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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

Jan. 21, 2025 18:27 PM EST

President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group. Trump's...

Colombia's president will declare an emergency over deadly ELN attacks in the northeast

Jan. 21, 2025 14:19 PM EST

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday that he will declare a state of emergency over the guerrilla attacks in the northeast that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee their homes. In a message on X, Petro said that he will...

New US sanctions target Sudan's warring military leader

Jan. 16, 2025 14:55 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan's military Thursday, saying he was blocking humanitarian aid and bombing hospitals, schools and markets in a war against an armed rival that has created a widening famine and the world's largest displacement crisis. ...

Israel's Genesis Prize awarded to Argentinian President Javier Milei

Jan. 14, 2025 19:40 PM EST

JERUSALEM (AP) — Argentinian President Javier Milei has been awarded Israel’s prestigious 2025 Genesis Prize in recognition of his support of Israel, organizers announced Tuesday. During his year in office, Milei has announced he will move the embassy to Jerusalem, joining a...

Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted a planned Islamic State attack on a Shiite shrine

Jan. 11, 2025 12:42 PM EST

DAMASCUS (AP) — Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, state media reported Saturday. State news agency SANA reported, citing an unnamed...

Iran holds military drills as it faces rising economic pressures and Trump's return

Jan. 09, 2025 09:38 AM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is reeling from a cratering economy and stinging military setbacks across its sphere of influence in the Middle East. Its bad times are likely to get worse once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House with his policy of “maximum...

Explosive device kills 2 at a school near Nigeria's capital, police say

Jan. 06, 2025 18:48 PM EST

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — An improvised explosive device detonated at a school on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital Monday, killing two people who were handling the bomb and injuring two others, police said. The IED was suspected to have been brought to the Tsangagyar Sani Uthman...

New Orleans attacker had suspected bomb materials at home, reserved truck weeks ago, officials say

Jan. 03, 2025 21:03 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the vehicle used in the deadly attack more than six weeks earlier, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Friday. ...

FBI releases new video of a suspect planting a pipe bomb near DNC offices on eve of the Capitol riot

Jan. 02, 2025 19:13 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A harrowing chapter in American history remains shrouded in mystery: Who planted pipe bombs outside offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington on the eve of the attack on the Capitol? Hoping to generate new tips from the public, the...

Cuba frees man who participated in 1997 attacks on hotels in Havana, orchestrated by Cuban exiles

Dec. 31, 2024 15:22 PM EST

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities released a Salvadoran man who was convicted of participating in a string of hotel bombings on the island in 1997, a government-run news site said. The Cubadebate website reported Monday in a lengthy editorial that Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon was freed...