By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria will toughen its gun laws, its chancellor said Monday, after a 21-year-old former student killed nine students and a teacher at his school last week in what's considered the Alpine country's deadliest post-war ...
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Israel's blistering attack with warplanes and drones against Iran's nuclear and military structure has sparked an open conflict between the two long-time foes that threatens to spiral into a wider, more dangerous regional ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief said Israel's warfare in Gaza is inflicting "horrifying, unconscionable suffering" on Palestinians and urged government leaders on Monday to "wake up" and exert pressure to bring an end to the conflict. "The facts ...
BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012. The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court also established the particular gravity of the ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and ALFONSO NQUNJANA Associated Press MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a reminder of a terrible story of a person being killed. But the crosses, nearly ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long identified Iran as its ...
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Iranian state television confirmed the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in Israel's strikes Friday morning. Gen. Hossein Salami was the chief of one of the country's most powerful centers, and his death was a ...
By RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn't believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies. The British national of Indian origin, Viswashkumar ...
By FOSTER KLUG and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — The Air India plane crash this week was one of India's worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on board and several people on the ground. Indian authorities said Friday the investigation into the crash was ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive Sunday for a Group of Seven summit in a country he has suggested should be annexed and as he wages a trade war with America's longstanding allies. Trump's calls to make Canada the 51st U.S. state have ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and unrestricted access for the delivery of desperately needed food to 2 million ...
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China's national security authorities in Hong Kong and the city's police launched their first publicly known joint operation, raiding the homes of six people on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security. The ...
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's first commercial flight in seven months took off Thursday from the capital and headed to the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where excited passengers hoped to reunite with friends, relatives and business associates. The ...
By GERALD IMRAY and MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in one of South Africa's poorest provinces rose to at least 78 on Thursday as a top official said rescue attempts in the first hours after the disaster had been "paralyzed" by a ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority is heading into a U.N. conference next week hoping to revive a long-defunct peace process. The authority, the Palestinians' internationally recognized representative, faces a difficult task. It is deeply ...
By JON GAMBRELL and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country's nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most ...
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran said it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. on Thursday immediately after its atomic watchdog agency censured Iran for failing to ...
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The owner of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican Republic whose roof collapsed in April and killed 236 people was arrested Thursday along with his sister. Antonio Espaillat and Maribel Espaillat have ...
By AJIT SOLANKI and RAJESH ROY Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — An Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad after takeoff Thursday, killing at least 240 people in one of India's worst airline disasters in decades, officials said. Vidhi ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped 1 million, military officials in Kyiv said Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion. The claim by the General Staff of ...