Latest Violence News

NATO to send 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests

May. 30, 2023 17:30 PM EDT

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded, the alliance announced Tuesday. The latest violence in the region has stirred fear of a renewal of...

China expresses support for Serbia in renewed Kosovo clashes involving NATO troops

May. 30, 2023 05:58 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday expressed its support for Serbia’s efforts to “safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity” following renewed violence between ethnic Serbs and NATO peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. China’s ruling Communist Party has long been a critic...

Massachusetts beach reopens on Memorial Day after pair of shootings

May. 29, 2023 12:52 PM EDT

REVERE, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts State Police temporarily closed Revere Beach because of a pair of shootings that injured three people as violence erupted over the holiday weekend. The popular beach reopened on Memorial Day, hours after bedlam erupted Sunday evening in Revere,...

Jewish settlers erect religious school in evacuated West Bank outpost after Israel repeals ban

May. 29, 2023 11:17 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank said Monday they erected a religious school in a dismantled outpost after Israel's government lifted a ban on settlements in several evacuated areas in the northern part of the territory. Also Monday, a Palestinian...

India's northeast remains on edge after ethnic clashes as home minister plans visit

May. 29, 2023 10:57 AM EDT

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Shootings and arson continued Monday in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, where clashes between security forces and tribal insurgents the previous day killed five people, media reports said. The state, which borders Myanmar, has been roiled by violence...

US cities hope crime strategies keep homicide numbers dropping and prevent summer surge

May. 26, 2023 18:08 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — An expected bump in violent crime this summer has mayors and police officials around the U.S. rolling out familiar strategies of making officers more visible and engaging with community groups, in some cases leaning on civilians to enforce curfews and keep the peace. ...

Serbian border troops on high alert after ethnic clashes inside Kosovo

May. 26, 2023 16:35 PM EDT

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes inside Kosovo between police and ethnic Serbs that injured more than a dozen people. Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, who are a majority in that part of the country, had...

AP PHOTOS: A proliferation of gold mines in Venezuela offers grueling, dangerous work

May. 26, 2023 09:41 AM EDT

EL CALLAO, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is known to have the world’s largest oil reserves, but its soil holds another valuable resource: gold. The government in 2016 established a huge mining development zone stretching across the middle of Venezuela to diversify its revenue....

Rare James M. Cain story 'Blackmail' published for first time

May. 26, 2023 00:15 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The characters are pure noir: Pat, a “dark, heavily handsome thick-shouldered" young man; Myra, a “cheesecakey” woman whose “thick blonde hair" fell “off her bare head to brilliant brassy effect.” And they talk the way crime fiction characters used to...

Federal agents, prosecutors going after machine-gun conversion devices in Tennessee

May. 22, 2023 21:42 PM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Twenty-six people in Tennessee have been recently convicted or face charges for possessing “switches,” devices that convert semi-automatic firearms into a machine guns, which can be made with 3-D printers and bought on the internet, federal law enforcement officials said...