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Rebels kill at least 4 people during an attack on a Central African Republic mining town

May. 12, 2024 11:32 AM EDT

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Armed rebels on Sunday attacked a Chinese-run gold mining town and killed at least four people in Central African Republic, authorities said. Maxime Balalu, a local government spokesperson, told The Associated Press that the Coalition of...

Pakistani police prevent pro-Palestinian protesters from moving toward US embassy in Islamabad

May. 10, 2024 12:34 PM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Friday prevented a pro-Palestinian rally by a radical Islamist party from moving toward the U.S. Embassy, where demonstrators wanted to stage a sit-in protesting Israel's strikes in Gaza. Police used batons on the...

Gunmen kill 7 barbers in Pakistan's volatile Baluchistan province

May. 09, 2024 02:41 AM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Attackers fatally shot seven barbers before dawn Thursday in a home in a volatile province in southwestern Pakistan, police and a government official said. The killings occurred near the port city of Gwadar in Baluchistan province, police official Mohsin Ali...

Families of the victims of attacks on displaced people in Congo mourn their dead

May. 08, 2024 11:56 AM EDT

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Families of the victims of last week's bomb attacks on two camps of displaced people in eastern Congo gathered to mourn their loved ones at a ceremony on Monday evening. During the ceremony in the city of Goma in the North Kivu Province, mourners sang and lit candles in tribute...

Bomb kills at least 12 people, including children, at two displacement camps in eastern Congo

May. 03, 2024 19:23 PM EDT

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Attacks on two camps for displaced people in eastern Congo's North Kivu province on Friday killed at least 12 people, including children, according to local officials, an aid group and the United Nations. The U.N. said in a statement that bombs hit two camps for...

Kremlin critics say Russia is targeting its foes abroad with killings, poisonings and harassment

May. 03, 2024 07:04 AM EDT

The military defector was killed in a hail of gunfire and then run over by a car in Spain. The opposition figure was struck repeatedly with a hammer in Lithuania. The journalist fell ill from a suspected poisoning in Germany. Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of...

M23 rebels seize key smartphone mineral mining town in eastern Congo

May. 02, 2024 19:40 PM EDT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda this week seized Rubaya, a mining town in eastern Congo known for producing a key mineral used in smartphones, the group said Thursday in a statement. In a statement shared with The Associated Press, a spokesperson...

Chinese scientist who published COVID-19 virus sequence allowed back in his lab after sit-in protest

May. 01, 2024 07:12 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post on Wednesday, just past midnight, that the medical center...

Iconic former Uruguayan President José Mujica is diagnosed with esophageal cancer

Apr. 29, 2024 18:33 PM EDT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Uruguay's former guerilla-turned-president, José Mujica, widely known as a leftist icon who transformed his small country into one of the most socially liberal in all of Latin America, said Monday that he has esophageal cancer. Mujica, 88, said he was...

Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer

Apr. 28, 2024 01:26 AM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious...