In a significant show of defiance against the United States, North Korea on Friday provided a rare view into a secretive facility built to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs as leader Kim Jong Un called for a rapid expansion of his nuclear weapons program. In a significant show of defiance against the United States, North
Two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti on Thursday to join a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight powerful gangs. (AP Video shot by Pierre Luxama ) Two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti on Thursday to join a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo, one of Africa’s largest countries, has convicted three Americans and dozens of others of taking part in a coup attempt and imposed “the harshest penalty, that of death.” The court convicted the 37 defendants, including the three Americans and imposed the death penalty in a verdict
NEW YORK (AP) — Suki Waterhouse discovered the Sparklemuffin spider during a late-night scroll. “He’s wildly colored. He’s cute,” she said. Best of all: He dances. “I felt somewhat akin to him.” The spider became a foil and a mascot for Waterhouse’s sophomore album, “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin,” out Friday. The release follows the British
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday sequestered about $3 million in frozen funds of social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, both companies linked to tech billionaire Elon Musk . The move by Justice Alexandre de Moraes aims to collect funds that are equivalent to the amount
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was wanted by the United States , as well as several other prominent militants, Iraq’s military said on Friday. The operation in Iraq’s western Anbar province began in late August, the Iraqi military said, and involved
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who worked as a U.S. State Department diplomatic security officer pleaded guilty on Friday to joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago, court records show. Kevin Michael Alstrup is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 12 by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss. Alstrup pleaded guilty
ATLANTA (AP) — A special Georgia state Senate committee that had subpoenaed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with plans to question her Friday about “alleged misconduct” related to her election case against former President Donald Trump was unable to do so because she didn’t show up. The Republican-led committee was formed earlier this year
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia on Friday demanded that an election be held and ethnic Serbs return to police and judiciary in a Serb-populated northern region of Kosovo where tensions have fueled fears of instability and new armed clashes. Populist President Aleksandar Vucic also called for the withdrawal of Kosovo’s special police from the region
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis declared Friday that China was “a promise and a hope” for the Catholic Church, offering extensive praise for Beijing at the end of a four-nation tour through Asia and again expressed hope to one day visit. Francis’ comments, during an in-flight press conference en route home from
