MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — The morning sun filtered through the forest canopy, casting dappled light on this village in Cameroon. For the Baka Indigenous community, it was a timeless image. Henri Lema poses for a photograph outside his house in Nazareth village Southern Cameroon, Wednesday Aug. 21,...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely disappeared from great swaths of San Francisco, a city widely known for its visible homeless population. The number of people sleeping outdoors dropped to under 3,000 in...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A major Ukrainian drone attack set multiple Russian arms depots ablaze, destroying what Ukraine's General Staff said were thousands of tons of weaponry, including missiles from North Korea. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint press conference with...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Below United Nations headquarters, a state-of-the-art security post dubbed the "Brain Center" hums with activity on the eve of next week's high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. The annual diplomatic pilgrimage is bringing more than 140 world leaders to New...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo said they released 600 prisoners in the country's main prison on Saturday as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons. Relatives greet some of the 600 prisoners released from Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital Kinshasa's...
PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will skip this year's Al Smith charity dinner in New York, breaking with presidential tradition so she can campaign instead in a battleground state less than three weeks before Election Day. Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal agents on Saturday boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, the FBI confirmed. FILE - The collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge rests on the container ship Dali, May 12, 2024, in Baltimore, as seen...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a school. People protest against Prime Minister...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced that it fired a barrage of missiles at a military base deep inside Israel early Sunday following an Israeli airstrike more than a day earlier that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group's senior...
The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed that three emergency medical assistance teams in the Philippines have been certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) for international disaster and humanitarian deployment. (DOH / Facebook page) The DOH announced that on Sept. 20, the WHO...
Jhodie Peralta added another medal in the Team Philippines’ war chest after scooping one bronze medal in the IWF World Junior Weightlifting Championships in Leon, Spain on Friday, Sept. 20. Jhodie Peralta,center. (IWF) Peralta posted 85 kilos for the third-best lift in snatch in the women’s...
A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure. This June 2023 United States Coast Guard still frame...
