BEIRUT (AP) — The cost of reconstruction and recovery for Lebanon following the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war is estimated at $11 billion, the World Bank said in a new report Friday. The war killed over 4,000 people in Lebanon, displaced hundreds of thousands and caused widespread destruction in...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , something not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader. Trump made the comments in an interview aired on Friday by Fox Business News, saying he wrote to Iranian leaders....
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis hit the three-week mark Friday in his hospitalization for double pneumonia, in stable condition and resuming his therapies after giving the world a tangible indication of just how frail and sick he is. The Vatican said the 88-year-old pope had a good night’s rest and...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night, officials said Friday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with the U.S. on ending the 3-year war will take place next week. In this...
LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday. Smoke rises from a factory hit during clashes by...
PARIS (AP) — The discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb weighing 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) near the tracks severed Paris' high-speed rail links with London and Brussels on Friday, dashing travelers' weekend getaway plans and causing cascading disruptions to scores of other trains to...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was resting Wednesday, the start of the solemn Lenten period leading up to Holy Week observances, after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for double pneumonia. The moon moves behind the cross on top of St Peter's...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable. Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing...
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland's prime minister declared Wednesday that “Greenland is ours” and cannot be taken or bought in defiance of a message from U.S. President Donald Trump, who said his administration supported the Arctic island’s right of self-determination — but added that the...
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar's home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overran an army base in the country's north. Machar, whose political rivalry with President Salva...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have to wait until their replacements arrive at the International Space Station next week before they can check out later...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in a plenary during the Securing our Future Summit on Ukraine and European security at Lancaster House in London, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has few options after...
