Category Archives: World

Blast at building storing explosives in Myanmar kills more than 45 people
BANGKOK (AP) - A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed more than 45 people, according to rescue workers and independent media...
May 31, 2026

Israeli army captures strategic castle in Lebanon in deepest incursion into country in 26 years
BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century, the mi...
May 30, 2026

Claude Lemieux's brain will be donated to Boston University's CTE Center, his family says
Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter...
May 30, 2026

US says it disabled another commercial ship trying to breach blockade and reach Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has stopped another merchant vessel trying to break through the American blockade of Iranian ports, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation told The Associa...
May 30, 2026

WHO chief visits epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as cases outpace response
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster...
May 30, 2026

Rescuers free 4 men who had been trapped in a flooded Laos cave, search for 2 still missing
BANGKOK (AP) - Rescue workers in Laos said Saturday they have safely evacuated four villagers trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, the day after another one was successfully extracted. Two men remai...
May 30, 2026

Federal judge says New Hampshire must make it easier to prove citizenship when registering to vote
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don't have the documents to prov...
May 29, 2026

3 climbers who fell near treacherous pass on Alaska’s Mount McKinley are dead, 1 rescued
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Three climbers on Alaska's Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America's tallest peak have died, a Latvian mountaineering group announced Friday. A fourth cl...
May 29, 2026

Former head of Iowa school district sentenced to 2 years for falsely claiming to be a US citizen
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The former superintendent of Iowa's largest school district who was arrested last year in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown was sentenced Friday to two years in ...
May 29, 2026

Louisiana’s Legislature has passed a new congressional map to give the GOP another seat
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state's two majority-Black House districts, b...
May 29, 2026