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Israel launches heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza after widening its offensive

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel launched heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza overnight and into Wednesday after broadening its offensive against Hamas to more areas where the military had t...

Dec 27, 2023

Appellate court reverses federal conviction against former Nebraska US Rep. Fortenberry

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An appellate court on Tuesday reversed a 2022 federal conviction against former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, ruling that he should not have been tried in Los Angeles. Fortenbe...

Dec 26, 2023

Sweden moves a step closer to NATO membership after Turkey's parliamentary committee gives approval

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden's bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership...

Dec 26, 2023

Israeli military says Gaza ground offensive has expanded into urban refugee camps

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military says it has expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to the densely populated urban refugee camps in the central part of the territory. Tuesday's a...

Dec 26, 2023

Sports photos captured unforgettable snippets in 2023

They are snippets in time, unforgettable snapshots that gloriously capture the soaring euphoria and gut-wrenching agony of the games we love, not to mention the randomness of a moment that might've go...

Dec 25, 2023

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Navalny located in penal colony 3 weeks after contact lost

MOSCOW (AP) - Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with hi...

Dec 25, 2023

A plane stuck for days in France for a human trafficking investigation leaves for India

VATRY, France (AP) - A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation departed on Monday for India, after an exceptional holiday ordeal that left about 300 Indians en route to ...

Dec 25, 2023

The death toll from an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza rises to 106, Palestinian officials say

CAIRO (AP) - Palestinian medical officials say the death toll from an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza has risen to 106. The announcement makes the Sunday night airstrike in the Maghazi refugee camp ...

Dec 25, 2023

At least 49 dead in one of deadliest strikes since Gaza war began

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) - Palestinian health officials say at least 49 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza. It's one of the deadliest strikes since Israel declared war aga...

Dec 24, 2023

Police in Serbia fire tear gas at election protesters threatening to storm capital's city hall

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Police in Serbia fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capital's city council building Sunday in protest of what election observers said...

Dec 24, 2023