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North Korea has enough uranium to build a 'double-digit' number of bombs, Seoul's spy agency says

Sep. 26, 2024 01:51 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has likely enriched enough uranium to build a “double-digit” number of bombs and is making progress in its efforts to develop more powerful and accurate missiles targeting rival South Korea, Seoul’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday. ...

Pakistan brings arrested nurse before cameras to answer questions about her alleged bombing attempt

Sep. 25, 2024 05:12 AM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities brought a nurse they said was arrested over the weekend before state-run media on Wednesday to answer questions about her alleged suicide bombing attempt. The government-organized interview in Balochistan province was broadcast on national and local...

Is this war? The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is hard to define — or predict

Sep. 23, 2024 16:33 PM EDT

Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah is firing rockets and drones deep into northern Israel, setting buildings and cars alight. But no one is calling it a war...

Pakistani Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors

Sep. 23, 2024 05:49 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the restive northwest, as authorities said they were still trying to determine who was behind it. Most of the ambassadors and senior...

Rival protesters clash in Bolivia as ex-President Evo Morales leads a march to the capital

Sep. 22, 2024 21:21 PM EDT

EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's pro-government supporters and security forces confronted protesters loyal to former president Evo Morales in a street melee Sunday, the second such violent escalation this week as fears grew of further unrest in the Andean nation. The protesters...

‘Ticking time bomb’: Those who raised suspicions about Trump suspect question if enough was done

Sep. 22, 2024 12:57 PM EDT

The more Chelsea Walsh talked to the eccentric fellow American who seemed to pop up in every square and cobblestone street of Ukraine’s capital, the more she got creeped out. Walsh was in Kyiv as a nurse and aid worker in the early days of the war in Ukraine. Ryan Routh says he was...

Bomb targeting foreign diplomats’ convoy kills policeman in Pakistan’s restive northwest

Sep. 22, 2024 11:56 AM EDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside blast caused by an improvised explosive device, targeting a convoy of foreign diplomats, killed a policeman and injured four others, an official said Sunday. The diplomats were traveling to a tourist area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which...

11-year-old charged after police say suspicious device brought on school bus in Maine

Sep. 20, 2024 13:06 PM EDT

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (AP) — An 11-year-old boy has been accused of making a threat after police found what they described as a suspicious device in his home that had been brought onto a school bus in Maine. The bus driver stopped the bus and evacuated it Thursday afternoon in New...

Supreme Court justices have a job for life. But some left the court to make their lasting mark

Sep. 19, 2024 00:24 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 1941, James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key role in planning the nation's wartime economy. Americans have become accustomed in recent decades to justices who...

False reports of explosives found in a car near a Trump rally spread online

Sep. 18, 2024 12:53 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Long Island worked quickly on Wednesday to publicly knock down social media posts falsely reporting that explosives had been found in a car near former President Donald Trump’s planned rally in New York. The false reports of an...