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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu

May. 20, 2024 07:51 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas. ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, supreme leader's protege, dies at 63 in helicopter crash

May. 20, 2024 06:58 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protege of the country's supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels, launched a major attack on Israel and...

London court rules WikiLeaks founder Assange can appeal against an extradition order to the US

May. 20, 2024 07:48 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against extradition to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled on Monday — a decision that is likely to further drag out what has already been a long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and...

Michael Cohen faces more grilling as Trump's hush money trial enters its final stretch

May. 20, 2024 07:44 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors' last and star witness back on the stand Monday for more grilling before the former president's lawyers get their chance to put on a case. The landmark trial will kick back off in...

Ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse has been refloated and is moving back to port

May. 20, 2024 07:26 AM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated Monday and has begun slowly moving back to port. The Dali has remained at the collapse site since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s...

Taiwan's new President Lai in his inauguration speech urges China to stop its military intimidation

May. 20, 2024 05:57 AM EDT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech Monday that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory. “I hope that China...

Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site

May. 20, 2024 05:59 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and several other officials were found dead on Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. The...

US pediatricians group reverses decades-old ban on breastfeeding for those with HIV

May. 20, 2024 05:25 AM EDT

People with HIV can breastfeed their babies, as long as they are taking medications that effectively suppress the virus that causes AIDS, a top U.S. pediatricians’ group said Monday in a sharp policy change. The new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics reverses...

Modi's Hindu nationalist politics face a test as India holds fifth stage of national election

May. 20, 2024 06:50 AM EDT

AYODHYA, India (AP) — When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened a Hindu temple on the site of a razed mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in early 2024, he was making a bet on mixing Hindu nationalism and politics ahead of a national election in which he's seeking a rare third term. ...

Biden tells Morehouse graduates that scenes in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war break his heart, too

May. 20, 2024 02:26 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday offered his most direct recognition of U.S. students' anguish over the Israel-Hamas war, telling graduates of historically Black Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza break his heart, too. ...

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Who is Jacob Zuma, the former South African president disqualified from next week's election?

May. 20, 2024 08:03 AM EDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was barred Monday from running for Parliament in next week's national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics. The decision by the country’s highest court, the...

London court rules WikiLeaks founder Assange can appeal against an extradition order to the US

May. 20, 2024 07:48 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against extradition to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled on Monday — a decision that is likely to further drag out what has already been a long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and...

What happened in the UK's infected blood scandal from the 1970s to '90s?

May. 20, 2024 07:52 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry was published on Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. The...

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu

May. 20, 2024 07:51 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas. ...

The Latest | Trump's criminal trial set to enter final stretch as cross-examination of Cohen resumes

May. 20, 2024 07:49 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's hush money trial is entering its final stretch as the prosecution's star witness Michael Cohen returns to the stand on Monday. Cohen took the stand last week to lay out his version of the events that are at the heart of the case. Cohen placed Trump...

The Latest | Israeli defense minister says the military will expand operations into Rafah

May. 20, 2024 07:46 AM EDT

Israel's defense minister said Monday the military would expand its operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, while the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he's seeking arrest warrants for both Israeli and Hamas leaders in connection with their actions during the...

Michael Cohen faces more grilling as Trump's hush money trial enters its final stretch

May. 20, 2024 07:44 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors' last and star witness back on the stand Monday for more grilling before the former president's lawyers get their chance to put on a case. The landmark trial will kick back off in...

A U.K. court says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against extradition to the U.S. on espionage charges

May. 20, 2024 07:44 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — A U.K. court says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against extradition to the U.S. on espionage charges.

Inquiry slams successive UK governments for failures that killed thousands in infected blood scandal

May. 20, 2024 07:38 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country's public health service committed a “catalogue of failures” and knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found...

Philippines blames China for loss of giant clams in disputed shoal and urges environmental inquiry

May. 20, 2024 07:37 AM EDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines blamed Chinese fishermen on Monday for a massive loss of giant clams in a disputed shoal controlled by China's coast guard in the South China Sea and urged an international inquiry into the amount of environmental damage in the area. The...