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South Korean anti-corruption agency receives new court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon

Jan. 07, 2025 05:51 AM EST

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says it has received a new court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after its previous attempt was blocked by the presidential security service last week. The Corruption Investigation Office for...

US eases restrictions on Syria while keeping sanctions in place

Jan. 06, 2025 15:39 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Monday eased some restrictions on Syria's transitional government to allow the entry of humanitarian aid after Islamist insurgents ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad last month. The U.S. Treasury issued a general license, lasting six months, that...

Hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions are in limbo as a DC court awaits Trump's White House return

Jan. 06, 2025 11:19 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now Donald Trump's return to power has thrown into question the future of the more...

Residents and officials say rebels have seized 2 key towns in eastern Congo

Jan. 06, 2025 09:10 AM EST

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels with the M23 group have seized two key towns in eastern Congo as they advance in the volatile region, civil society and a local politician said Monday, as the security and humanitarian crisis deepened. The rebels over the past week took Katale and Masisi...

Syria's foreign minister visits Qatar as new authorities seek regional and global diplomatic ties

Jan. 05, 2025 10:25 AM EST

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's new foreign minister met with his Qatari counterpart and Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Sunday, as Syria’s new de facto authorities under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, establish diplomatic ties with regional and global governments. Foreign...

Blast in southwestern Pakistan kills 1 person and wounds 35

Jan. 04, 2025 11:23 AM EST

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A blast from an improvised explosive device killed one person and wounded 35 others on Saturday in Pakistan's southwestern city of Turbat, a police official said. Footage from the scene showed vehicles moving through the city before an explosion and flames...

South Korea's impeached president defies warrant after hourslong standoff

Jan. 03, 2025 08:57 AM EST

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff on Friday during which he defied their attempt to detain him. It’s the latest confrontation in a political crisis that has paralyzed South Korean...

Protesters in Syria demand justice for disappeared activists and accountability from all factions

Jan. 01, 2025 16:42 PM EST

DOUMA, Syria (AP) — Protesters in Syria held a sit-in Wednesday demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose fate remains one of the most haunting mysteries of the country's 13-year civil war. On Dec. 9, 2013, gunmen stormed the Violation...

Thousands march in Bangladesh calling for the ousted prime minister's prosecution

Dec. 31, 2024 12:12 PM EST

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of people led by students rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday, calling for the prosecution of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and those responsible for hundreds of deaths in a mass uprising against her government in July. The...

Pakistani security forces suffer deadliest year for a decade while fighting insurgency, report finds

Dec. 31, 2024 08:47 AM EST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces in 2024 suffered the highest casualties in nearly a decade while battling insurgency, an Islamabad-based research group said. The Center for Research and Security Studies said in its report Tuesday that this year was the deadliest...