US military says 5 crew members died when an aircraft crashed over the Mediterranean | AP News

US military says 5 crew members died when an aircraft crashed over the Mediterranean | AP News

BERLIN (AP) — Five U.S. servicepeople were killed when a military aircraft crashed over the eastern Mediterranean Sea during a training mission, U.S. European Command said Sunday.The aircraft crashed on Friday evening. EUCOM said all five crew members were killed when it went down “during a routine air refueling mission as part of military training.”

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AP Top 25 Takeaways: Alabama is a national title contender again. Michigan may have its next man | AP News

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Alabama is a national title contender again. Michigan may have its next man | AP News

Remember when Alabama benched quarterback Jalen Milroe against South Florida in September and it looked as if Nick Saban’s dynasty was maybe not dead but definitely trending in the wrong direction?Ha! Fooled ya.The Crimson Tide have won eight straight since losing to Texas at home in Week 2, including that wonky win at USF, and

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King Charles III leads a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the UK | AP News

King Charles III leads a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the UK | AP News

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Sunday led a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the United Kingdom — an event that passed without incident despite fears that tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war might disrupt the ceremony.London’s Metropolitan Police Service deployed more than double the usual number of officers to safeguard the

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Greta Thunberg is interrupted at Dutch climate march after inviting an Afghan and a Palestinian on stage | AP News

Greta Thunberg is interrupted at Dutch climate march after inviting an Afghan and a Palestinian on stage | AP News

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital.Thunberg was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands when she invited the women onto the stage.“As

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Marianne Williamson presses on with against-the-odds presidential run | AP News

Marianne Williamson presses on with against-the-odds presidential run | AP News

Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America — to audiences large and small, from churches and colleges to spiritual centers and soup kitchens — in a demanding schedule of appearances in her second tenacious, against-the-odds run for the presidency.The bestselling spiritual author and one-time advisor to Oprah Winfrey didn’t make it to the

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Over 30 workers are trapped after a portion of a tunnel under construction collapses in India | AP News

Over 30 workers are trapped after a portion of a tunnel under construction collapses in India | AP News

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Part of an under-construction road tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state popular with tourists collapsed after a landslide Sunday, trapping more than 30 workers, officials said.Rescue work is in progress and oxygen is being pumped through a pipe into the collapsed section of the tunnel to help workers breathe, said

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Missile fire from Lebanon wounds a utility work crew in northern Israel as the front heats up | AP News

Missile fire from Lebanon wounds a utility work crew in northern Israel as the front heats up | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Lebanese Hezbollah militants fired antitank missiles at an Israeli community just over the border on Sunday, Israeli officials said, badly wounding utility workers as multiplying attacks from Lebanon threatened to escalate into another front in the Mideast’s latest war. The Israeli military said it was striking the origin of the launch with

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Floods kill at least 31 in Somalia. UN warns of a flood event likely to happen once in 100 years | AP News

Floods kill at least 31 in Somalia. UN warns of a flood event likely to happen once in 100 years | AP News

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 31 people in various parts of Somalia, authorities said Sunday.Since October, floods have displaced nearly half a million people and disrupted the lives of over 1.2 million people, Minister of Information Daud Aweis told reporters in the capital Mogadishu. They have also

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Macron urges France to rise up against ‘unbearable resurgence of antisemitism’ before Paris march | AP News

Macron urges France to rise up against ‘unbearable resurgence of antisemitism’ before Paris march | AP News

PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has called on the French people to rise up against anti-Jewish acts ahead of a march in the capital later on Sunday to protest against rising antisemitism. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and numerous other politicians are to attend the march in the French capital. Paris authorities have deployed 3,000

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