By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Iranian state television confirmed the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in Israel's strikes Friday morning. Gen. Hossein Salami was the chief of one of the country's most powerful centers, and his death was a ...
By RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn't believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies. The British national of Indian origin, Viswashkumar ...
By FOSTER KLUG and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — The Air India plane crash this week was one of India's worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on board and several people on the ground. Indian authorities said Friday the investigation into the crash was ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive Sunday for a Group of Seven summit in a country he has suggested should be annexed and as he wages a trade war with America's longstanding allies. Trump's calls to make Canada the 51st U.S. state have ...
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China's national security authorities in Hong Kong and the city's police launched their first publicly known joint operation, raiding the homes of six people on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security. The ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and unrestricted access for the delivery of desperately needed food to 2 million ...
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's first commercial flight in seven months took off Thursday from the capital and headed to the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where excited passengers hoped to reunite with friends, relatives and business associates. The ...
By GERALD IMRAY and MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in one of South Africa's poorest provinces rose to at least 78 on Thursday as a top official said rescue attempts in the first hours after the disaster had been "paralyzed" by a ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority is heading into a U.N. conference next week hoping to revive a long-defunct peace process. The authority, the Palestinians' internationally recognized representative, faces a difficult task. It is deeply ...
By JON GAMBRELL and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country's nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most ...
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran said it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. on Thursday immediately after its atomic watchdog agency censured Iran for failing to ...
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The owner of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican Republic whose roof collapsed in April and killed 236 people was arrested Thursday along with his sister. Antonio Espaillat and Maribel Espaillat have ...
By AJIT SOLANKI and RAJESH ROY Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — An Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad after takeoff Thursday, killing at least 240 people in one of India's worst airline disasters in decades, officials said. Vidhi ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped 1 million, military officials in Kyiv said Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion. The claim by the General Staff of ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government survived an attempt to dissolve Israel's parliament early Thursday morning, with most of his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners joining him in voting against a bill that would have forced them ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — President Javier Milei of Argentina received the $1 million Genesis prize in Jerusalem on Thursday in recognition of his support for Israel as it faces a mounting international isolation over the war in Gaza. Speaking in Spanish at the ceremony Thursday, Milei said: "In this ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland say 17 officers were injured during a second night of anti-immigrant violence in the town of Ballymena, where rioters threw bricks, bottles, petrol bombs and fireworks and set several vehicles and houses on ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war passed 55,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday, and hospitals said at least 21 people were killed while on their way to aid distribution ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Thursday on a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and the opening of all Israeli border crossings for deliveries of ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Days before his arrest outside his daughter's house in the outskirts of San Salvador, constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a "dictator" and a "despot" on live ...