Category Archives: World

French court convicts 18 in a major trial that casts light on the deadly migrant-smuggling trade
LILLE, France (AP) - A French court found 18 people guilty Tuesday in a major migrant-smuggling trial that shed light on the lucrative but often deadly clandestine business of transporting people on f...
Nov 05, 2024

French court convicts 18 in a trial casting light on the deadly migrant smuggling trade
LILLE, France (AP) - A French court in Lille on Tuesday found 18 defendants guilty in a migrant smuggling trial linked to the dangerous English Channel crossings. The group was charged after a 2022 po...
Nov 05, 2024

A week after Spain's floods, families hold out hope that loved ones are not among the dead
SEDAVI, Spain (AP) - Francisco Murgui went out to try to salvage his motorbike when the water started to rise. He never came back. One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, Mara Mur...
Nov 05, 2024

Iran official claims Iranian-German prisoner died before being put to death
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An Iranian official claimed Tuesday that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran could execute him - directly contradicting the country's earlier...
Nov 05, 2024

Iran official claims Iranian-German prisoner died before being put to death
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An Iranian official claimed Tuesday that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran could execute him - directly contradicting the country's earlier...
Nov 05, 2024

An Israeli airstrike kills 20 people in northern Gaza, Palestinian officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, as Israel wages a nearly monthlong ...
Nov 05, 2024

Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike has killed 20 people in northern Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children. Hossam Abu Safiya, the dire...
Nov 05, 2024

Man arrested after federal officials say he sought to destroy Nashville power site
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Department of Justice said Monday that federal agents have arrested a Tennessee man with ties to white nationalist groups who they say attempted to use what he believed to ...
Nov 04, 2024

North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern sea, South Korea's military says
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Tuesday fired at least one ballistic missile toward its eastern sea, according to the South Korean military, as the country continued its weapons demonstration...
Nov 04, 2024

Musk PAC tells Philadelphia judge the $1 million sweepstakes winners are not chosen by chance
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A lawyer for Elon Musk 's political action committee told a judge in Philadelphia on Monday that so-called "winners" of his $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes in swing states are n...
Nov 04, 2024