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Trump attends UFC championship fight in New York, taking a break from Cabinet picks

Nov. 16, 2024 23:53 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump walked out to a roaring standing ovation just ahead of the start of the UFC pay-per-view card at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, combining two things close to his heart: fierce battles inside the octagon and New York City. ...

Israeli troops reach deepest point in Lebanon since Oct. 1 invasion, Lebanese media say

Nov. 16, 2024 17:04 PM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago before pulling back Saturday after battles with Hezbollah militants, Lebanese state media reported. The clashes and further Israeli bombardment came as Lebanese and Hezbollah...

Japan's minister visits Ukraine to stress mutual concern over North Korean troops

Nov. 16, 2024 11:55 AM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Japan's foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow's war in Ukraine. Takeshi Iwaya will meet his Ukrainian counterpart,...

AP PHOTOS: 1,000 days of war in Ukraine captured in images

Nov. 16, 2024 00:27 AM EST

A thousand days of war in Ukraine have been captured in stunning images, many of them horrifying, some of them poignant, others uplifting. Since Russia’s all-out invasion of its smaller neighbour on Feb. 24, 2022, Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II has cost tens...

Outside report calls on UCLA to develop clear plans and policies for major protests

Nov. 15, 2024 16:53 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California, Los Angeles should develop clear plans and policies, communication lines and decision-making authority in advance of major protests such as the large student protests against the Israel-Hamas war that shook the campus this spring, according to an...

Lebanon's prime minister asks Iran to help secure a cease-fire in Israel-Hezbollah war

Nov. 15, 2024 15:54 PM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah and appeared to urge it to convince the militant group to agree to a deal that could require it to pull back from the Israel-Lebanon border. ...

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 11 as Lebanon cease-fire efforts appear to gain steam

Nov. 15, 2024 15:20 PM EST

Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across Lebanon on Friday — including a mother, father and their three kids in a home — as rescue workers called off their search for survivors a day after an Israeli strike on a civil defense center killed 14 emergency workers and volunteers. ...

Myanmar airstrikes indiscriminately target civilians a rights group says in a new report

Nov. 15, 2024 13:38 PM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military has consistently targeted civilians and their communities as a form of collective punishment in the country’s southeast since the army seized power in early 2021, a rights group said in a report released Friday. Documented airstrikes on villages...

AP PHOTOS: An AP photographer captures a bomb falling on a building in his childhood neighborhood

Nov. 15, 2024 11:48 AM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — As a bomb descended on a multi-story apartment building in Beirut's Tayouneh area Friday, hundreds of onlookers gathered in the street at a traffic roundabout several hundred meters (yards) away. Among them was an Associated Press photographer. Hassan Ammar had donned...

A lion cub evacuated from Lebanon to a South African sanctuary escapes airstrikes and abuse

Nov. 15, 2024 08:33 AM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — When Sara first arrived at her rescuers' home, she was sick, tired, and was covered in ringworms and signs of abuse all over her little furry body. After spending two months in a small Beirut apartment with an animal rights group, the four-and-half-month-old lion cub...