By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted the ...
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Thursday. The report by the ...
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted one person and acquitted six others over a thwarted bomb plot during anti-government protests in 2019, in the city's first case brought under a United Nations anti-terrorism law, according to local media. A panel of nine jurors ...
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill "tens of thousands" of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency's ...
By JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press BAGUIO, Philippines (AP) — American forces are ready with a "range of options" to deal with increasing acts of aggression in the disputed South China Sea if ordered to carry them out jointly and after consultations with treaty ally the ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press KHIRBET KARKUR, Israel (AP) — An Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza returned to a hero's welcome tinged with a bitter reality: Much of the small village he calls home, Khirbet Karkur, is targeted for demolition. Qaid Farhad Alkadi, 52, is one of Israel's ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Three Christian extremists would probably not have fatally shot two police officers and a bystander in an ambush on a rural Australian property and wounded a third officer two years ago if they had not shared the same psychiatric ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted a heavy aerial attack on Ukraine for the third time in four days Thursday, again launching missiles and scores of drones that mostly were intercepted, Ukraine's air force said. Russian forces fired five missiles and ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Following a pair of defections by opposition senators, Mexico's ruling party said Wednesday it is edging closer to a steamroller two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. The ruling Morena party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said it had won over two ...
By JULIA FRANKEL and NASSER NASSER Associated Press AL-FARAA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces launched a large operation in the occupied West Bank overnight and into Wednesday, killing at least 10 Hamas militants, carrying out arrests and sealing off the volatile city of ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Foreign Ministry announced 92 additions Wednesday to its list of Americans banned from entering the country, including some journalists who formerly worked in Russia, and law enforcement and business people. A ministry statement said the bans were imposed "in response ...
By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday threatened to shut down the local operations of X, formerly Twitter, unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours. The order from Justice ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged oil tanker that remains ablaze in the Red Sea "in consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns," ...
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian forces working with police sent from Kenya have launched a joint operation to oust criminal gangs from one of the roughest neighborhoods of Haiti's capital, Prime Minister Garry Conille said Wednesday. Conille spoke at a ...
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world's most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small ...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro took to the streets Wednesday in an attempt to revive protests against him as he tightens his grip on power following last month's disputed election. The ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday demanded a halt to the increasing attacks between Lebanon's Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces and warned that further escalation "carries the high risk of leading to a widespread ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — It's been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country's share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to start shutting down operations. For supporters of the ...
By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, returned to the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India on Wednesday after undergoing a knee replacement surgery in New York. Hundreds of followers in ...
By ROBERT BOCIAGA Associated Press BINMAR, Chad (AP) — When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without means for survival. Though raised in a farming family, she struggled to get by in a ...