PARIS, France - A 16-year-old was arrested over a bomb hoax outside Paris, police sources said on Friday, as authorities scrambled to halt a week of bomb scares at airports, schools and landmarks. The spate of fake threats has hit a country on high alert since the Hamas attack on Israel,...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Federal prosecutors on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's attempt to have election conspiracy charges dismissed on the grounds that he enjoys immunity for actions he took while in the White House. "No one in this country, not even the president, is above the law," special...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday he wants to build a "forward-looking" relationship with Russia as he met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, state media reported. This handout picture released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on October 19, 2023 shows Russian...
Palestinians in war-torn Gaza on Friday awaited emergency aid promised in a deal struck by US President Joe Biden, as Israel kept up its bombardment of targets in the Hamas-run enclave. The Hamas-controlled interior ministry said several displaced people who had sheltered at a church compound in...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The US intelligence community has estimated there were likely 100 to 300 people killed in the strike at the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, according to excerpts of a document seen Thursday by AFP -- far fewer than the nearly 500 deaths that health authorities in the...
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's army blamed Israel Friday for killing a member of a "journalist team" covering cross-border tensions in the country's south, as war rages further south between Israel and Gaza-based militants. On Thursday, "a journalist team of seven people covering news... near the...
WASHINGTON, United States -- President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the United States to show global leadership by backing Israel and Ukraine, saying in a speech from the Oval Office Thursday that defeating Hamas and Russia was a vital US interest. TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden...
JERUSALEM, Undefined -- Israel has threatened that every Hamas member faces death when it invades Gaza but two accused masterminds of the October 7 attacks are at the top of its hit list. (FILES) Yahia Sinwar (C), Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, waves to supporters as...
TEL AVIV, Israel - Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered full US backing for Israel in person, on a solidarity visit in which he blamed Islamist militants for a deadly rocket strike on a Gaza hospital and announced the resumption of urgent aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave. US President Joe...
NEW YORK, United States - A woman was arrested on Wednesday for disrupting Donald Trump's civil fraud trial after she approached the former US president in court saying she wanted to "assist him," a court spokesman said. Former US President Donald Trump The woman, a court employee, was "safely...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Israeli government struck a Syrian military position in the war-torn country's south, a war monitoring NGO said on Wednesday. "Sounds of explosions rang out in the province of Quneitra after an Israeli strike against a Syrian army position," said the UK-based Syrian...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Netflix on Wednesday said subscriber numbers grew nearly 11 percent to 247 million in the recently ended third quarter as it cracked down on password sharing and refined an ad-supported tier. (Photo from AFP) The leading streaming service said it is increasing...
