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Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 5:39 AM EDT
|By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
The World Health Organization reported late Sunday the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press
Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark’s longest closure since World War II.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 3:40 AM EDT
An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail Monday in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2020 at 2:39 AM EDT
Multiple witnesses described the dog as a pit bull, but police could not confirm the breed.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 2:19 AM EDT
|By NICK PERRY Associated Press
Experts say a number of factors have helped New Zealand wipe out the disease, including its isolated location in the South Pacific that gave it vital time to see the devastating spread of the virus in other countries.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2020 at 8:39 AM EDT
Venice native Andrea Casetta told WITN what it's like to be living in Italy during the coronavirus outbreak.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2020 at 12:30 PM EST
Two U.S. officials say it was "highly likely" that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 4:09 AM EDT
|By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
A fire early Thursday burned down structures at Shuri Castle on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 2:42 AM EDT
|By ASIM TANVEER Associated Press
A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train’s brakes.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2019 at 4:35 AM EDT
|By NINIEK KARMINI and MARGIE MASON Associated Press
Indonesian investigators found plenty of blame to go around for a Boeing 737 Max crash that killed 189 people a year ago.
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Updated: Oct. 19, 2019 at 4:08 AM EDT
|By JILL LAWLESS and RAF CASERT Associated Press
Prime Minister Boris Johnson grudgingly asked the European Union late Saturday to delay Brexit after the British Parliament postponed a decision on whether to back his divorce deal.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2019 at 1:52 AM EDT
Terrifying moments were caught on camera in Argentina.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2019 at 1:38 AM EDT
|By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press
Among the reported deaths were those whose homes were buried in landslides. Other fatalities included people who got swept away by raging rivers.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 6:03 AM EDT
|By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the U.S. will send fighter jets and additional air defenses to the Saudis to help defend the kingdom against Iran amid the heightened tensions.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 5:19 AM EDT
|By MARK LEWIS and ELIAS MESERET Associated Press
The 2019 Nobel Peace has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 2:43 AM EDT
|By MEHMET GUZEL and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
No U.S. troops were hurt in Friday's explosion at the small U.S. outpost, and the artillery strike marked the first time a coalition base was in the line of fire since Turkey's offensive began.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2019 at 11:05 PM EDT
|By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
North Korea said Thursday it has carried out its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in three years, in an apparent bid to dial up pressure on the United States ahead of a weekend resumption of their nuclear diplomacy.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2019 at 2:46 AM EDT
|By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press
A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2019 at 2:11 AM EDT
|By EDITH M. LEDERER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
Fallout from the Sept. 14 attacks is still reverberating as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2019 at 8:44 PM EDT
|By ROB GILLIES Associated Press
Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign for national elections was hit Wednesday by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a costume party in 2001.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2019 at 5:24 AM EDT
|By RENATA BRITO Associated Press
A charity rescue ship with 82 migrants aboard said Saturday it has received permission to sail to a tiny southern Italian island, in a possible sign Italy's hard line against such vessels might be easing somewhat under the new government.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2019 at 4:00 AM EDT
|By NANNAPAT PUROD Associated Press
Pope Francis will visit Thailand and Japan in November in a visit expected to highlight his call for complete nuclear disarmament and honor the small Catholic communities in each country.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2019 at 8:33 PM EDT
|By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
In a session that ran past midnight, Parliament enacted a law to block a no-deal Brexit next month, ordered the government to release private communications about its Brexit plans and rejected Johnson's call for a snap election to break the political deadlock.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2019 at 6:46 AM EDT
Pope Francis says he was stuck for 25 minutes in a Vatican elevator and had to be rescued by firefighters.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2019 at 8:45 PM EDT
North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country's ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2019 at 3:39 PM EDT
Egan Bernal has become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France as the three-week race ended with the 21st and final stage on the Champs-Elysees.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2019 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By ROB GILLIES and IAN HARRISON Associated Press
Gunfire broke out and a stampede ensued as fans celebrated at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Raptors, leaving four people shot and thousands fleeing less than a block from where the players and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat on stage.
Updated: May. 10, 2019 at 3:27 PM EDT
Meghan was the fastest rising girl's name for 2018, moving from number 1,404 in 2017 to 703.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2019 at 6:56 AM EDT
The funds, from the Peter's Pence collections, will be distributed among 27 projects promoted by 16 Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, Peter's Pence said in a statement.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2019 at 6:25 AM EDT
Pope Francis celebrated Easter Mass on Sunday, marking the most joyful moment of the year for the faithful even as the church faced a fresh round of bloodshed targeting Christians in Sri Lanka.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM EDT
A public veneration of the crown is normally part of the ceremonies leading up to Easter at Notre Dame. But because of this week's devastating fire at Notre Dame, the crown was shown at a service Friday evening at the nearby Saint-Sulpice Church.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2019 at 7:41 AM EDT
A lawyer representing jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the Ecuadorian government has been spreading lies about his behavior inside its embassy in London.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2019 at 8:21 PM EDT
|By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press
It marks the first sweep of arrests to target individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2019 at 3:56 AM EDT
|By Philip Issa
Elimination of the last IS stronghold in Baghouz marks the end of the militants' self-declared caliphate, which at its height blanketed large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2019 at 6:18 AM EDT
|By Nick Perry and Juliet Williams
Hundreds of Muslim men at the park sat in socks or bare feet. One man in the front row was in a Christchurch Hospital wheelchair.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2019 at 8:20 AM EDT
A group of big internet companies says it has added more than 800 different versions of the New Zealand mosque shooting video to a shared database used to block violent terrorist images and videos.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2019 at 3:02 AM EST
President Donald Trump has departed Vietnam after failing to reach an agreement during his second nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2019 at 8:07 AM EST
A Vatican spokesman says the "painful" news of Cardinal George Pell's conviction for molesting choirboys in Australia has shocked many people, but adds that the prelate "has reiterated his innocence and has the right to defend himself" until the last level of justice.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2019 at 4:14 AM EST
President Donald Trump will head into his second meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un lowering expectations for Pyongyang's denuclearization while eager to declare a flashy victory to offset the political turmoil he faces at home.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 10:15 AM EST
|By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
Catholic religious orders from around the world apologized Tuesday for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family-like communities blinded them to sexual abuse and led to misplaced loyalties, denial and cover-ups.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2019 at 6:22 AM EST
With Brexit just 47 days away, the British government is asking lawmakers to give Prime Minister Theresa May more time to rework her divorce deal with the European Union.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2019 at 9:26 AM EST
The European Union says that a newly formed "International Contact Group" of European and Latin American countries will hold its first meeting in Uruguay on Thursday to address the crisis in Venezuela.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2019 at 9:00 AM EST
Russia's foreign minister says that the U.S. pullout from a pivotal nuclear arms control pact has further upset strategic stability.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2019 at 10:25 AM EST
Police say a bombing of a cathedral on a southern Philippine island has killed 20 people, lowering an earlier announced toll that police say was incorrect due to double counting.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2019 at 9:38 AM EST
The Vatican received information in 2015 and 2017 that an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis had taken naked selfies, exhibited "obscene" behavior and had been accused of misconduct with seminarians, his former vicar general told The Associated Press, undermining Vatican claims that allegations of sexual abuse were only made a few months ago.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2019 at 9:36 AM EST
Five teens died inside an "escape room" attraction in Poland on Friday from carbon monoxide asphyxiation caused by smoke from a fire that broke out in an adjacent room, investigators said on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2018 at 9:39 AM EST
Britain's defense secretary has said that the country could establish new military bases in the Caribbean and Far East after Britain leaves the European Union.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2018 at 8:41 AM EST
The Vatican has taken testimony from a man who says ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11, evidence that the initial case against the retired archbishop has expanded dramatically to include serious allegations of misconduct.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2018 at 4:09 AM EST
New Mexico authorities say an autopsy performed on the 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody shows he had the flu.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2018 at 3:41 AM EST
Indonesian authorities are asking people near an island volcano to avoid the coast while eruptions and weather and sea conditions are monitored for tsunami risks.