Passengers of a bus that was swept away by floodwaters are rescued by boat, near Garissa, northern Kenya, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Police said some of the passengers managed to escape just before the bus was submerged, while others climbed onto the roof. The incident happened just hours after...
BOISE, Idaho — An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 landed safely in Idaho after experiencing an in-flight emergency Tuesday when pilots received a warning light in the flight deck, airline and airport officials said. The issue was determined to be a faulty cargo hold indicator, Air Canada...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities have deployed more than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces at mosques and marketplaces across the country ahead of the massive Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said Tuesday. Eid al-Fitr, which means feast, will be celebrated in Pakistan on Wednesday,...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans are voting Wednesday in a hotly contested parliamentary election that's largely seen as a referendum on conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol and a possible sign of a deepening domestic divide. Regardless of the results, Yoon will stay in power and his major...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Republicans approved the bill on a 24-5 vote. It must...
BROWNVILLE, N.Y. — A Long Island doctor who was headed to upstate New York to see the solar eclipse with her family fell out of a moving trailer on a highway and died, authorities said. Dr. Monika Woroniecka, 58, a pediatrician at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital who specialized in...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifty-one passengers were rescued after the bus they were traveling in was swept away by floodwaters on a river bridge in northern Kenya, authorities said Tuesday. The bus is still stuck in the river some 30 meters away from the bridge, although the waters are...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter are asking a judge to keep them out of prison as they face sentencing for their role in an attack that killed four students in 2021. FILE - James Crumbley enters the Oakland County Courtroom of Cheryl Matthews during his trial,...
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. YouTuber Ium Daro, who started filming Angkor monkeys about three months ago, follows a mother and a baby along a...
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Germany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations' top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly...
Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan led the inauguration of the new 10-story and fully air-conditioned school building, Dr. Alejandro Albert Elementary School (DDAES), in Sampaloc, Manila on Monday, April 8. Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan leads the inauguration of new school building in Sampaloc,...
