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Month: January 2024

Missing part of Alaska Airlines plane that blew off mid-flight is found in Portland man’s backyard, investigators say

By Nouran Salahieh, Paradise Afshar, Pete Muntean and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — The missing part of the Alaska Airlines aircraft that blew off mid-flight has been found in a backyard in Portland, the National Transportation Safety Board announced. A Portland school teacher named Bob reached out to the agency after he found the missing

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Blinken meets Jordanian and Qatari leaders on new Mideast push to keep Gaza war from spreading

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — On another urgent diplomatic mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Arab partners to press for their help in tamping down resurgent fears that Israel’s three-month war against Hamas in Gaza could spread. In discussions with Qatar’s emir

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Israel says Hezbollah struck sensitive air traffic base in the north and warns of ‘another war’

By JULIA FRANKEL, SAMY MAGDY and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hezbollah has struck an air traffic control base in northern Israel, the Israeli military said Sunday, and warned of “another war” with the Iran-backed militant group. The increase in fighting across the border with Lebanon as Israel battles Hamas militants in Gaza

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Survivors struggle to rebuild their lives three months after Afghanistan’s devastating earthquake

By OMID HAQJO ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — A 6.3 magnitude quake on Oct. 7 killed and injured thousands of people in Afghanistan’s west. Three months on, survivors are struggling to rebuild their lives. Some families are living in canvas-colored tents in Zinda Jan district, the quake’s epicenter in the province of Herat, where every

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Islamic State group claims responsibility for a minibus explosion in Afghan capital that killed 5

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital that killed at least 5 people. The Sunni militant group said its members detonated an explosive device on the bus carrying Shiite Muslims late Saturday. Police spokesperson Khalid Zadran says 15 others were wounded in the attack

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Japanese prosecutors make their first arrest in the fundraising scandal sweeping the ruling party

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors have made their first arrest in connection with a major political slush fund scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s already unpopular government. Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on Sunday apprehended former vice-education minister Yoshitaka Ikeda on suspicion of failing to report fundraising proceeds

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Norwegian mass killer attempts to sue the state once more for an alleged breach of human rights

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Anders Behring Breivik, who slayed 77 people in an anti-Islamic bomb and gun rampage in 2011, is trying to sue the Norwegian state for breaching his human rights. Norway’s worst peacetime killer says his solitary confinement since being jailed in 2012 amounts to inhumane treatment under

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