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Israeli leader Netanyahu faces growing pressure at home after Biden's Gaza proposal
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister faced growing pressure Saturday after U.S. President Joe Biden announced a proposed agreement to end the fighting in Gaza, with many Israelis urging Benjamin Netanyahu to embrace the deal but far-right allies threatening to collapse his government...
The Israeli army says it investigates itself. Where do those investigations stand?
JERUSALEM (AP) — Throughout its grinding seven-month war against Hamas, Israel has pledged to investigate a series of deadly events in which its military forces are suspected of wrongdoing. The commitment comes in the face of mounting claims — from human rights groups and the International...
Trump's attacks on US justice system after guilty verdict could be useful to autocrats like Putin
After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case, Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system, making unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial that echoed remarks from the Kremlin. “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” Trump said Friday,...
Black leaders call out Trump's criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict
NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It's the same...
Zelenskyy accuses China of pressuring other countries not to attend upcoming Ukraine peace talks
SINGAPORE (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused China on Sunday of helping Russia to disrupt an upcoming Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in Ukraine. Speaking at Asia’s premier security conference, Zelenskyy said that China is pressuring other...
Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country's top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation's president. The...
South Africa's ANC calls demands for President Ramaphosa to step down for coalition talks a 'no-go'
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's African National Congress party will not consider any demands from possible coalition partners that President Cyril Ramaphosa step down, a top official said Sunday, as the ANC attempted to present a united front after a stinging election result ended...
Most US students are recovering from pandemic-era setbacks, but millions are making up little ground
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Scattered elsewhere, students sat at laptop computers and got reading help from online tutors. For the...
A growing community of breast milk donors in Uganda gives mothers hope
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Early last year, Caroline Ikendi was in distress after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to remove a stillborn baby and save two others. Doctors said one of the preterm babies had a 2% chance of living. If the babies didn’t get breast milk — which...
California firefighters battle wind-driven wildfire east of San Francisco overnight
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire that began Saturday and continued burning early Sunday morning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said. The Corral Fire began Saturday...
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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment
JERUSALEM (AP) — Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. These are some of the conditions at Israel's only hospital dedicated to treating...
1 dead and 8 injured in Istanbul apartment building collapse
ISTANBUL (AP) — An apartment building collapsed in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday, killing one person and injuring eight, authorities said. The collapse renewed fears about the resilience of buildings in a city prone to earthquakes. TV images showed firefighters shifting...
Wisconsin prison warden quits amid lockdown, federal smuggling investigation
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden at a troubled Wisconsin prison has resigned amid lockdown conditions, an ongoing federal investigation and multiple inmate deaths. Waupun Correctional Institution Warden Randall Hepp announced his resignation on Tuesday, the Wisconsin State Journal...
The Latest | Mexico votes in historic elections marred by cartel violence and deep division
Mexicans vote Sunday in historic elections weighing gender, democracy and populism, as they chart the country’s path forward shadowed by cartel violence. With two women leading the contest, Mexico will likely elect its first female president — a major step in a country long...
A mass parachute jump over Normandy kicks off commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day
CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops who fought from D-Day beaches 80 years ago to...
A growing community of breast milk donors in Uganda gives mothers hope
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Early last year, Caroline Ikendi was in distress after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to remove a stillborn baby and save two others. Doctors said one of the preterm babies had a 2% chance of living. If the babies didn’t get breast milk — which...
Two Lebanese shepherds killed amid ongoing escalation along Lebanon-Israel border
BEIRUT (AP) — Two Lebanese shepherds were killed in an Israeli strike that hit their house in the town of Houla near the Lebanon-Israel border on Sunday, state media reported. Lebanon’s National News agency said the men were civilians who used to sell sheep milk to neighboring...
2 dead, 7 injured after shooting at a bar in suburban Pittsburgh
PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — A shooting at a bar in suburban Pittsburgh has left two people dead and seven others injured, police said Sunday. Allegheny County Police Department’s homicide unit said it has responded to a request for help by Penn Hills Police Department after the early...
2 dead, 7 injured after shooting at a bar in suburban Pittsburgh, police say
PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — 2 dead, 7 injured after shooting at a bar in suburban Pittsburgh, police say.World War II-era planes drop parachutists over Normandy, heralding a week of commemorations for 80th D-Day anniversary
CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — World War II-era planes drop parachutists over Normandy, heralding a week of commemorations for 80th D-Day anniversary.