Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone,...
Laurie Lilliott stands amid the wreckage of her destroyed home in Dekle Beach in rural Taylor County, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Kate Payne) HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency...
In this image made from video, bodies of migrants who were washed away are seen on the shore of the Red Sea, off the coast in Djibouti Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Djiboutian Coast Guard via AP) DJIBOUTI (AP) — Two vessels carrying migrants from Africa sank in the Red Sea off the coast of...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Thursday to three activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique and to a U.K. pioneering research agency who "have each made a profound impact on their communities and the global stage." "Their unwavering...
Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran, center, and his lawyer Navin Thevar arrive at the High Court in Singapore, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A former Singaporean cabinet minister was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law measures that allow defendants in criminal cases to avoid prosecution if they join the military. The measures, whose enacted versions appeared on a government website Wednesday, come as Russia's need for military manpower...
From left clockwise, Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Cardinal Mario Grech, Pope Francis, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, and Father Giacomo Costa attend the opening session of the second session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Paul VI...
Undocumented Haitians detained by immigration officials stand inside a police vehicle, in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic announced Wednesday that it would start massive...
Relatives of victims in a bus fire carry portraits of the deceased in a procession at Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School Lan Sak, Uthai Thani province, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — The bodies of almost two dozen young students and...
A firefighter stands in front of an apartment hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) BEIRUT (AP) — Israel pressed forward on two fronts Wednesday, pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah that left eight...
This photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows part of a damaged taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, after an explosion was reported. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a...
A woman struggles with winds generated by Typhoon Krathon in Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — An approaching typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall to Taiwan killed two people and injured more than 100...
