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Israel faces new condemnation over Rafah strikes, which local health officials say killed 45

May. 27, 2024 09:22 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel faced new condemnation on Monday for strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that local health officials said killed at least 45 Palestinians, including displaced people living in tents that were engulfed by fire. Israel has faced surging...

EU, Israel in war of words as ties nosedive ahead of Spain, Ireland recognizing Palestinian state

May. 27, 2024 09:29 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — Relations between the European Union and Israel took a nosedive on the eve of the diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state by EU members Ireland and Spain, with Madrid suggesting sanctions should be considered against Israel for its continued attacks in the southern Gaza city...

Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states

May. 27, 2024 09:47 AM EDT

VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central...

At least 2,000 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide. These are some challenges rescuers face

May. 27, 2024 06:57 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — The Papua New Guinea government said more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive in a landslide in the South Pacific island nation, after the side of a mountain came down in the early hours of Friday morning when the village of Yambali was asleep. ...

Closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict? Major week looms in Trump hush money trial

May. 27, 2024 09:16 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The testimony in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial is all wrapped up after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, meaning the case heads into the pivotal final stretch of closing arguments, jury deliberations and possibly a verdict. It's...

Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don't. A growing movement wants that to change

May. 27, 2024 02:16 AM EDT

FAR WESTERN UKRAINE (AP) — Precious few choices are available to Alexander, a 26-year-old Russian soldier, since his capture: Clothes, meals and the hours of his day are rigidly accounted for in the camp for prisoners of war. But Ukraine allows Alexander to call home to his family...

A woman could be Mexico's next leader. Millions of others continue in shadows as domestic workers

May. 27, 2024 09:55 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Concepcion Alejo is used to being invisible. Alejo, 43, touches her face up with makeup on a Tuesday morning, and steps out of her tiny apartment on the fringes of Mexico City. She walks until the cracked gravel outside her home turns into cobblestones, and the...

Armenians, Hmong and other groups feel US race and ethnicity categories don't represent them

May. 27, 2024 09:11 AM EDT

The federal government recently reclassified race and ethnicity groups in an effort to better capture the diversity of the United States, but some groups feel the changes miss the mark. Hmong, Armenian, Black Arab and Brazilian communities in the U.S. say they are not represented...

Major retailers are offering summer deals to entice inflation-weary shoppers

May. 27, 2024 08:40 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who spend Memorial Day scouting sales online and in stores may find more reasons to celebrate the return of warmer weather. Major retailers are stepping up discounts heading into the summer months, hoping to entice inflation-weary shoppers into opening their wallets. ...

Military labs do the detective work to identify soldiers decades after they died in World War II

May. 27, 2024 04:51 AM EDT

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — Generations of American families have grown up not knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who died while serving their country in World War II and other conflicts. But a federal lab tucked away above the bowling alley at Offutt Air...

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North Korea appears to have fired a missile into the sea, Japan and South Korea say

May. 27, 2024 10:15 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — Japan says North Korea has launched a missile into the sea and has alerted residents on Okinawa island to seek shelter. South Korea also said Monday that it detected North Korea firing an unidentified projectile toward its southwestern sea. No further details have...

South Korea says North Korea has launched a missile into the sea, hours after revealing plans to launch spy satellite

May. 27, 2024 10:11 AM EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has launched a missile into the sea, hours after revealing plans to launch spy satellite.

Japan says North Korea appears to have fired a missile, alerting residents on Okinawa island to take shelter

May. 27, 2024 10:03 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Japan says North Korea appears to have fired a missile, alerting residents on Okinawa island to take shelter.

Papua New Guinea says Friday's landslide buried more than 2,000 people and formally asks for help

May. 27, 2024 10:01 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday's landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is roughly triple the...

Ukraine's Zelenskyy gets more air defense missiles from Spain to fight deadly Russian glide bombs

May. 27, 2024 09:58 AM EDT

MADRID (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defense missiles to help fight the about 3,000 bombs that he said Russia launches every month at Ukraine as the war stretches into its third year. However, Ukraine still...

A woman could be Mexico's next leader. Millions of others continue in shadows as domestic workers

May. 27, 2024 09:55 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Concepcion Alejo is used to being invisible. Alejo, 43, touches her face up with makeup on a Tuesday morning, and steps out of her tiny apartment on the fringes of Mexico City. She walks until the cracked gravel outside her home turns into cobblestones, and the...

Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states

May. 27, 2024 09:47 AM EDT

VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central...

Suspect identified in stabbings at a Massachusetts theater and a McDonald’s

May. 27, 2024 09:36 AM EDT

BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man will be arraigned Tuesday on multiple charges including assault with the intent to murder after six people, including four girls at a movie theater, were stabbed in separate attacks, officials said. Jared Ravizza, 26, of Chilmark, a town...

EU, Israel in war of words as ties nosedive ahead of Spain, Ireland recognizing Palestinian state

May. 27, 2024 09:29 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — Relations between the European Union and Israel took a nosedive on the eve of the diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state by EU members Ireland and Spain, with Madrid suggesting sanctions should be considered against Israel for its continued attacks in the southern Gaza city...

Israel faces new condemnation over Rafah strikes, which local health officials say killed 45

May. 27, 2024 09:22 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel faced new condemnation on Monday for strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that local health officials said killed at least 45 Palestinians, including displaced people living in tents that were engulfed by fire. Israel has faced surging...