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Air Force to deploy Osprey aircraft in weeks following review over deadly crash

Sep. 18, 2024 14:53 PM EDT

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command is weeks away from deploying its fleet of CV-22B Osprey aircraft for counter terror operations after grounding its crews in the wake of a fatal crash last November in Japan, its top commander said Wednesday. In the...

UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation

Sep. 18, 2024 14:48 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The vote in the 193-member world body was 124-14, with 43...

Congo court sentences 3 Americans and 34 others to death on coup charges

Sep. 14, 2024 15:31 PM EDT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and...

Congress bestows its highest honor on the 13 troops killed during Afghanistan withdrawal

Sep. 10, 2024 15:42 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday presented Congress' highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as the politics of a presidential election swirled around the event. ...

Man in Denmark faces preliminary terrorism charges over arson at a Jewish woman's home

Sep. 10, 2024 07:29 AM EDT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 21-year-old man in Denmark was arrested on Tuesday for arson after allegedly setting a fire at a Jewish woman's home in Copenhagen, and he faced preliminary court charges under the country's terrorism laws that could lead to a life sentence. Preliminary...

Man charged with plotting shooting at a New York Jewish center on anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

Sep. 06, 2024 21:11 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal authorities announced Friday. ...

US charges Hamas leader, other militants in connection with Oct. 7 massacre in Israel

Sep. 03, 2024 21:06 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other senior militants in connection with the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in Israel, marking the first effort by American law enforcement to formally call out the masterminds of the attack....

Islamic State group claims Kabul suicide attack that killed at least 6

Sep. 03, 2024 12:11 PM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for this week's suicide bombing at a prosecutor's office in Kabul that killed at least six people and injured 13. The group said in a statement on its news outlet Amaq that the assailant detonated his...

A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital, killing at least 6 people and injuring 13

Sep. 02, 2024 11:56 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police in the Afghan capital say a suicide bomber carried out an attack Monday, killing at least six people and injuring 13 others. The blast took place in the southwestern Qala Bakhtiar neighborhood in Kabul, said Khalid Zadran, spokesman for the Kabul police...

At Venice Film Festival, Jude Law debuts ‘The Order’ about FBI manhunt for a domestic terrorist

Aug. 31, 2024 16:06 PM EDT

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival. An adaptation of Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s nonfiction book “The Silent Brotherhood,”...