In this image made available on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, by CompassCollective, rescuers attend to an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone who was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy's southernmost Lampedusa island, and is believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant boat...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that Russian...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during their meeting at Ankara Esenboga Airport on December 12, 2024. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds, Pool Photo via AP) AQABA, Jordan (AP) — Top U.S. officials were in the Middle East...
FAMINE IN GAZA – Palestinian children collect water in jerrycans at a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Niger's ruling junta suspended the BBC for three months over the broadcaster's coverage of an extremist attack that allegedly killed dozens of Nigerien soldiers and civilians, authorities said Thursday. FILE - A logo of the BBC marks the BBC Headquarters in London, Britain,...
NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence, a senior police official said Thursday. Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday,...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrians marched through central Damascus on Thursday in the funeral procession of a well-known anti-government figure, chanting calls for justice for the activist who was killed in prison during the last days of President Bashar Assad’s rule. The coffin of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia, detailing more than 100 steps federal officials can take to curb hate, violence, bias and discrimination against Muslims and Arab Americans. White House press secretary...
Israeli soldiers with the national flag stand on an armoured vehicle after crossing the security fence near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Palestinian medical...
FILE - President-elect Donald Trump attends a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Dec. 7, 2024. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — About six months ago, Donald Trump was sitting in a courtroom in lower Manhattan listening to a jury make...
Sierra Leonean migrant worker Isatta Bah, 24, smiles as she holds her daughter, Blessing, one year old, during an interview with The Associated Press while waiting to be repatriated back home, as they are sheltered at a former car dealership in Hazmieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 4,...
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier addresses the National Assembly prior to a vote on a no-confidence motion that could bring him down and his cabinet for the first time since 1962, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is...
