FILE - Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979. (PA via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because...
A girl watches as Mohammad Eid mourns his cousin Dima, along with her uncle and grandfather, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Israel and Hamas appear to be...
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally to oppose his impeachment near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The top aide of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Israeli soldiers overlook the Gaza Strip from a tank, as seen from southern Israel, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) JERUSALEM (AP) — Yotam Vilk says the image of Israeli soldiers killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip is seared in his mind....
Destroyed buildings are seen inside the Gaza Strip from southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) JERUSALEM (AP) — A missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted central Israel early Tuesday, sounding sirens and causing people to flee into bomb shelters....
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (AP) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday test-fired multiple missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea's military said, as it continued its weapons demonstrations ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House. South Korea's Joint...
Ariel Hart holds her newborn baby as flames of the Palisades Fire are visible through the window at St. John's hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Jordan Hart, via AP) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Additional water tankers and scores of firefighters arrived at the...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday that two North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea. FILE - Russian...
TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country's Meteorological Agency said Monday, while warning the public to stay away from coastal areas because of a tsunami threat. Tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's foreign minister on Monday welcomed the release of a German-Iranian rights activist from prison in Iran and her return to Germany. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote on the social media platform X that it's “a great moment of joy that Nahid Taghavi can finally...
PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the Maha Kumbh festival, which is being touted as the world's largest religious gathering. An ascetic dances with another as...
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands after signing a security agreement on the sidelines of the G7, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Savelletri, Italy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden strode into the White House...