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Israel launches new strikes against Hamas and promises ‘increasing military force’ after talks stall

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel launched new strikes against Hamas and promised 'increasing military force' after talks on on further hostage releases stalled. Early Friday morning, Israel's P...

Mar 17, 2025

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

WASHINGTON (AP) - Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch ...

Mar 17, 2025

M23 rebels withdraw from planned talks with Congo government, citing international sanctions

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo's mineral-rich east said Monday they were withdrawing peace talks this week with the Congolese government, saying that in...

Mar 17, 2025

A judge ordered a Brown University professor not be deported. She was sent back to Lebanon anyway.

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported, after he ordered that she not be removed until he could hear her case. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, had b...

Mar 17, 2025

Trump says he will talk to Putin on Tuesday as he pushes for end to Ukraine war

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as he pushes to end the war in Ukraine. The U.S. leader disclosed the upcoming conversation ...

Mar 16, 2025

US and Iran-backed Houthis both vow escalation after airstrikes target rebels in Yemen

CAIRO (AP) - The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels o...

Mar 16, 2025

Vatican releases first photograph of the pope in more than a month

ROME (AP) - The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Francis co-celebrating Mass in the hospital chapel. The photograph is taken from behind, and shows...

Mar 16, 2025

Netanyahu says he will seek to dismiss the head of Israel's internal security service

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will bring a vote to the government this week to dismiss the director of the country's internal security service, the S...

Mar 16, 2025

51 dead and dozens more injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) - A massive fire that broke out early Sunday in a nightclub in North Macedonia's eastern town of Kocani has killed 51 people and injured about 100 more, interior minister ...

Mar 16, 2025

Rebels in Yemen say death toll from US strikes has climbed to 31, including women and children

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Houthi rebel-run Health Ministry says the death toll from U.S. strikes on Yemen has climbed to 31, including women and children. Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesperson for th...

Mar 16, 2025