HUNT, Texas (AP) — As the search in Texas continued Wednesday for more than 160 people believed to be missing days after a destructive wall of water killed over 100 people, the full extent of the catastrophe had yet to be revealed as officials warned that unaccounted victims could still be found...
SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) — At least three people were missing in a mountain village in southern New Mexico that is a popular summer retreat after monsoon rains triggered flash flooding Tuesday that was so intense an entire house was swept downstream. Emergency crews carried out at least 85 swift...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A farmer was seriously injured when he was attacked by a lion that had escaped a zoo in southern Turkey on Sunday, local media reported. The lion was later shot dead. The male lion, named Zeus, escaped his cage at Land of Lions in Manavgat, a resort city on the Mediterranean...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during his 12-year pontificate. Leo bid farewell to Rome during his Sunday noon blessing,...
BANGKOK (AP) — China said Sunday that European medical device companies will be barred from selling to the Chinese government as a countermeasure for the European Union 's restrictions on the sale of similar products from China. European companies will be excluded if the budget for...
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it. Part of Trump 's executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits,...
DEIR al-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said on Sunday, as Israel 's military said it has struck over 100 targets in the embattled enclave in the past day. The strikes came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
BEIRUT (AP) – It 's as if the whole weight of Israel 's war in Gaza has fallen on Amr al-Hams. The three-year-old has shrapnel in his brain from an Israeli strike on his family 's tent. His pregnant mother was killed. His father is paralyzed by grief over the death of his longtime...
DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) – The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been living in exile since fleeing Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959. He sat before a packed audience...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil will play host to a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies Sunday and Monday during which pressing topics like Israel 's attack on Iran, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and trade tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to be handled...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met in Damascus on Saturday with Syria 's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, marking the restoration of relations after 14 years of tension during Syria 's conflict and Assad family rule. Syria has been improving relations...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who exercises authority in the Catholic Church must make oneself small, so that only Christ remains. In word and deed since, Leo has seemed intent on almost disappearing into the...
