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A Haiti gang attack on the reopening of a main hospital kills 2 reporters and a police officer

Dec. 24, 2024 23:35 PM EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two reporters were killed and several were wounded Tuesday in a gang attack in Haiti on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital, the country's online media association said. A police officer was also killed in the attack. Street...

Airstrikes target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan

Dec. 24, 2024 14:59 PM EST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan in rare airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan on Tuesday, dismantling a training facility and killing some insurgents, four security officials said. The strikes were carried out in...

Kosovo's ethnic Serb party says its ban from a parliamentary election is 'political violence'

Dec. 24, 2024 13:03 PM EST

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s main ethnic Serb party on Tuesday said its ban from the upcoming general election is “institutional and political violence” against the ethnic minority. Zlatan Elek of Srpska Lista, or Serb List, said the move was “done on the orders of...

Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder and weapons charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO's death

Dec. 23, 2024 18:33 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder and terror charges while his attorney complained that comments coming from New York’s mayor would make it tough to receive a fair trial. Luigi Mangione,...

Inside the state and federal charges against the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

Dec. 23, 2024 18:16 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A triptych of criminal charges paints a searing, sometimes disparate portrait of the man accused of ambushing and killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson as the executive arrived at a Manhattan hotel for his company’s annual investor conference. Filed...

German authorities received tipoffs last year about the suspect in Christmas market attack

Dec. 22, 2024 10:19 AM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the five people killed. Authorities have identified the suspect as a Saudi doctor who...

Hungary's Orbán blames immigration and EU for the deadly attack in Germany

Dec. 21, 2024 11:38 AM EST

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Saturday drew a direct link between immigration and an attack in Germany where a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people and injuring 200 others. During a rare...

France's anti-terrorism court convicts 8 people of involvement in the 2020 beheading of a teacher

Dec. 20, 2024 17:15 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris four years ago, a horrific death that shocked the country. Paty, 47, was killed by an Islamic extremist outside his...

US drops $10M terrorism bounty offered for capture of Syrian rebel leader who ousted Assad

Dec. 20, 2024 14:03 PM EST

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad earlier this month. The announcement followed a meeting in...

Murder and terrorism charges brought against Iranian officer in 2022 killing of American in Iraq

Dec. 20, 2024 13:29 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — An Iranian officer blamed for the 2022 killing of an American in Iraq has been charged in New York with federal murder and terrorism crimes, authorities announced on Friday. Federal authorities in New York City said Mohammad Reza Nouri, a captain in Iran’s...