Carnival ruled negligent over cruise where 662 passengers got COVID-19 early in pandemic
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak was ruled...
Live updates | Relief operations in Gaza in jeopardy as Israeli airstrikes increase
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says its relief operations across the Gaza Strip will need to be sharply curtailed amid crippling Israeli airstrikes.Hospitals...
Japan’s top court strikes down required removal of reproductive organs to officially change gender
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to...
Russia maneuvers carefully over the Israel-Hamas war as it seeks to expand its global...
Russia has issued carefully calibrated criticism of both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas. But the conflict also is giving Moscow bold...
The US is sharing hard lessons from urban combat in Iraq and Syria as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods, where militants use civilians as human shields, brings...
Nicaragua is ‘weaponizing’ US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months,...
Haitian gang leader charged with ordering kidnapping of US couple that left woman dead
WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple from their...
UN official: Hostilities in Syria have reached the worst point in four years
BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Tuesday that fighting in the country has reached its worst...
Hungary in the spotlight after Turkey presses on with Sweden’s bid to join NATO
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian parliament on Tuesday refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden's bid to join NATO, further delaying...
Burying friends, updating death lists: The morbid routine of displaced survivors of a Hamas...
EIN BOKEK, Israel (AP) — For evacuees of Kibbutz Be’eri, the salty waters of the lowest point on earth, known for their healing powers,...