BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli jets struck several towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday after urging residents to leave, marking an escalation in their near-daily strikes on the country. The airstrikes came hours after militant group Hezbollah urged the Lebanese government not to enter negotiations with...
BANGKOK (AP) — China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier after extensive sea trials, state media reported Friday, adding a ship that experts say will help what is already the world’s largest navy expand its power farther beyond its own waters. The official Xinhua news agency said the...
NHA TRANG, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall Thursday north of Gia Lai province in central Vietnam, lashing the region with fierce winds and torrential rain after leaving more than 100 people dead and dozens missing in the Philippines. An unusually strong storm for the region in...
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The United States is terminating South Sudan 's designation for temporary protected status, which for years allowed people from the East African country to remain in the U.S. legally and escape armed conflict back home. The termination will be effective Jan. 5, the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will be rendered “defenseless’’ and possibly "reduced to almost Third World status" if the Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs he imposed this year on nearly every country on earth. The justices sounded skeptical...
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered authorities to improve a Chicago-area immigration facility after a group of detainees sued, alleging they were being kept in “inhumane” conditions. The order will be in effect for 14 days. It requires officials to provide detainees at a U.S....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, flight delays and federal workers nationwide left without paychecks. President Donald Trump has refused to...
All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds. And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the...
PRAGUE (AP) — Cardinal Dominik Duka, a former Archbishop of Prague who was persecuted by the communist regime and later helped negotiate compensation for churches for property seized during that era, has died. Duka died early Tuesday at a hospital in Prague, the Prague Archdiocese said in a...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won praise in her country 's parliament on Tuesday for a diplomatic debut that included hosting U.S. President Donald Trump — but was scolded by the opposition leader for what he said was going too far in flattering Trump. Takaichi held a...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday called for tripling the government spending on projects for expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure and technology in a budget speech. Lee also called for lawmakers to approve a planned 8.2% increase in defense...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s plan to preserve founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s home as a national monument was condemned by his youngest son Tuesday, fueling a bitter, years long family dispute over the legacy of the city-state’s founding leader. The government announced...
