By BILAL HUSSEIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit central Beirut on Thursday evening, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens, Lebanon's health ministry said, the latest in Israel's broadening campaign against Iran-backed Hezbollah ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's ground invasion in Lebanon stretched into its second week, as the Hezbollah militant group fired hundreds of rockets deep into Israel — with no end in sight to the escalating conflict. More than 1,400 ...
By MEHMET GUZEL and ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Over 2,000 Turkish citizens and some foreign nationals started boarding a Turkish military ship late Wednesday that brought in aid and will take them out of a country being hit by Israeli airstrikes targeting ...
By EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP) — The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack on residents of Pont-Sondé on Oct. 3 ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday that if pending Israeli legislation is adopted, all humanitarian operations in Gaza and the West Bank may "disintegrate," leaving hundreds of thousands of people ...
By CHRISTINA LARSON, KELVIN CHAN and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday. Their work used advanced ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Saudi Arabia was defeated for a seat in the U.N.'s premier human rights body Wednesday after a campaign by rights groups that accused the Saudis of serious rights violations. The 193-member General Assembly elected 18 new members ...
By TALES AZZONI and HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal is retiring from professional tennis at age 38, he announced Thursday, after winning 22 Grand Slam titles — 14 at the French Open — during an unprecedented era he shared with rivals Roger Federer and Novak ...
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever is under control and travel bans targeting the East African country are unnecessary, the head of Africa's top public health agency said Thursday. Rwanda declared the outbreak ...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's opposition Conservative Party will choose either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch to be its next leader, after a third contender was dramatically knocked out of the leadership contest in a tight vote on Wednesday. Badenoch, a former business secretary, received 42 of ...
By EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP) — The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack on residents of Pont-Sondé on Oct. 3 ...
By SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza has killed dozens of people and threatens to shut down three hospitals over a year into the war with Hamas, Palestinian officials and residents said ...
By DANIEL NIEMANN, MIKE CORDER and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday. Their work used ...
By CHARLES MANGWIRO Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique voted for a new president on Wednesday in an election that is expected to extend the ruling party's 49 years in power, though the opposition was already alleging manipulation of the process. "I trust the electoral ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Wednesday it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with "confrontational hysteria" by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A jailed leader of a prominent independent election monitoring group in Russia appeared in court on Wednesday as his trial continued on charges of organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading election watchdog Golos, ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A jailed leader of a prominent independent election monitoring group in Russia appeared in court on Wednesday as his trial continued on charges of organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading election watchdog Golos, ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone struck an important arms depot inside Russia, the Ukraine military said Wednesday, three weeks after another drone blasted a major Russian armory and three days after a drone smashed into a key oil terminal in ...
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping ...
By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP) — Angry whispers have broken the heavy silence that fell over Pont-Sondé just days after a vicious gang attack left more than 70 dead, marking one of Haiti's biggest massacres in recent history. The ...