By MATTHEW LEE and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the United States showed a unified front on Monday in the face of growing international anger over Israel's airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar and its intensifying bombardment of Gaza City. As Arab and Muslim ...
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A judge in Zambia on Monday sentenced two men to two-year terms in prison with hard labor after they were convicted of plotting to kill the president using witchcraft. The men, a Zambian and a Mozambican national, were convicted under a colonial-era witchcraft law last ...
LONDON (AP) — Britain on Monday summoned the Russian ambassador in London following Moscow's "unprecedented violation" of NATO airspace, as the U.K. announced it would send fighter jets to help defend Polish airspace. The Foreign Office called the incursions into Polish and Romanian airspace ...
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BOLTENHAGEN, Germany (AP) — Slowly, Dirk Schoenen dives down to a huge pile of ammunition from World War II at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. He removes some of the top pieces and carefully puts them into a basket, as a team of engineers, divers and ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar's prime minister denounced Israel on Sunday as foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim nations met to discuss a possible unified response to Israel's attack on Doha targeting the leadership of the militant group ...
By MATTHEW LEE and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel on Sunday as its military intensified attacks on northern Gaza, flattening multiple high-rise building and killing at least 13 Palestinians. Rubio said before the trip that he ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and EDUARDO FRANÇOIS Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday pushed back against a 50% tariff on Brazilian imported goods to the United States, arguing that it was "political" and "illogical." Lula said in a New ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A barrage of airstrikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza City as Israel ramps up its offensive there and urges Palestinians to evacuate, medical staff reported Saturday. The dead included 12 children, according to the ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China launched two probes targeting the U.S. semiconductor sector Saturday ahead of talks between the two nations in Spain this week on trade, national security and the ownership of social media platform TikTok. China's Ministry ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and allied aircraft were deployed in a "preventive" operation in Poland's airspace Saturday because of a threat of drone strikes in neighboring areas of Ukraine, and the airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin was closed, authorities said. The alert lasted ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered this week's attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Qatar, he took a major gamble in his campaign to pound the group into submission. With signs growing that the mission failed, that ...
By JON GAMBRELL, ABDEL KAREEM HANA and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar's prime minister said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "killed any hope" of releasing hostages still held in the Gaza Strip after Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha. The comments ...
By OPE ADETAYO AND EDWARD ACQUAH Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A group of 14 West Africans deported from the U.S. arrived in Ghana, the country's president said. The country joins Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan as African countries that have received migrants from third countries ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and LORNE COOK Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched another round of heavy airstrikes in Yemen on Wednesday, killing dozens just days after Houthi rebels carried out a drone attack that struck an Israeli airport. The Israeli ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects. Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie's archive, which opens to the public this week. The 90,000 ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The administration of Argentina's President Javier Milei resurrected the country's interior ministry on Wednesday in a rare bid to build alliances with opposition governors days after his party lost by a landslide in a key ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen broke Wednesday with her pro-Israel stance and announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over its military campaign in Gaza. The 27-nation EU is ...
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have granted recognition to same-sex partnerships in the Chinese city, despite the rights offered being limited, in a major setback to the LGBTQ+ movement. The Registration of ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A court in Johannesburg sentenced seven Chinese nationals on Wednesday to terms of 20 years in prison each for trafficking people from Malawi and forcing them to work at a factory in South Africa. The group was convicted on Feb. 25 ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held talks with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Wednesday about maritime security and bilateral efforts to fight transnational drug smuggling. Noem said during a joint appearance in ...