SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president lambasted North Korea on Friday over what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula, weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rejected the idea of peaceful unification and threatened to occupy the South in the event of war.South Korean
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, United Nations experts said in a new report.The report to the U.N. Security Council
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The most powerful Pacific storm of the season is forecast to bring up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow into the Sierra Nevada by the weekend, forcing residents to take shelter and prompting at least one Lake Tahoe ski resort to close Friday.The storm began barreling into the region on
Feb. 23–29, 2024Ukrainians marked the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. A year after a shipwreck killed 94 migrants, survivors and family members returned for three days of commemoration in Steccato di Cutro, Italy. Farmers continued their protests outside the European Parliament offices in Madrid. Russian human rights activist Oleg Orlov, who criticized the war
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron appeared isolated on the European stage this week after saying the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine could not be ruled out, a comment that prompted an outcry from other leaders. French officials later sought to clarify Macron’s remarks and tamp down the backlash, while insisting
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Campaigning formally starts Friday for Mexico’s biggest election in history.Voters will choose the president, along with the winners of 628 seats in Congress and tens of thousands of local positions.The country of 130 million people has often been marked by its “macho” culture. Now it is almost certain to elect its
Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral Friday in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony.His supporters say several churches in Moscow refused to hold the service before Navalny’s team got
STINNETT, Texas (AP) — As the largest wildfire in Texas history engulfed his town, Danny Phillips was left helpless.“We had to watch from a few miles away as our neighborhood burned,” he said, his voice trembling with emotion.In his hard-hit town of Stinnett, population roughly 1,600, families like his who evacuated from the Smokehouse Creek
DENVER (AP) — Medical responders across the U.S. are rethinking how they treat people in police custody after a jury last December handed down a rare decision: It convicted two Colorado paramedics for their roles in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain following an overdose of a powerful sedative.As one of the paramedics faces sentencing
ATLANTA (AP) — After several days of extraordinary testimony, the judge in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump is set to hear arguments Friday over whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the prosecution over a romantic relationship.Lawyers for Trump and other defendants in the election case
