By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis launched the second phase of his big Catholic reform project Tuesday by asking forgiveness for a host of sins, reasoning that the church must atone for its transgressions if it wants to re-establish credibility with the ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A nationwide census was launched Tuesday by Myanmar's military government, which says it will be used to compile voter lists for a general election promised for next year, even though much of the country is engulfed in civil war. Census ...
By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A rebel group in Congo generates around $300,000 a month in revenue through its control of a mining area in the east of the country, a U.N. official said. In April, the M23 — a rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda — seized ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said its ground troops crossed into Lebanon overnight, launching what the military described as "localized" raids to root out Hezbollah fighters and infrastructure. Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it saw no sign of Israeli forces and ...
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal searched on Tuesday for two dozen people still missing and tried to recover the bodies of those killed in weekend flooding and landslides that left more than 200 dead. The disaster came just ahead of the ...
By PASCAL BASTIEN, BARBARA SURK and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he "pled guilty to journalism." In his first public remarks since he was released from prison in ...
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Chinese national accused of passing information on a major air freight hub to a man who is suspected of spying for China, prosecutors said Tuesday. The woman, identified only as Yaqi X. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in the ...
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country's population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse as gang violence smothers life in the capital of ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN, ABBY SEWELL and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli ground forces crossed into southern Lebanon early Tuesday, marking a significant escalation of an offensive against Hezbollah militants and opening a new front in a yearlong war against its ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court gave three police officers prison sentences on Monday over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that killed nearly 160 people. It was the first conviction of ...
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Doctors Without Borders treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east where armed groups vie for power, the ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force helping to tackle gang violence in Haiti, after brushing off a call from Haiti to start talks on transforming it into a ...
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — In just over a week, intensified Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed seven high-ranking commanders and officials from the powerful Hezbollah militant group, including the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The move left ...
By HASSAN AMMAR Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — More than two days after a massive Israeli airstrike that killed the leader of the Hezbollah militant group, smoke is still rising from the smoldering wreckage. Israel said the Friday night strike targeted a meeting at an underground ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Lithuania on Monday referred the hard-line president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, members of his government, security officials and military officers to the International Criminal Court, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity by forcing their own people to ...
ROME (AP) — Italian police arrested 19 people, accused of criminal ties with the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia group, in a move that decimated the fan clubs backing Serie A teams Inter Milan and AC Milan. Prosecutors said at a press conference on Monday that possible charges include criminal ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — One more person has died from mass shootings at two houses on the same street in a South African village over the weekend, bringing the death toll to 18, officials said Monday. Police are still searching for the assailants who ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired missiles and drones at 11 regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, in a 33rd consecutive night of aerial attacks behind the front line and set a new monthly record of drone barrages. In Kyiv, multiple ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict struck an apartment building early Monday. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people, as Hezbollah ...
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A new investigation focused on three of the world's largest producers of shrimp released on Monday claims that as big Western supermarkets make windfall profits, their aggressive pursuit of ever-lower wholesale prices is causing misery for ...