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Israeli military official says Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon
BATROUN, Lebanon — An Israeli military official said Saturday that Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon. The operation took place in the northern Lebanese town of Batroun, the official said without providing the name of the person they detained. Earlier on Saturday, Lebanese authorities said...
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, and the country’s army chief warned that his troops are facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the all-out war started...
At U.N. summit, historic agreement to give Indigenous groups voice on nature conservation decisions
CALI, Colombia — After two weeks of negotiations, delegates on Saturday agreed at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future decisions on nature conservation, an important development that builds on a growing movement to recognize the role of Indigenous...
Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli aerial attacks that began...
Creative ‘I Voted’ stickers branch out beyond the familiar flag design
CONCORD, N.H. — Whether scenic or slightly sinister — angry werewolf, anyone? — the designs on the front of “I Voted” stickers are attracting a lot of attention this year. But have you ever considered the back of your Election Day souvenir? “Garment-safe adhesive, it’s incredibly important,” said Janet Boudreau,...
Japan’s Mount Fuji snowless for longest time ever
For the longest time on record, Japan’s Mount Fuji has been without snow. As of Halloween, the country’s tallest mountain was still without snow. This marks the longest period on record, The Weather Channel reported. The volcano’s snowcap begins forming on Oct. 2 on average, The Guardian said. Last year,...
Roof collapse at Serbian railway station kills at least 13
NOVI SAD, Serbia — A concrete roof above the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad collapsed Friday, killing at least 13 people, with more feared buried under the rubble. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that three people were rescued and hospitalized with serious...
North Korea boasts of ‘the world’s strongest’ missile, but experts say it’s too big to use in war
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea boasted Friday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts assessed it as being too big to be useful in a war situation. The ICBM launched Thursday flew higher and for...
AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns
WASHINGTON — White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email...
Trump says Liz Cheney might not be such a ‘war hawk’ if she had guns pointed at her
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Donald Trump is calling former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops to fight if she had guns pointed at her. Cheney responded by branding the GOP presidential nominee a...
Shootings kill 2 and wound 6 during Halloween celebrations in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. — Two people were killed and six others were wounded in two shootings that took place among crowds during Halloween celebrations in Orlando early Friday, authorities said. Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the city’s downtown shortly after 1 a.m. A second shooting minutes later...
Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the U.S. legally. Here’s how it works
Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration. Critics fear the change could scare people...
Roadside bomb targeting police kills 8 people, including 5 children, in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers in restive southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing eight people including five nearby children and wounding 18 other people, officials said. Local police chief Fateh Mohammad said the attack occurred in Mastung, a district...
Jury to hear opening statements in trial of veteran charged in subway chokehold death
NEW YORK — Opening statements are set for Friday in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, a white Marine veteran accused of choking a distressed Black subway rider to death. An anonymous Manhattan jury is deciding the manslaughter case surrounding Jordan Neely’s 2023 death, which prosecutors call a reckless killing...
Death toll from Israeli strikes in central Gaza rises to 25 as 13 people are killed in Lebanon
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The death toll from Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip rose to 25, including five children, as more bodies were recovered, while officials said that 13 people were killed in airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday. Sixteen people had initially been reported killed in two...
Conflicts in Israel, Ukraine dominate foreign policy issues in presidential race
Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series examining where presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on the biggest issues. Today’s segment focuses on foreign policy. ——— Foreign policy is one of the key issues for voters in the presidential election, as the conflicts in the Middle...
Russian bomb hits building in Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, killing 2, including 12-year-old boy
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces struck a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing two, including a 12-year-old boy, and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the country’s east. Regional head Oleh Syniehubov said the...
Spain searches for bodies after unprecedented flooding claims at least 95 lives
BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain — Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives. The death toll is expected to rise as search efforts...
Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 5 in deadliest attack on northern Israel since invasion
TEL AVIV, Israel — Rocket fire from Lebanon killed five people in northern Israel on Thursday, including four foreign workers, in the deadliest such attack since Israel’s invasion earlier this month. The attack came as senior U.S. diplomats were in the region to push for cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza,...
Man who threatened Fani Willis, sheriff over Trump investigation gets nearly 2 years in prison
ATLANTA — An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because he was angry over an investigation into former President Donald Trump was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in prison. Arthur Ray Hanson II, of Huntsville,...
North Korean troops in Russian uniforms are heading toward Ukraine, U.S. says
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving to the Kursk region near Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous and destabilizing move. Austin was speaking at a press conference with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun,...
At least 95 people die in devastating flash floods in Spain
BARCELONA, Spain — Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Rainstorms that started Tuesday and continued Wednesday caused flooding across southern and eastern Spain, stretching...
Donald Trump hired him to find voting fraud. He debunked it instead
ATLANTA — Four years ago, Donald Trump insisted that voting fraud cost him the election, and he hired Ken Block to prove it. A data analyst, Block did his best, searching for dead voters, double-voting and absentee ballot fraud. But he found only about a dozen examples of fraud in...
Teen Trump supporter charged with threatening Harris supporters with machete
An 18-year-old Donald Trump supporter is facing a felony charge after police say he threatened two Kamala Harris supporters with a two-foot machete as they campaigned outside a Florida early voting site. Caleb James Williams is charged with felony aggravated assault on a person 65 or older and misdemeanor exhibition...
Supreme Court’s conservative justices leave in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia’s purge voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. One Virginian, whose registration was canceled despite living in the state her entire life, called the purge “a...
