Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate’s ‘interference’ in kingdom
December 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate resolution blaming its crown prince for the killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi…
Indian troops enforce lockdown to foil Kashmir public march
December 17, 2018
Armed soldiers and police are enforcing a security lockdown to foil a public march toward India’s military headquarters in disputed Kashmir in protest of weekend killings…
Polish president says attack victim tried to protect others
December 17, 2018
Poland’s president says that a Polish victim in last week’s shooting attack in Strasbourg, France, had been trying to protect other people…
Australian actress levels accusations of sexual misconduct against actor Geoffrey Rush
December 17, 2018
Yael Stone, known for “Orange is the New Black” said the award winning actor exposed himself to her.…
Locked away, forgotten: Muslim Uighur wives of Pakistani men
December 17, 2018
Pakistani men whose Muslim Uighur wives are held in China’s re-education camps struggle to reunite their families…
Locked away, forgotten: Muslim Uighur wives of Pakistani men
December 17, 2018
Pakistani men whose Muslim Uighur wives are held in China’s re-education camps struggle to reunite their families…
Taliban say they’re meeting US officials again on Monday
December 17, 2018
Taliban to meet with US officials United Arab Emirates; Saudi, Pakistani and UAE representatives also attending…
Trump sparks a debate over the future of American power
December 17, 2018
Two years of a tumultuous presidency have intensified Washington’s angst over the U.S’s place in the world.…
Trump sparks a debate over the future of American power
December 17, 2018
Two years of a tumultuous presidency have intensified Washington’s angst over the U.S’s place in the world.…
Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate’s ‘interference’ in kingdom
December 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate resolution blaming its crown prince for the killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi…
Germany to compensate hundreds who fled Nazis as children
December 17, 2018
Germany has agreed to one-time payments to those still living from the thousands evacuated in ‘Kindertransport’ efforts in Nazi era, group says…
New Zealand leader excited for holiday break with infant
December 17, 2018
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looking forward to spending more time with her daughter Neve over the Christmas break and thanking everybody who’s helped her juggle responsibilities…
A soldier rose to become a general. His daughter says he abused her for years.
December 17, 2018
After a years-long Army investigation, James J. Grazioplene faces rape charges in Virginia.…
Sri Lankan president doubts he can work with reappointed PM
December 17, 2018
Sri Lanka’s president accused newly reappointed premier of corrupt leadership in a scathing speech in which he voiced doubts about their ability to work together…
Suspected gas explosion destroys eatery in Japan, hurts 42
December 17, 2018
A suspected gas explosion has destroyed wooden buildings housing a restaurant and a real estate office in northern Japan, injuring 42 people…
French city honors victims of Christmas market attack
December 16, 2018
People have filled a square in the French city of Strasbourg to show respect and sympathy for the victims of last week’s shooting attack near a famous Christmas market as the death toll rose to five…
Iraq lays cornerstone to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque
December 16, 2018
Iraqi religious leaders have laid the cornerstone to rebuild Mosul’s landmark al-Nuri mosque, which was blown up in the battle with Islamic State militants in 2017…
Sudan president lands in Syria in 1st visit by Arab leader
December 16, 2018
Sudan’s president has become the first Arab League leader to visit Syria since civil war erupted there nearly eight years ago…
Brazil police say faith healer has turned himself in
December 16, 2018
Brazilian police in the central state of Goias say the celebrity faith healer accused of sexually abusing more than 300 women has surrendered to authorities after spending nearly a day as a fugitive…
Brazil police say faith healer has turned himself in
December 16, 2018
Brazilian police in the central state of Goias say the celebrity faith healer accused of sexually abusing more than 300 women has surrendered to authorities after spending nearly a day as a fugitive…
North Korea marks 7th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death
December 16, 2018
North Koreans are marking the anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il seven years ago with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son, Kim Jong Un…
Remove or keep a statue? South Africa debates painful legacy
December 16, 2018
South African tussle over statue of 19th century white leader echoes similar US debate on Confederacy monuments…
Trump says he’ll review case of Matt Golsteyn, a Special Forces veteran who faces murder charge
December 16, 2018
The Army veteran killed a suspected Taliban bombmaker in 2010 and was charged by the Army last week.…
Romania party boss calls rival’s comment on EU post treason
December 16, 2018
The leader of Romania’s ruling party says the country’s president should be charged with treason after he said Romania wasn’t prepared to assume the European Union’s rotating presidency…
AP Interview: Catalan separatists on hunger strike speak out
December 16, 2018
AP Interview: Separatist politicians on prison hunger strike say upcoming rebellion trial will be a platform to promote Catalonia’s independence from Spain.…
Israeli PM’s son gets temporary ban on Facebook
December 16, 2018
Facebook has temporarily blocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair for writing a post criticizing the social media platform as “thought police.”…
Sri Lanka’s prime minister reinstated, ending political crisis
December 16, 2018
The power struggle between the president and prime minister threatened to derail the country’s democracy.…
New Ukrainian Orthodox leader gives 1st liturgy, urges unity
December 16, 2018
New Ukrainian Orthodox leader urges peace and unity in first liturgy…
Bomb kills 8 in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed forces
December 16, 2018
Syrian activists say a bomb blast in a northern town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces has killed at least eight people…
Fighting around Yemen’s Hodeida leaves 12 dead, 25 wounded
December 16, 2018
Fighting around Yemen’s port city of Hodeida leaves 12 dead and 25 injured…
Report: Iranian general fatally shoots himself by accident
December 16, 2018
The website of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is reporting that a general who fought in Syria and Iraq has allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun…
Somalia closes notorious prison amid abuse allegations
December 16, 2018
Somalia has closed an underground prison where the government has held extremist suspects and journalists, amid allegations of abuses against inmates, the security minister said Sunday…
Look inside a ‘one of a kind,’ 4,400-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt
December 16, 2018
The well-preserved tomb belongs to a royal priest named Wahtye and is filled with drawings of his family.…
Archaeologists discover a ‘one of a kind,’ 4,400-year-old tomb in Egypt
December 16, 2018
The well-preserved tomb belonged to a royal priest named Wahtye and is filled with drawings of his family.…
1 dead, 44 injured in Switzerland bus crash
December 16, 2018
Zurich police say a tour bus on its way to Germany has crashed in Switzerland, killing one person and injuring 44 others…
Kremlin candidate wins in repeated vote in Russia’s Far East
December 16, 2018
Russians living in the far eastern region of Primorsky Krai elected a Kremlin-backed candidate for governor after a previous election was thrown out due to voting fraud…
Police, anti-migration protesters clash at EU headquarters
December 16, 2018
Police have used tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators who assembled around the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels to protest the adoption of a United Nations migration pact…
Turkey expects ‘concrete steps’ from US on cleric’s return
December 16, 2018
Turkey’s foreign minister is expressing impatience with the United States for not extraditing a cleric whom the Turkish government alleges masterminded a failed 2016 coup…
41 people injured in Japan restaurant explosion
December 16, 2018
Japanese police say 41 people have been injured in an explosion at a restaurant in northern Japan…
Japanese police say more than 40 people injured in an explosion at a restaurant in northern Japan
December 16, 2018
Japanese police say more than 40 people injured in an explosion at a restaurant in northern Japan…
Croatia denies abusing migrants at Bosnian border
December 16, 2018
Croatian authorities are denying a report by an international watchdog group that the country’s police are illegally and sometimes violently pushing migrants back into neighboring Bosnia…
Moscow police arrest least 5 protesters near security office
December 16, 2018
A human rights activist says Moscow police have arrested at least five protesters at an unsanctioned rally outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB…
Frogs, fish and small birds die in English zoo fire
December 16, 2018
Chester Zoo says insects, frogs, fish and small birds perished in a fire that broke out in an enclosure devoted to exotic tropical habitats…
Strong quake rocks Indonesia’s Papua; no injuries, damage
December 16, 2018
A strong earthquake has struck Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage…
Sri Lanka’s president reinstates prime minister he sacked
December 16, 2018
Sri Lanka’s president has reappointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister, nearly two months after firing him and setting off a long political stalemate in the South Asian island nation…
Lebanese take to the streets to protest political stalemate
December 16, 2018
Hundreds of Lebanese have taken to the streets to protest against a political stalemate that has prevented the formation of a new government seven months after elections…
Indonesia’s Soputan volcano erupts, ejecting thick ash
December 16, 2018
A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, ejecting columns of thick ash as high as 7,500 meters (24,606 feet) into the sky…
Israeli military finds 4th Hezbollah tunnel from Lebanon
December 16, 2018
The Israeli military says it has exposed a fourth Hezbollah attack tunnel dug from Lebanon…
In Cameroon, journalists are being jailed on charges of ‘fake news’
December 16, 2018
Reporter Mimi Mefo Takambou was arrested after citing social media reports that claimed the military had shot Charles Wesco, an American missionary from Indiana.…
Anti-government protesters return to streets in Hungary
December 16, 2018
Several thousand protesters marched through Budapest for a fourth day to oppose laws introduced by the Hungarian government that critics say will restrict workers’ rights and already have undermined democracy.…
