KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Twenty-two members of an Islamic business group, including its CEO, were charged Wednesday for being part of an organized crime group after hundreds of children believed to have been sexually abused were rescued last month from welfare homes linked to the ...
By SARAH EL DEEB, FARNOUSH AMIRI, and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that one of its airstrikes outside Beirut earlier in the month killed a Hezbollah official widely expected to have replaced the militant group's longtime leader, who was killed by an ...
By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press
AVIGNON, France (AP) — They are, on the face of it, the most ordinary of men. Yet they're all on trial charged with rape. Fathers, grandfathers, husbands, workers and retirees — 50 in all — accused of taking turns on the drugged and inert body of ...
By BINSAR BAKKARA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press
LABUHAN HAJI, Indonesia (AP) — About 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, were on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile (0.60 kilometers) off the coast of Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh on Tuesday, ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea warned Tuesday it could consider supplying weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea allegedly dispatching troops to Russia, as both North Korea and Russia denied the movements. NATO's secretary general said that ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Oscar disintegrated Tuesday as it headed toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least seven people and unleashing heavy rains on an island also hit by an unrelated massive power outage.
Oscar's ...
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption across ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Friday returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers, Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the biggest repatriation of war dead since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Most of the soldiers were ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' top leader and the mastermind of the group's Oct. 7 attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off.
Sinwar's killing on Thursday ...
By VICTORIA MILKO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia's popular outgoing president and the country's dictatorial past will be inaugurated as its leader Sunday. He has promised to continue his predecessor's widely ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN, MELANIE LIDMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela detained five more foreigners, including three U.S. citizens, for their alleged connection to a plot to destabilize the country, the interior minister announced Thursday, marking the latest round of arrests for what authorities have characterized as ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reminded his troops to treat South Korea as a hostile foreign enemy and insisted that the North wouldn't hesitate to attack its rival if the South infringes upon its sovereignty, state media said ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Armed groups operating in Colombia's Amazon are tightening their grip on the region and that's stalling government efforts to tackle deforestation, according to a think tank report Thursday.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's Senate voted Thursday to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with chest ...
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer
LONDON (AP) — An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada's most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness, raising concerns over ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN, MELANIE LIDMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him in ...
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The number of mpox -related deaths in Africa has surpassed 1,000, the head of the continent's top public health agency said Thursday, warning of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test ...
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August ...
By RAF CASERT and MIKE CORDER Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders used a summit Thursday to seek ways to make the bloc a more hostile destination for migrants and asylum seekers following a recent surge in support for the extreme right, which has fomented opposition to ...