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UK court says Assange can't be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty

Mar. 26, 2024 20:40 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of...

Pakistani security forces kill 4 militants in operations in northwest bordering Afghanistan

Mar. 26, 2024 02:34 AM EDT

DERA ISLAMIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan security forces killed four insurgents in an overnight raid on a militant hideout in the country’s northwest bordering Afghanistan, the military said Tuesday. Troops found a cache of weapons, ammunition, and explosives in the...

Putin says Islamic extremists raided concert hall but attack masterminds are yet to be found

Mar. 25, 2024 17:30 PM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who killed 139 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall are “radical Islamists,” but he repeated his accusation that Ukraine could have played a role despite Kyiv's strong denials. Two days after the Islamic State's...

Russian massacre suspects' homeland is plagued by poverty and religious strife

Mar. 25, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. ...

Pakistani trade delegation visits Kabul in sign of easing tensions over cross-border attacks

Mar. 25, 2024 07:51 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A delegation from Pakistan's Ministry of Commerce arrived in Kabul on Monday to meet its Afghan counterparts to discuss how to improve trade relations, after tensions have risen over cross-border militant attacks. Last week, Pakistan’s military carried out rare...

Putin says gunmen who raided Moscow concert hall tried to escape to Ukraine. Kyiv denies involvement

Mar. 24, 2024 00:40 AM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — The suburban Moscow music hall where gunmen opened fire on concertgoers was a blackened, smoldering ruin Saturday as the death toll in the attack surpassed 130 and Russian authorities arrested four suspects. President Vladimir Putin claimed they were captured while fleeing to...

What we know after the Islamic State group claims responsibility for Moscow massacre

Mar. 23, 2024 16:07 PM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people, the most deadly attack in Russia in years. Though the U.S. says it has evidence backing up the jihadists' claim, that didn't stop Moscow and...

The Moscow concert hall attack wasn't the first during Putin's 25-year rule

Mar. 23, 2024 14:05 PM EDT

The attack on a Moscow concert hall where armed men opened fire and set the building ablaze, killing at least 133 people, was the latest in a long series of bombings and sieges that have unsettled and outraged Russians during Vladimir Putin's nearly quarter-century as either prime minister or...

Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility

Mar. 22, 2024 21:15 PM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly...

A roadside bomb targeting security forces kills 2 soldiers and wounds 15 in Pakistan

Mar. 21, 2024 05:47 AM EDT

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb exploded near a security convoy in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing two soldiers and wounding 15 others, officials said. The attack happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Khyber...