By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM METZ Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit a school being used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, as the country's negotiators prepared to meet international mediators to discuss a ...
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Olympic Games organizers said they "deeply apologize" for introducing South Korea's athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony in Paris.
As the South Korean athletes waved their nation's flag on a boat floating down the Seine River ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of a key Islamist party began a sit-in protest in the garrison city of Rawalpindi late Friday after authorities detained dozens to prevent them from holding the rally in Pakistan's neighboring capital, citing security reasons, officials said.
The ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Javier Milei and French President Emmanuel Macron met Friday in Paris where they appeared to put aside recent controversy stemming from their countries' fierce soccer rivalry.
The meeting comes after a video clip spread online showing the ...
HINTON, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies this week destroyed more than 350 structures but all of the critical infrastructure is intact, officials said Friday.
The fast-moving fire that prompted 25,000 people to flee the city of Jasper and adjacent ...
By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office said Friday that the U.K. will not intervene in the International Criminal Court's request for an arrest warrant against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ...
By AMANUEL GEBREMEDHIN BIRHANE Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued their search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country.
Heavy rain triggered deadly slides on ...
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PARIS (AP) — French transport was thrust into chaos Friday just hours ahead of the Olympics 2024 opening ceremony after a series of coordinated "malicious acts" upended high-speed train lines.
Officials said the arson attacks and other vandalism on the ...
By EVENS SANON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — No chairs. Missing blackboards. A lack of bathrooms.
Schools in Haiti's capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts basic government services as the state education system faces a $23 million ...
By JOHN ANTCZAK and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press
Lightning strikes have sparked fast-moving wildfires in Idaho, prompting the evacuation of multiple communities, including one in which a man drove past a building and trees engulfed in flames as a tunnel of smoke rose over the ...
PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Olympics are getting off to a rough start in Paris, with suspected acts of sabotage targeting France's flagship high-speed rail network and cloudy skies and forecast rains ahead of its sprawling, ambitious opening ceremony.
Camping out for the opening ceremony
People ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police arrested 95 Libyan nationals in a raid on a suspected secret military training camp on Friday and authorities said they were investigating whether there were more illegal bases in other parts of the country.
The ...
By AMANUEL GEBREMEDHIN BIRHANE Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Search teams were still digging at the site of deadly mudslides in southern Ethiopia on Friday, as the death toll rose to 257, according to the U.N. humanitarian office.
Heavy rain triggered deadly slides on ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rain in the past week has triggered floods and landslides in Japan, disrupting transportation and forcing residents to take shelter on safer ground. Four people were missing Friday, including two police officers.
The rain had subsided ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India's government said.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube in her ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations gathered in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday for a two-day meeting to discuss a global tax on the super-rich, a top priority for Brazil, which holds the ...
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece formally approved an offer to buy 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the United States as part of a major defense overhaul, government officials said Thursday.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said while visiting a military ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Carrying backpacks and small children, hundreds of people sleeping on the streets of Paris climbed aboard buses surrounded by armed police on Thursday, the latest group of migrants and homeless people to be driven out of the city ahead of the ...