Category Archives: World
South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly votes to impeach acting President Han
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo despite vehement protests by governing party lawmakers, further de...
Dec 27, 2024
Organizers say two sailors have died in Sydney to Hobart yacht race amid wild weather conditions
SYDNEY (AP) - Organizers said Friday that two Sydney to Hobart sailors have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honors favorite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw among mass retire...
Dec 26, 2024
Israeli attorney general orders probe into report that alleged Netanyahu's wife harassed opponents
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife on suspicion of harassing political opponents and witnesses in the ...
Dec 26, 2024
India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh, architect of economic reforms, dies aged 92
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India's economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was ...
Dec 26, 2024
India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh, architect of economic reforms, dies aged 92
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India's economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was ...
Dec 26, 2024
Israeli strike kills 5 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, the Health Ministry said early Thursday. The Israeli military sai...
Dec 25, 2024
Israeli strike kills 5 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, the Health Ministry said early Thursday. The strike hit a car out...
Dec 25, 2024
Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday. Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesman...
Dec 25, 2024
Kazakhstan says at least 28 survived in Azerbaijan Airlines' plane crash. Over 30 are likely dead
MOSCOW (AP) - An Azerbaijani airliner has crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau with Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry now saying that at least 28 people survived the crash, which could mean that ove...
Dec 25, 2024
Haiti gang attack on journalists covering a hospital reopening leaves 2 dead, several wounded
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince's biggest pu...
Dec 24, 2024
