukraine's convicts offered release at a high price: Joining the fight against...
DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return,...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox protest against order to enlist in Israeli military turns...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men clashed with Israeli police in central Jerusalem on Sunday during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for...
View ArticleDangerous Hurricane Beryl closes in on southeast Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl was closing in on the southeastern Caribbean, and government officials late Sunday pleaded with people to take shelter from the dangerous Category 3 storm....
View Article18 inmates flee a prison after overpowering guard in Pakistan-administered...
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Eighteen inmates, including some on death row, have escaped from a prison in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir after overpowering a guard with a pistol, Pakistani...
View ArticleR. Sampanthan, the face of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and its struggle...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a...
View ArticleThe Latest | Israel releases 55 Palestinians it had detained from Gaza,...
A Palestinian health official says Israel released 55 Palestinians on Monday whom it had detained from Gaza, including the director of the territory’s main hospital. Mohammed Abu Selmia was detained...
View ArticleNorth Koreans are seen wearing Kim Jong Un pins for the first time as his...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For the first time, North Korean officials have been seen wearing lapel pins with the image of leader Kim Jong Un, another sign the North is boosting his personality cult to...
View ArticleJapan successfully launches an advanced Earth observation satellite on its...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan successfully deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket Monday. The H3 No. 3 rocket lifted...
View ArticleIsrael releases director of hospital it says was used as a Hamas base. He...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel released the director of Gaza's main hospital on Monday, seven months after the military raided the facility over allegations it was being used as a Hamas command...
View ArticleBolivia summons Argentine ambassador for reprimand over its claims of a fake...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian government on Monday summoned the Argentine ambassador to address the country's claim that the attempted military coup that rattled Bolivia last week was a hoax....
View ArticleIranian presidential candidates accuse each other of having no plan or...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s presidential candidates on Monday accused each other of having no solution for the country’s problems ahead of Friday's runoff election aimed at choosing a successor for the...
View ArticleFirefighters battle wildfires on 2 Greek islands as premier warns of a...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters battled wildfires that broke out on the eastern Aegean islands of Chios and Kos Monday and injured five people, as Greece’s prime minister warned of a dangerous...
View ArticleNorth Korea brags of new missile with 'super-large warhead.' Outsiders doubt...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it had test-fired a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying “a super-large warhead,” a claim quickly disputed by South Korean officials...
View ArticleHurricane Beryl grows to Category 5 strength as it razes southeast Caribbean...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — Hurricane Beryl strengthened to Category 5 status late Monday after it ripped doors, windows and roofs off homes across the southeastern Caribbean with devastating winds...
View ArticleHungary's leader is in Ukraine for talks with Zelenskyy. It's his first visit...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his first visit to the country since Russia’s full-scale...
View ArticleDriver whose car struck pedestrians in South Korea will face accidental...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A driver whose car struck pedestrians waiting at a crowded intersection in South Korea's capital, killing nine people, will be investigated on allegations of accidental...
View ArticleJosé Raúl Mulino sworn in as Panama's new president, promises to stop...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — José Raúl Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama’s next president, facing pressure to slow irregular migration through the Darien Gap that connects his country with Colombia. The...
View ArticleDutch king swears in a new government 7 months after far-right party won...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A new Dutch government was sworn into office Tuesday on promises to impose strict new limits on immigration, more than seven months after elections dominated by a...
View ArticleHezbollah’s deputy leader says group would stop fighting with Israel after...
BEIRUT (AP) — The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Tuesday the only sure path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza. “If there is a...
View ArticleIran's presidential candidates discuss economic sanctions and nuclear deal...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian presidential candidates on Tuesday discussed the impact of economic sanctions imposed on their country by the United States and other Western nations and presented their...
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