ISLAMABAD (AP) — Flash floods triggered by the latest spell of monsoon rains flooded streets in southern Pakistan and blocked a key highway in the north, officials said Monday, as the death toll from rain-related incidents rose to 209 since July 1. Fourteen people died in various parts of Punjab province in the past 24
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian local authorities on Monday issued a mandatory evacuation order for families with children from the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where 53,000 people still live. They say Russian forces are advancing so quickly that it is compulsory for families to leave the city and other nearby towns. Russian troops have been
BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and Vietnam pledged to further their economic ties and gave a nod to their shared communist ideology during the first visit by Vietnam’s new president to Beijing on Monday. To Lam, who took office in May, made China the destination of his first state visit, signaling the continuing
LONDON (AP) — Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons from becoming overcrowded as hundreds of people are sentenced in connection with the civil unrest that gripped the country earlier this month. Under the measures, defendants in northern England will be held in police cells while awaiting early court appearances, and they will be
BERLIN (AP) — A record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier, the United Nations said Monday. The U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 280 aid workers were killed in 33 countries in 2023
ROME (AP) — A sailboat believed to be carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday and seven people were missing, authorities said. Fifteen people were rescued from the 49-meter (160-foot) sailboat, but seven others were unaccounted for, said Luca Cari, a spokesperson for the Italian fire rescue service. He
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday the time is now to conclude a Gaza cease-fire agreement that would return hostages held by Hamas and bring relief to Palestinian suffering after 10 months of devastating fighting in Gaza. Blinken’s ninth urgent mission to the Middle East since the conflict
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A former Saudi official alleged in a report that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman forged the signature of his father on the royal decree that launched the kingdom’s yearslong, stalemated war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Saudi Arabia did not immediately respond to a request for comment over
The Ukrainian armed forces released footage on Sunday of what is said to show the destruction of a key bridge in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine also struck a second bridge nearby, less than two weeks into its stunning cross-border incursion. The Ukrainian armed forces released footage on Sunday of what is said to show the
Two forest fires broke out on Sunday in the Yatagan and Ula districts of Mugla province, a popular summer destination in southwest Turkey. The fires broke out in the early hours of the morning. Two forest fires broke out on Sunday in the Yatagan and Ula districts of Mugla province, a popular summer destination in
