By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A court in Serbia on Monday convicted the parents of a teenage boy who last year shot dead nine pupils and a school guard and wounded six more people in a school in central Belgrade.
The Higher Court in Belgrade sentenced Vladimir Kecmanovic, father of the boy, to 14 ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that saw the release of hundreds of captives and was brokered with the help of the United Arab Emirates, officials said Monday.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 189 Ukrainian ...
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge confirmed charges against five people in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction, and ordered preventive prison for two of them for having supplied him ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot won't appeal his 20-year prison sentence for drugging and raping her and allowing dozens of other men to rape her while she was unconscious, in a case that revolted France, his lawyer said Monday.
Dominique ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — When voters around the globe had their say in 2024, their message was often: "You're fired."
Some 70 countries that are home to half the world's population held elections this year, and in many incumbents were punished. From India and the ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 ...
By MAGDALENE MWANIKI Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa's largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya's capital.
Steve Collins, 74, was born and raised in western Kenya. By the age of 5, he ...
By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press
TBILISI, Goergia (AP) — Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili was formally inaugurated as president of Georgia on Sunday, cementing the ruling party's grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country's EU aspirations and a victory for ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean law enforcement officials requested a court warrant on Monday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree on Dec. 3 amounted to rebellion.
The ...
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's de facto leader said Sunday it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans to dissolve his Islamist group that led the country's insurgency at an anticipated national dialogue summit for the ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to implement the "toughest" anti-U.S. policy, state media reported Sunday, less than a month before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president.
Trump's return to the White House raises ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger jet burst into flames while landing at an airport in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179 people in one of the deadliest air disasters in that nation's history. There were only two survivors, officials ...
By SYLVAIN PLAZY and MARK CARLSON Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.
Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke said the inexpensive ...
ROME (AP) — Italy's parliament on Saturday approved the government's 2025 budget, worth a total of 30 billion euros ($31 billion) — more than half of that in tax cuts and social security benefits for low-income citizens.
The measures, pushed by the far-right cabinet headed by Premier ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but stopped short of acknowledging that Moscow was ...
By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An Argentine military officer who was arrested in Venezuela earlier this month has been charged with terrorism, Venezuela's attorney general said Friday.
In a statement published on Instagram, Attorney General Tarek William Saab ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo despite vehement protests by governing party lawmakers, further deepening the country's political crisis set off by ...
By BABACAR DIONE and WILSON MCMAKIN Associated Press
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's prime minister said on Friday that the government is closing "all foreign military bases," an announcement essentially aimed at France, the West African nation's former colonial power.
Although Prime ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained by the U.S. immigration department, a senior official said Friday.
The move is in response to President-elect Donald Trump's ...