DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Thursday it will supply Syria with 1.65 million barrels of crude as Damascus struggles to rebuild the country’s economy and infrastructure after a nearly 14-year civil war. The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced that the CEO of the Saudi Fund for...
TOKYO (AP) — Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese. That legacy is facing quiet...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gas tanker truck exploded along a Mexico City highway Wednesday, sending flames and smoke billowing over the south of the capital and injuring at least 57 people, some with their entire bodies charred and others waiting for help in the middle of the road with burns and torn...
ATLANTA (AP) — After the detention of more than 300 South Korean workers in an immigration raid at a Georgia battery plant last week, a charter plane arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday to bring them home. But its planned return with workers in the afternoon was canceled, an airport spokesperson...
OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination carried out from a...
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has ordered an immediate halt to a 700 billion Korean won loan support from his government to a Philippine bridges project over corruption concerns. In a Facebook post on Sept. 9, President Lee said: “We have ordered the immediate...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a 2006 military coup. His political journey, marked by unprecedented popularity, a dramatic fall...
JALALPUR PIRWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers backed by the military evacuated nearly 100,000 people overnight from a central Pakistani city, some of whom described enduring scorching heat in tents and open areas after floodwaters submerged their homes and swept away farmland. In the past 24 hours,...
SEOUL, South Korea - With Artificial Intelligence (AI) and complex crises heralding the dawn of a new civilization, the world needs more resilience and communities of “good people” to survive the transition, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Speaking at the...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian attackers opened fire on people at a bus stop at during the morning rush hour in Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding another 12, according to Israeli officials. An Israeli soldier and civilians who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers,...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Police in Kathmandu opened fire Monday on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media, killing at least 17 people and wounding 145, officials said. The death toll was announced by police official Shekhar Khanal. He said that 28 police officers were...
Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around...
