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Oklahoma prosecutors charge fifth member of anti-government group in Kansas women's killings

Apr. 24, 2024 19:25 PM EDT

GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors charged a fifth member of an anti-government group on Wednesday with killing and kidnapping two Kansas women. Paul Jeremiah Grice, 31, was charged in Texas County with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and...

Biden meets 4-year-old Abigail Edan, an American who was held hostage by Hamas

Apr. 24, 2024 18:43 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of the war. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House meeting with Abigail and her family...

Hamas releases video showing well-known Israeli-American hostage

Apr. 24, 2024 18:21 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza. The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas’...

Nepal's president asks visiting Qatari emir to help free student held hostage by Hamas

Apr. 24, 2024 06:14 AM EDT

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's president asked the emir of Qatar, who is on a two-day visit to the South Asian country, to help release a Nepali student held hostage by Palestinian militant group Hamas, officials said on Wednesday. President Ram Chandra Poudel met with Sheik Tamim...

Qatari emir in Nepal, expected to tackle migrant conditions and Nepali student held hostage by Hamas

Apr. 23, 2024 09:56 AM EDT

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The emir of Qatar landed in Nepal Tuesday on his first-ever visit to the South Asian country, after visiting Bangladesh and the Philippines, where improving migrant workers' conditions in the Gulf state and a Nepali student still held hostage by Hamas are expected to be on...

Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76

Apr. 21, 2024 21:36 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his...

'Great bravery and resolve.' Reaction to the death of Terry Anderson, AP reporter held hostage

Apr. 21, 2024 20:25 PM EDT

A courageous correspondent who reported from the world's trouble spots. A supporter of humanitarian causes. A good friend. Those were among the reactions to the death of Terry Anderson, the former chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press. Anderson was one of...

Former Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson has died; was held hostage for nearly 7 years in Lebanon

Apr. 21, 2024 17:13 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson has died; was held hostage for nearly 7 years in Lebanon.

Haiti's former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince

Apr. 20, 2024 00:26 AM EDT

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Haïtien was abandoned as a capital during the waning years of the French colonial era and again when the Kingdom of...

Bond denied for 4 'God's Misfits' defendants in the killing of 2 Kansas women

Apr. 18, 2024 11:54 AM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge ordered public defenders to represent four members of an anti-government group who appeared in court Wednesday on charges of kidnapping and killing two Kansas women. The judge also entered not-guilty pleas and denied bail for Tifany Adams, 54,...