Truck carrying Indian soldiers falls into gorge, killing 16
By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — A truck carrying Indian soldiers has skidded off a road into a gorge in the…
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Police locate 2nd missing Ohio infant; suspect arrested
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Indianapolis have located the second of two missing infant brothers who were taken when their mother’s car was…
Continue ReadingUkraine president back in Kyiv, Russia keeps up attacks
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded another defiant note on his return to…
Continue ReadingMan convicted over German train knife attack that wounded 4
BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a man of attempted murder and bodily harm and sentenced him to 14 years in prison over a knife attack on…
Continue ReadingThe peculiar Russian missile ‘cemetery’ in eastern Ukraine
By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar “cemetery,” one that…
Continue ReadingJournalists in Somalia slam government restrictions, arrests
By OMAR FARUK Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Journalists in Somalia say the government is further restricting their work amid a significant…
Continue ReadingStrikes over pay disrupt Christmas travel in UK, France
LONDON (AP) — Air travelers are facing possible delays at U.K. airports as government employees who check passports go on strike. The walkout…
Continue ReadingTomahawks part of Japan’s record defense spending next year
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved record defense spending next year in preparation for the country…
Continue ReadingArmed Arab assailant rams car into Israeli police, shot dead
By MAHMOUD ILEAN Associated Press KFAR QASSEM, Israel (AP) — Israeli police have killed an Arab assailant who rammed into them with his car after…
Continue ReadingFrench serial killer ‘The Serpent’ freed from Nepal prison
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — French confessed serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in…
Continue ReadingN. Korea fires ballistic missiles after US-S. Korea drills
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on…
Continue ReadingZimbabwe to have dark Christmas amid power cuts, high prices
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has loosened restrictions on travel and gatherings with the threat from COVID-19…
Continue Reading‘A very hard road ahead’ for China as COVID-19 cases spiral
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press BAZHOU, China (AP) — Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the…
Continue ReadingSuicide bombing in Islamabad kills 2 suspects and policeman
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police say a powerful car bomb has exploded near a residential area in Pakistan’s capital…
Continue ReadingGreece: EU’s external border is hardening, attitudes are too
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press LYKOFI, Greece (AP) — Accompanied by a cloud of mosquitos, Police Capt. Konstantinos Tsolakidis and three…
Continue ReadingIdentity is complex for Lebanon’s Christian Palestinian camp
By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press DBAYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Tucked away in the hills north of Beirut below a Maronite monastery, Lebanon’s only…
Continue ReadingAsian shares higher in thin holiday trading
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Hong…
Continue ReadingJan. 6 takeaways: From Trump’s lies to the ‘unimaginable’
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee released its final report Thursday on the…
Continue ReadingMigrants near US border face cold wait for key asylum ruling
By MORGAN LEE and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Hundreds of migrants are gathered in unusually frigid cold temperatures…
Continue ReadingSex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone
By MICHAEL REZENDES and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press The video of a man raping his 9-year-old daughter was discovered in New Zealand in 2016 and…
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