HONG KONG (AP) — Select Hong Kong residents voted for members of the Election Committee that will choose the city's leader in the first polls Sunday following reforms meant to ensure candidates …
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By ALICE FUNG and ZEN SOO
Associated Press | 9/19/21 |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — France would have known Australia had "deep and grave concerns" that a submarine fleet the French were building would not meet Australian needs, Prime Minister Scott …
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By ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press | 9/19/21 |
BERLIN (AP) — A 16-year-old boy and three other people were detained Thursday in connection with a suspected plan for an Islamic extremist attack on a synagogue in the German city of Hagen, …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press | 9/16/21 |
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the United Nations called Thursday for "immediate, rapid and large-scale" cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming and avert climate disaster.
Ahead …
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By FRANK JORDANS and JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press | 9/16/21 |
AL-AIN, Lebanon (AP) — A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon early Thursday, a delivery organized by the militant Hezbollah group to ease …
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By FADI TAWIL and BILAL HUSSEIN
Associated Press | 9/16/21 |
MOSCOW (AP) — After a few weeks of desultory campaigning but months of relentless official moves to shut down significant opposition, Russia is holding three days of voting this weekend in a …
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By JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press | 9/16/21 |
ATLIT, Israel (AP) — Israel's navy has stepped up its activities in the Red Sea "exponentially" in the face of growing Iranian threats to Israeli shipping, the country's just-retired navy …
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN
Associated Press | 9/16/21 |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea tested ballistic missiles hours apart Wednesday in a display of military might that is sure to exacerbate tensions between the rivals at a time …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG
Associated Press | 9/15/21 |
PARIS (AP) — The key defendant in the 2015 Paris attacks trial said Wednesday that the Islamic State network which struck the city was attacking France, and that the deaths of 130 people was …
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By LORI HINNANT
Associated Press | 9/15/21 |
KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis traveled to the far east of Slovakia on Tuesday to meet with the country's Roma in a gesture of inclusion for the most socially excluded minority group in …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and KAREL JANICEK
Associated Press | 9/14/21 |