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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they board rickety wooden boats painted sky blue to blend with the ocean to try to …
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By DÁNICA COTO
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5/13/22
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A young girl hugs a beloved scraggly gray stuffed cat at a reception center for the hundreds of civilians evacuated from a Mariupol steel works plant after weeks of bombardment by Russian forces. …
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5/13/22
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian soldier is scheduled to go on trial Friday in the killing of an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, marking the first time since the start of the invasion that a member of …
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By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKI and RICHARD LARDNER
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5/13/22
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MOSCOW (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow court Friday for a hearing on whether her detention will be extended.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was detained at the …
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5/13/22
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Before acknowledging its first domestic COVID-19 cases, North Korea spent 2 1/2 years rejecting outside offers of vaccines and steadfastly claiming that its superior …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG
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5/13/22
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the “pee” in peony.
Rather, they're putting pee ON peonies.
Environmental engineering professors Nancy …
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
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5/13/22
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LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s second-biggest political party says it will block the formation of a working legislature in Belfast on Friday and will keep up the boycott until the U.K. …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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5/13/22
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NEW DELHI (AP) — With one brother president, another prime minister and three more family members cabinet ministers, it appeared that the Rajapaksa clan had consolidated its grip on power in Sri …
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By DAVID RISING and KRUTIKA PATHI
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5/13/22
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TAVRIISKE, Ukraine (AP) — There’s dancing in the garden, and ball games. A soft wind blows, cooling the spring sunshine. But there is an ominous accompaniment to the music and laughter: the …
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By ELENA BECATOROS
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5/13/22
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority on Thursday rejected an Israeli request to hold a joint investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, saying it would not …
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5/12/22
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that six people died and hundreds of thousands of others fell ill amid an explosive spread of fever across the nation, a day after it acknowledged …
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM
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5/12/22
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples such as cooking oil, chicken, eggs and milk on Thursday. Scores of alarmed Iranians waited in …
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By ISABEL DEBRE
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5/12/22
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LONDON (AP) — Greg Norman's brushing off of Jamal Khashoggi's killing as a “mistake” has been condemned by the fiancee of the late Washington Post columnist.
The former No. 1 golfer is …
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5/12/22
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired an unidentified missile toward the sea.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says in a statement the North Korean missile flew …
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5/12/22
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An Al Jazeera correspondent who was shot dead on Wednesday during an Israeli raid in the West Bank was a highly respected journalist in the Middle East whose unflinching coverage was known to …
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By AYA BATRAWY
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5/12/22
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden called Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday to congratulate him over his apparent landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election, …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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5/11/22
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea announced its first coronavirus infection more than two years into the pandemic Thursday as leader Kim Jong Un called for raising COVID-19 preventive measures …
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5/11/22
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TILOS, Greece (AP) — When deciding where to test green tech, Greek policymakers picked the remotest point on the map: tiny Tilos.
Providing electricity and basic services, and even access by …
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS
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5/11/22
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Al-Jazeera is blaming Israel for the death of its reporter, who was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.
The Qatar-based broadcaster …
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By JOSEPH KRAUSS and FARES AKRAM
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5/11/22
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GENEVA (AP) — Christie's says “The Rock,” an egg-sized white diamond billed as the largest of its kind to go up for auction, sold Wednesday for more than 21.6 million Swiss francs ($21.75 …
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5/11/22
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