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CAIRO (AP) — A fire ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on Sunday, quickly filling it with thick black smoke and killing 41 worshippers, …
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By SAMY MAGDY
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8/14/22
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MADRID (AP) — A large wildfire in northeast Spain grew rapidly overnight and was burning out of control Sunday, forcing the evacuation of eight villages and 1,500 people in Zaragoza province, …
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8/14/22
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top judicial body said Sunday it doesn't have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament, days after an influential Shiite cleric gave it one week to dismiss the …
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
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8/14/22
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after violence flared up between …
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8/13/22
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country.
Samar, a former …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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8/13/22
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilians poured into the University of Sao Paulo's law school to hear a manifesto denouncing the brutal military dictatorship and calling for a prompt return of the rule of …
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By DIANE JEANTET, DÉBORA ÁLVARES and MAURICIO SAVARESE
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8/11/22
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BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man with a shotgun took employees and customers hostage at a Beirut bank Thursday and threatened to set himself on fire with gasoline unless he received his trapped …
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB
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8/11/22
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ROME (AP) — A Vatican cardinal marked the 80th anniversary Tuesday of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein by celebrating a Mass near the former Auschwitz death …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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8/9/22
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BENGALURU, India (AP) — On the heels of finalizing its updated climate targets, the Indian government took another step toward their climate goals by passing amendments to a 21-year-old energy …
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By SIBI ARASU
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8/9/22
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops killed three Palestinians and injured dozens more in a shootout Tuesday during an arrest operation in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian …
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By ILAN BEN ZION
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8/9/22
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG and JOSEPH KRAUSS
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8/8/22
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HAVANA (AP) — Cuban firefighters were joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela on Sunday as they battled for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm in the western …
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By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
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8/7/22
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BEIRUT (AP) — The scheduled arrival Sunday of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine and cross the Black Sea under a wartime deal has been delayed, a Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukraine …
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By BASSEM MROUE
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8/7/22
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HAVANA (AP) — A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled Saturday in the city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured nearly 80 people and left …
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By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
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8/6/22
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip were exchanging fire Saturday in the worst bout of cross-border violence since an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas last …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG and FARES AKRAM
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8/6/22
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli jets pounded militant targets in Gaza early Saturday as rockets rained on southern Israel, hours after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on the coastal enclave …
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By FARES AKRAM and TIA GOLDENBERG
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8/6/22
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that it's open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against …
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
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8/5/22
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis heeded the call of an influential Shiite cleric to gather in a show of strength for a mass prayer in the heart of Baghdad's government zone on Friday. …
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
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8/5/22
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, …
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By DAVID RISING
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8/5/22
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships with grain have departed Ukrainian ports and are headed to Turkey for inspection, Turkey's defense ministry said on Friday.
The three ships are loaded with a …
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8/5/22
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