LONDON— British police will get stronger powers to restrict repeated protests, the government said Sunday, after almost 500 people were arrested at a demonstration in support of a banned pro-Palestinian group. The Home Office said police forces will be able to consider the “cumulative impact of...
SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers are searching on Sunday for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed almost a week ago. They have recovered 23 bodies over the weekend search, bringing the death toll to 37. Using jackhammers, circular saws and...
ILOILO CITY – Activists condemned police for allegedly dispersing a peaceful protest in this city more than a day ahead of World Teachers’ Day. “This brazen act was a direct attack on the people’s constitutional right to freedom of expression, assembly, and to petition the government for...
Vice President Sara Duterte acknowledged the critical role played by all teachers in shaping young minds and in nation-building. In a message commemorating the World Teachers ' Day on Sunday, Oct. 5, the Vice President saluted all teachers and recognized their sacrifices to hone the youth’s...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV presided Saturday over the swearing-in ceremony of 27 new Swiss Guards, lending some surprise star power to the pomp-filled ceremony as the corps struggles to find enough young men to serve in the world 's oldest standing army. Leo sat in a throne in a courtyard of...
BEIRUT (AP) — Minutes after journalists gathered outside a Gaza hospital to survey the damage of an Israeli strike, Ibrahim Qannan pointed his camera up at the battered building as the others climbed its external stairs. Then Qannan watched in horror — while broadcasting live — as a second...
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Demonstrations in more than a dozen cities have jolted Morocco for a week straight, with the young people behind them showing they can translate digital discontent into a real-world movement that authorities can 't ignore. The North African nation is the latest to be...
CAIRO (AP) — Both Israel and now Hamas have signaled support for the new U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza and release all remaining hostages there. President Donald Trump says he thinks Hamas is ready for a "lasting peace" and has told Israel to stop bombing the territory, but he warns that "all...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid on Saturday against Israel 's military campaign in Gaza in a show of growing international anger over the two-year-old war. The protests in almost every major Spanish city had been...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli army vehicle rumbles through the empty streets of a shattered neighborhood in Gaza City, and with help from a video camera, a soldier spots people standing inside a blasted out nearby building. The armored personal carrier revs its engine and moves on. A...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza "in the coming days," as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on Monday on a new U.S. plan to end the war. In a brief statement late Saturday,...
A team of excavators has uncovered a load of long-lost Spanish coins buried for centuries under the surf and sand along a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.” Shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC announced that its divers had found more than 1,000 silver and gold...
