TOKYO (AP) — A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell restored by a group of Americans. The new bell was blessed and named "St. Kateri Bell...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prince Harry followed in his late mother 's footsteps on Wednesday by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity 's work clearing explosives from old warzones. The Duke of Sussex is...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced a renewed ceasefire Wednesday after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country 's postwar political transition and drawn military intervention by powerful neighbor...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The massive crowd that would gather once a year at a revered waterfall in central Haiti where the faithful would splash in its sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves was not there on Wednesday. Powerful gangs in March attacked the town of Saut-d...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to pass Donald Trump 's request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, moving forward on one of the president 's top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators. The legislation, which would go...
A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm last week said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him. George Retes, 25, who works as a...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded four Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, injuring at least 15 people in an attack that mostly targeted energy infrastructure, officials said. The latest bombardment in Russia’s escalating aerial campaign against civilian areas came ahead of a Sept. 2...
LONDON (AP) — A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, the national broadcaster RUV reported. The eruption began around 4 a.m. Wednesday following an intense seismic swarm on the...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India’s southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, were found by police during a routine...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States sent five immigrants it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration 's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is being held in a...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Britain has lifted a years-long ban on Pakistani airlines following improvements in the country’s aviation safety standards, the British diplomatic mission in Islamabad said Wednesday. The U.K.’s Air Safety Committee imposed the ban after Pakistan’s aviation minister in...
