NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifty-one passengers were rescued after the bus they were traveling in was swept away by floodwaters on a river bridge in northern Kenya, authorities said Tuesday. The bus is still stuck in the river some 30 meters away from the bridge, although the waters are...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter are asking a judge to keep them out of prison as they face sentencing for their role in an attack that killed four students in 2021. FILE - James Crumbley enters the Oakland County Courtroom of Cheryl Matthews during his trial,...
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. YouTuber Ium Daro, who started filming Angkor monkeys about three months ago, follows a mother and a baby along a...
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Germany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations' top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly...
Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex. This 2022 photo shows a self-portrait of Maxwell Kuzma, a transgender man working as a...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Monday he plans to meet with members of Congress this week to discuss support for rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge , which has blocked the main shipping channel at Baltimore's port for nearly two weeks. “I’m going to be...
NEW YORK — A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he mounts a last-minute fight to move the case out of Manhattan, foiling the former president’s latest attempt to put off the historic trial. Republican...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Iran's foreign minister Monday accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for a strike on its consulate building in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials including two generals. In this photo released on the official Telegram page of the Syrian...
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith's team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election . The brief from prosecutors was...
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A makeshift ferry sank off Mozambique’s northern coast killing 94 people, including children, local media reported Monday. Silvério Nauaito, the administrator of the Island of Mozambique, told state-run Radio Mozambique that the ferry sank Sunday afternoon and that the...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity , putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life. The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a...
