By ASSANA SAMBU and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace, three days after national elections. ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, a day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage. This is the latest exchange as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ...
LONDON (AP) — A driver accused of injuring more than 100 people by ramming his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League championship dramatically changed his plea to guilty as his trial got underway on Wednesday. Paul Doyle, 54, sobbed as he admitted dangerous ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars. Supreme ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France's top court on Wednesday upheld Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for illegal campaign financing of his 2012 reelection bid, in another blow to the former president's legacy and reputation. The decision by the Court of Cassation makes ...
By ISOBEL KOSHIW, SAMYA KULLAB, VASILISA STEPANENKO and VOLODYMYR YURCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The soil surrounding the gas facility in Ukraine was once pitch-black before it was burned to a rusty red by a massive Russian drone and missile assault. Scattered remnants of ...
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A woman in New Zealand who was convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered will spend at least 17 years in prison, a judge ruled ...
By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia said Tuesday he planned to scrap a ream of taxes, in one of his first moves since becoming the nation's first conservative leader in nearly two decades in a bid to rescue a crisis-stricken ...
By TUNDE OMOLEHIN, OPE ADETAYO and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — All 24 schoolgirls held by assailants following a mass abduction last week from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday. A total of 25 girls ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's military on Saturday launched airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza in the latest test of the ceasefire that began on Oct. 10, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said five senior Hamas members were killed. Health officials in Gaza ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With his new 28-point plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump is resurfacing his argument that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn't "have the cards" to continue on the battlefield and must come to a settlement that heavily tilts in Moscow's ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted Friday on allegations he and others tried to manipulate the investigation into a marine's drowning, in another criminal case against the ex-leader. Yoon earlier this year ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Leaders from the Group of 20 countries will meet for a summit in South Africa this weekend without any U.S. representatives after President Donald Trump announced a boycott over his widely rejected claims that the host country is ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site, according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press ABUJA, NIGERIA (AP) — A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kanu founded the Indigenous People of ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33, mostly ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33, mostly ...
By SAMYA KULLAB and ISOBEL KOSHIW Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to take stronger action to show accountability in the face of a corruption scandal presenting the greatest threat to his government since Russia's ...
By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The White House hit out Thursday at South Africa's leader for "running his mouth" over the United States' boycott of this weekend's Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg in another diplomatic rift ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site, according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian ...