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Lebanese worldwide fear for their homeland and loved ones as violence escalates

Oct. 06, 2024 01:31 AM EDT

It was a year ago when Jomana Siddiqui visited Lebanon, where her father was born — and is now buried. She planned to return there soon; this time, she thought, she would take her two teenage daughters. Instead, Siddiqui, who lives in California, now worries about relatives there....

2 Swedish teens are held in custody over blasts near Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen

Oct. 03, 2024 10:26 AM EDT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Swedish teenagers were jailed Thursday in pre-trial detention in connection with two predawn explosions in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen a day earlier. Prosecutors said investigators were establishing “whether the motive could be a terror...

Lebanon’s rescuers struggle to respond to Israeli offensive while under fire and using old equipment

Oct. 02, 2024 10:44 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen. About a dozen apartments had collapsed onto the hillside they once overlooked, burying more than 100...

Man charged in California courthouse explosion also accused of 3 arson fires

Oct. 01, 2024 21:39 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man has been hit with additional charges in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people, officials said Tuesday, including for three local arson fires. Nathaniel McGuire, 20, was charged by federal officials last week with maliciously damaging...

A man gets life in prison in Russia for a car bomb that wounded a writer

Sep. 30, 2024 10:11 AM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a man convicted over a car bombing that seriously wounded nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin to life in prison. Prosecutors said the May 2023 bombing in the Nizhny Novogorod region was conducted at the direction of Ukraine's...

A Russian court has sentenced a man convicted in the car bombing of a nationalist writer to life in prison

Sep. 30, 2024 07:31 AM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has sentenced a man convicted in the car bombing of a nationalist writer to life in prison.

North Korea has enough uranium to build a 'double-digit' number of bombs, Seoul's spy agency says

Sep. 26, 2024 01:51 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has likely enriched enough uranium to build a “double-digit” number of bombs and is making progress in its efforts to develop more powerful and accurate missiles targeting rival South Korea, Seoul’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday. ...

Pakistan brings arrested nurse before cameras to answer questions about her alleged bombing attempt

Sep. 25, 2024 05:12 AM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities brought a nurse they said was arrested over the weekend before state-run media on Wednesday to answer questions about her alleged suicide bombing attempt. The government-organized interview in Balochistan province was broadcast on national and local...

Is this war? The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is hard to define — or predict

Sep. 23, 2024 16:33 PM EDT

Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah is firing rockets and drones deep into northern Israel, setting buildings and cars alight. But no one is calling it a war...

Pakistani Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors

Sep. 23, 2024 05:49 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the restive northwest, as authorities said they were still trying to determine who was behind it. Most of the ambassadors and senior...