Category Archives: World
Netanyahu submits request for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial
TEL AVIV (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country's president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges - seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly ...
Nov 30, 2025
Death toll in Hong Kong apartment complex blaze rises to 146 as the city mourns
HONG KONG (AP) - The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings, while a steady stream of people placed...
Nov 30, 2025
Police search for shooter after 4 are killed, 3 of them children, in shooting in California
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - Authorities in California appealed to the public for tips, even rumors, as they searched Sunday for a suspect in the killing of three children and an adult during a mass shooti...
Nov 29, 2025
Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since war began, Gaza ministry says
Gaza's Health Ministry said on Saturday that the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began.The toll has continued to rise after the latest ceasefire took effect on O...
Nov 29, 2025
Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love,' dies at 88
LONDON (AP) - British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, ...
Nov 29, 2025
Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza ministry says
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday, while a hospital said that Israeli fire killed ...
Nov 29, 2025
Death toll from floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island rises to 248, authorities say
AGAM, Indonesia (AP) - Rescue workers in Indonesia struggled on Saturday to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and floods, and authorities feared the confirmed de...
Nov 28, 2025
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons c...
Nov 28, 2025
Zelenskyy's chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country's lead negotiator in talks with th...
Nov 28, 2025
Suspect in shooting of National Guard members faces murder charge as US halts all asylum decisions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the U.S. attorney for the District of...
Nov 28, 2025