SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean governing party lawmaker was treated for lacerations at a Seoul hospital after being attacked Thursday by an unidentified man who struck her head with a rock-like object, South Korean police and fire officials said.A police official in Seoul’s Apgujeong district said a suspect was arrested at the
An American-Palestinian teen who was killed by Israeli fire last week was struck by shots fired into the back of a pickup truck he was driving at the time, according to a witness, who said the shooting was unprovoked. An American-Palestinian teen who was killed by Israeli fire last week was struck by shots fired
Hundreds of protesters briefly blocked the main highway in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, calling on the government to end the war in Gaza and free remaining hostages. Hundreds of protesters briefly blocked the main highway in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, calling on the government to end the war in Gaza and free remaining
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will likely push back Thursday against expectations for quick interest rate cuts even as Europe’s economy sputters and financial markets froth in hopes of cheaper credit that would boost business activity and stock prices.She will likely underline that the bank needs to see more proof
BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of antisemitic acts registered in Belgium rose sharply since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza, according to the latest figures released Thursday by an independent public body fighting discrimination. Unia said it received 91 reports related to the Israel-Hamas conflict between Oct. 7 and Dec.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — One of the five children who were hospitalized in Cyprus after being rescued from a rickety boat along with 55 other Syrian migrants has died, an official said Thursday.The migrants, who were rescued early Wednesday by Cyprus police, apparently ran out of food and water after sailing on the boat from
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out a shocking arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 people. The Kyoto District Court said it found the defendant, Shinji Aoba, mentally capable to face punishment
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system — although the probe appears to be lying upside-down.Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two monuments symbolizing Australia’s colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of British settlement.A statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, while a Queen Victoria
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies.In testing with another subspecies, the researchers created a southern white rhino embryo in a lab from an egg and
