World

Man indicted on 98 charges including hate crimes for 2022 shooting at Taiwanese church in California

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A man accused of killing one person and wounding five others when he opened fire at a Southern California church luncheon last year has been charged with dozens of federal hat...

May 11, 2023

Man who choked NYC subway passenger to death will face manslaughter charge, prosecutors say

NEW YORK (AP) - Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday that they will bring criminal charges against a man who used a deadly chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train, an incid...

May 11, 2023

'Money, power, sex': Idaho jury deliberates case against slain kids' mom in alleged doomsday plot

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho jury is weighing the fate of a woman charged in the slayings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in what prosecutors say was a strange doomsday-focused plot....

May 11, 2023

US ambassador accuses South Africa of providing arms to Russia; president cites investigation

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The U. S. ambassador to South Africa accused the country Thursday of providing weapons to Russia via a cargo ship that docked secretly at a naval base near the city of C...

May 11, 2023

Pakistan's Supreme Court orders release of former PM Imran Khan, after his arrest sparks violence

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose arrest earlier this week sparked a wave of violence across the country by his suppo...

May 11, 2023

Official: Explosion at residential building in Germany injures 12 first responders

BERLIN (AP) - An explosion at a residential building in western Germany injured at least a dozen people Thursday, some of them seriously, a senior security official said. The interior minister of Nort...

May 11, 2023

Zelenskyy: Ukraine counteroffensive needs more time, launching now would cost too many lives

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country's military needs more time to prepare an anticipated counteroffensive aimed at pushing back Russian occupying forces. Zele...

May 11, 2023

Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as fighting goes on, truce efforts falter

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed a fourth militant commander on Thursday, raising the death toll from the latest burst of fighting to 25. Israel braced for more...

May 10, 2023

War, natural disasters left record 71 million people internally displaced in 2022, report says

The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday...

May 10, 2023

Peru: Suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway to be temporarily extradited to US

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Peru's government issued an executive order Wednesday allowing the temporary extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American stu...

May 10, 2023