PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported under U.S. President Donald Trump, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries. FILE - Panama's Minister of Public Security Frank...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to overflowing toilets or holes in the ground that serve as one. FILE - Inmates stand inside a corridor during time they are...
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — When Haben Gebregergish first immigrated to the German city of Magdeburg seven years ago, the Eritrean immigrant was walking to the supermarket with her child when an intoxicated woman approached her on the street. An election poster of the far-right anti-immigrant party...
FAR'A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since the...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis slept well, got out of bed and ate breakfast Wednesday, the Vatican said, after tests confirmed the 88-year-old pontiff had developed pneumonia in both lungs in a further complication that raised concerns about his ability to fight off the infection. Candles with the...
Filipino workers need not worry about artificial intelligence (AI) immediately taking over their jobs as the World Bank reported that developing countries, including the Philippines, have lower exposure to AI disruptions. "For developing countries, and in particularly low-income countries, the...
Displaced Palestinians, traveling in vehicles, wait to cross through a security checkpoint at the Netzarim corridor as they make their way from central Gaza to the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) CAIRO (AP) — A top Hamas official says the militant group...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff attend an interview after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in...
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a luncheon with senators from his support base at the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former...
President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Pool via AP) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order meant to expand access to and reduce costs of in vitro fertilization and issued a presidential memorandum...
Olympia Ducanes and Joshua Banas reigned supreme in the U15 mixed doubles of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Youth Contender Puerto Princesa 2025 recently. Olympia Ducanes and Joshua Banas Ducanes and Banas defeated compatriot Chloe Silva and Rald Tanghal, 11-2, 11-7, 11-7, in the final to lead the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Salvage crews work on recovering...
