DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.S. warned of an increased possibility of attacks in Syria during the Eid el-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Eid could begin in Syria on Sunday depending on the sighting of the new moon. Syrian authorities said they have ...
By DAVID RISING and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's ruling military said Saturday on state television that the confirmed death toll from a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake rose to 1,644, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of ...
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are preparing to launch a fresh military offensive in the coming weeks to maximize the pressure on Ukraine and strengthen the Kremlin's negotiating position in ceasefire talks, Ukrainian government and military analysts ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of protesters again congregated in Istanbul Saturday to how their support for the city's imprisoned mayor and demand his release. Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP) organized the demonstration, the latest in a series of ...
By VLASOV SULAJ and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop Anastasios following his death in January. The ceremony was held at the Cathedral of ...
By WILSON MCMAKIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea's ruling junta has pardoned the country's former dictator, Moussa "Dadis" Camara, who was serving a 20-prison sentence for the 2009 stadium massacre by the military, according to a decree read on state television. Camara was ...
By MARIAM FAM Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Muslims around the world are bidding farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is typically greeted with joy and excitement and is marked with congregational prayers and ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An abrupt announcement rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected international deep-sea waters for more than 30 years. The Metals Company in Vancouver, Canada said late Thursday that it ...
By NAA ADORKOR CUDJOE Associated Press KOFORIDUA, Ghana (AP) — Charles Owusu Aseku has traveled across Ghana and beyond in search of care for the large growth of tissue called a keloid on his neck since 2002. The 46-year-old was growing increasingly frustrated after two unsuccessful ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Over a dozen Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, beating residents with sticks and rocks, in an incident captured with rare clarity by security cameras. The video obtained ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil coach Dorival Júnior was fired on Friday after 14 months amid poor results and disappointing performances from the national team. Júnior's sacking by Brazilian Football Confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues came three ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that his first call with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was "extremely productive" and Carney said Trump respected Canada's sovereignty both in private and public but added that the relationship ...
By EDNA TARIGAN, DITA ALANGKARA and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press SIMBORO, Indonesia (AP) — Tucked between the village and the forest, Haruna and his father-in-law worked diligently through the night distilling dried patchouli plants, stoking the boiler with firewood, drops of fragrant ...
By PHILIP CROWTHER and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were ...
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country's vice presidents, was arrested in the capital. Machar's arrest in Juba on Wednesday followed detentions of ...
By SHAFIQUR RAHMAN Associated Press COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The U.S. government has confirmed it would provide $73 million in new financial aid for Rohingya refugees through the United Nations' food agency, easing worries among more than 1 million refugees that essential food ...
BEIJING (AP) — In an address to major global business leaders, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged foreign investors to have faith in China's business prospects, the latest move to revive the world's second-largest economy that has been dragged down by a property bust and a loss of ...
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that President Donald Trump's push for control over Greenland wasn't surprising given longtime U.S. interest in the mineral-rich territory. Speaking at a policy forum in the Artic port of ...
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — The remote Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, which Vice President JD Vance is visiting on Friday, is the U.S. Department of Defense's northernmost installation. The base was built following a 1951 defense agreement between Denmark and the United States. It ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military chief used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day celebration Thursday to reaffirm plans to hold a general election by year's end and call on opposition groups fighting the army to join in party politics and the electoral process. Senior Gen. Min Aung ...