Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, right, leaves after the opening of the new Iranian consulate building in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 8, 2024. Iran's foreign minister Monday accused the United States of giving Israel the "green light" to strike the consulate building in Syria...
DECADES-LONG ALLY – President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife Yuko Kishida upon their arrival at the White House, Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP) WASHINGTON — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a much-anticipated...
Ambulance workers walk past a building called New Lucky House where a fire started in Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) HONG KONG — A fire in a large, mostly residential building in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning killed at least five people and left...
VISIT TO WASHINGTON – Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and his wife Yuko Kishida participate in an arrival ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP) WASHINGTON — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida begins a much-anticipated visit to Washington on...
PACKED – Motorists queue up to board a ferry to cross to Sumatra Island ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday at Ciwandan Port in Cilegon, Indonesia, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP) JAKARTA, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians are packing bus and train stations, airports and highways as...
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE – The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP) MESQUITE, Texas — A chilly, midday darkness fell across North America on Monday as a total solar eclipse raced across the...
HOTTEST MONTH ON RECORD – A volunteer distributes drinking water next to a bus stand on a hot summer day in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Another month, another heat record for the planet. Earth just had its warmest March ever recorded, the 10th month in a row to set such a...
MEETING WITH THE POPE – Pope Francis meets with relatives of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, at the Vatican, Monday, April 8, 2024. (Vatican Media via AP) VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Monday with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, marking the six-month...
CHINA BEER SAMPLING – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns sample beer at the Jing-A brewery in Beijing, China, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP) BEIJING — Ever since she ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects in Beijing last July,...
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL – The ruling People Power Party's leader Han Dong-hoon (right) with his party's candidate Kim Jong-hyeok during a campaign rally for the upcoming parliamentary election in Goyang, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP) SEOUL, South Korea — Soaring green...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An exit poll released after Poland's local and regional elections Sunday showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-EU party trailing the conservative opposition party that governed Poland for eight years until December. But the socially liberal mayor of Warsaw, a Tusk ally,...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a Ukrainian drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear...
