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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as "Um Fahad...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalised for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction....
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation’s new leaders is rapidly growing. Haitians want security, food, jobs — and they want...
LONDON (AP): TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the US, where new legislation threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. It would be the biggest blow yet to the popular video-sharing app, which has faced...
NEW YORK (AP) — An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration in the plane circled back to land safely at JFK Airport. Delta said that after takeoff the...
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is back. The 75-year-old monarch will resume some public duties next week following a three-month break to focus on his treatment and recuperation after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer,...
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday. Authorities said the case...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The...
ISTANBUL (AP): A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an...
PORT AU PRINCE, (CMC): A new provisional government was sworn in on Thursday in this French-speaking CARICOM member state, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos. The nine-person “transitional council” was...
DAKAR (AP): Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took...
JERUSALEM (AP): A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticising the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death, his lawyer and rights activists said Thursday. Confusion still surrounds the...
ABUJA (AP): More than 100 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria near the capital city of Abuja after overnight heavy rains destroyed parts of the facility, a prison official said Thursday, as security agencies searched for the fleeing...
NAIROBI (AP): Flooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said Thursday. That is more than double the number of deaths reported two weeks ago as the amount of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence that killed or injured more than 2,500 people...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Congo 's government is questioning Apple about the tech company's knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into its...
