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Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 4:39 AM CDT
|By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
The World Health Organization reported late Sunday the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press
Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark’s longest closure since World War II.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 2:40 AM CDT
An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail Monday in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2020 at 1:39 AM CDT
Multiple witnesses described the dog as a pit bull, but police could not confirm the breed.
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Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 1:19 AM CDT
|By NICK PERRY Associated Press
Experts say a number of factors have helped New Zealand wipe out the disease, including its isolated location in the South Pacific that gave it vital time to see the devastating spread of the virus in other countries.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2019 at 8:40 AM CST
British police said Friday they were dealing with an incident on London Bridge, and witnesses have reported hearing gunshots.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 3:09 AM CDT
|By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
A fire early Thursday burned down structures at Shuri Castle on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 1:42 AM CDT
|By ASIM TANVEER Associated Press
A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train’s brakes.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2019 at 3:35 AM CDT
|By NINIEK KARMINI and MARGIE MASON Associated Press
Indonesian investigators found plenty of blame to go around for a Boeing 737 Max crash that killed 189 people a year ago.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2019 at 3:08 AM CDT
|By JILL LAWLESS and RAF CASERT Associated Press
Prime Minister Boris Johnson grudgingly asked the European Union late Saturday to delay Brexit after the British Parliament postponed a decision on whether to back his divorce deal.
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Updated: Oct. 18, 2019 at 12:52 AM CDT
Terrifying moments were caught on camera in Argentina.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2019 at 12:38 AM CDT
|By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press
Among the reported deaths were those whose homes were buried in landslides. Other fatalities included people who got swept away by raging rivers.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 5:03 AM CDT
|By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the U.S. will send fighter jets and additional air defenses to the Saudis to help defend the kingdom against Iran amid the heightened tensions.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 4:19 AM CDT
|By MARK LEWIS and ELIAS MESERET Associated Press
The 2019 Nobel Peace has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 1:43 AM CDT
|By MEHMET GUZEL and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
No U.S. troops were hurt in Friday's explosion at the small U.S. outpost, and the artillery strike marked the first time a coalition base was in the line of fire since Turkey's offensive began.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2019 at 10:05 PM CDT
|By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
North Korea said Thursday it has carried out its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in three years, in an apparent bid to dial up pressure on the United States ahead of a weekend resumption of their nuclear diplomacy.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2019 at 1:46 AM CDT
|By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press
A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2019 at 1:11 AM CDT
|By EDITH M. LEDERER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
Fallout from the Sept. 14 attacks is still reverberating as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2019 at 7:44 PM CDT
|By ROB GILLIES Associated Press
Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign for national elections was hit Wednesday by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a costume party in 2001.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2019 at 4:24 AM CDT
|By RENATA BRITO Associated Press
A charity rescue ship with 82 migrants aboard said Saturday it has received permission to sail to a tiny southern Italian island, in a possible sign Italy's hard line against such vessels might be easing somewhat under the new government.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2019 at 3:00 AM CDT
|By NANNAPAT PUROD Associated Press
Pope Francis will visit Thailand and Japan in November in a visit expected to highlight his call for complete nuclear disarmament and honor the small Catholic communities in each country.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2019 at 7:33 PM CDT
|By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
In a session that ran past midnight, Parliament enacted a law to block a no-deal Brexit next month, ordered the government to release private communications about its Brexit plans and rejected Johnson's call for a snap election to break the political deadlock.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2019 at 5:46 AM CDT
Pope Francis says he was stuck for 25 minutes in a Vatican elevator and had to be rescued by firefighters.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2019 at 7:45 PM CDT
North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country's ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2019 at 2:39 PM CDT
Egan Bernal has become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France as the three-week race ended with the 21st and final stage on the Champs-Elysees.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2019 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By ROB GILLIES and IAN HARRISON Associated Press
Gunfire broke out and a stampede ensued as fans celebrated at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Raptors, leaving four people shot and thousands fleeing less than a block from where the players and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat on stage.
Updated: Jun. 6, 2019 at 9:46 AM CDT
|By RAF CASERT and JOHN LEICESTER, The Associated Press
With the silence of remembrance and respect, nations honored the memory of the fallen and the singular bravery of all Allied troops who sloshed through bloodied water to the landing beaches of Normandy.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 9:54 PM CDT
|By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
A man swinging a knife attacked commuters at a crowded bus stop during Tuesday morning's rush hour. The wounded include 13 children.
Updated: May. 10, 2019 at 2:27 PM CDT
Meghan was the fastest rising girl's name for 2018, moving from number 1,404 in 2017 to 703.
Updated: May. 6, 2019 at 8:17 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Congratulations are flowing in from across the U.K. after Prince Harry announced that his American wife, Meghan, had given birth to a healthy baby boy.
Updated: May. 3, 2019 at 8:40 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says that North Korea has launched "several" short-range missiles off its eastern coast.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2019 at 7:26 AM CDT
"Everyone was in silence. There really wasn't a lot of talk where we were. There was just sirens and gasps."
Updated: Apr. 5, 2019 at 7:21 PM CDT
|By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press
It marks the first sweep of arrests to target individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2019 at 2:56 AM CDT
|By Philip Issa
Elimination of the last IS stronghold in Baghouz marks the end of the militants' self-declared caliphate, which at its height blanketed large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2019 at 5:18 AM CDT
|By Nick Perry and Juliet Williams
Hundreds of Muslim men at the park sat in socks or bare feet. One man in the front row was in a Christchurch Hospital wheelchair.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2019 at 5:57 AM CST
President Donald Trump is praising what he's calling a "very special relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the two sit down for dinner in Hanoi, Vietnam, ahead of formal talks.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 9:15 AM CST
|By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
Catholic religious orders from around the world apologized Tuesday for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family-like communities blinded them to sexual abuse and led to misplaced loyalties, denial and cover-ups.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 6:43 AM CST
|By THOMAS ADAMSON
Lagerfeld's designs quickly trickled down to low-end retailers, giving him an almost unprecedented impact on the entire fashion industry.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2019 at 10:09 AM CST
|By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press
U.S. military Col. Sean Ryan said there were no casualties among the U.S.-led coalition members.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2018 at 7:31 PM CST
Police suspect the driver, a man in his 20s, drove into the crowd intentionally.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2018 at 11:12 PM CST
The death toll from an Indonesian tsunami has risen past 280 with more than 1,000 people injured.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2018 at 9:38 PM CST
Drones first appeared above the busy airport Wednesday morning and forced the cancellation of numerous flights Thursday.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2018 at 12:32 PM CST
|By TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press
A Saudi dissident has filed a lawsuit against an Israeli surveillance company, claiming its sophisticated spyware targeted him and helped lead to the killing of his friend, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2018 at 8:42 AM CST
The price of oil plunged Friday, adding to recent losses, on concerns of slower economic growth.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2018 at 8:17 AM CST
|By SAM MEDNICK, Associated Press
Five hundred cows, two luxury cars, $10,000, two bikes, a boat and a few cell phones made up the final price in a heated bidding war for a child bride in South Sudan that went viral after the auction was pointed out on Facebook.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2018 at 10:56 PM CDT
Rescuers say they don't expect to find any survivors after plane carrying 189 people crashed minutes after takeoff.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2018 at 2:18 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Two visitors died in a fall from a popular overlook at Yosemite National Park that allows people to walk to the cliff's edge, where there is no railing, an official said Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2018 at 9:05 AM CDT
|By KATHY GANNON and AMIR SHAH, Associated Press
The stakes in Saturday's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan have never been higher, coming just two days after the Taliban assassinated two top provincial officials in an audacious attack on a security conference attended by the top U.S. military commander in the country.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2018 at 3:36 PM CDT
|By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press
A man who held a woman hostage at Cologne's main train station also injured two other people Monday, and police said his motives weren't clear but they were investigating if he had extremist connections or beliefs.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2018 at 9:05 AM CDT
|By KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press
North and South Korea continued their push for peace Monday with high-level talks that resulted in a host of agreements, including a plan by the rivals for a groundbreaking ceremony this year on an ambitious project to connect their railways and roads.