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Afghans find victims entombed by avalanche

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
RAWANAK, Afghanistan (AP) -- The only warning was the strong wind that howled through the village of Daspai....

Bus station blasts in Kenya's capital kill 4

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Explosions at one of the Kenyan capital's main bus stations killed at least four people and wounded 40 others Saturday, officials said, in an attack blamed on sympathizers of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency....

Deadly hostage raid stuns Nigeria's home of Islam

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) -- While violence has engulfed much of Nigeria's Muslim north in the last year, the city of Sokoto in its far northwest offered a slow-moving glimpse of peace in the nation's Muslim north, anchored by a faith enshrined here more than 200 years ago....

Deadly hostage raid stuns Nigeria's home of Islam

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) -- While violence has engulfed much of Nigeria's Muslim north in the last year, the city of Sokoto in its far northwest offered a slow-moving glimpse of peace in the nation's Muslim north, anchored by a faith enshrined here more than 200 years ago....

Deadly hostage raid stuns Nigeria's home of Islam

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) -- While violence has engulfed much of Nigeria's Muslim north in the last year, the city of Sokoto in its far northwest offered a slow-moving glimpse of peace in the nation's Muslim north, anchored by a faith enshrined here more than 200 years ago....

Remains of 167 people found in Mexican cave

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities have found the remains of 167 people in a southern Mexican cave, and forensic experts believe the remains are at least 50 years old, according to a statement from Chiapas state prosecutors....

Pakistani troops feel West undervalues their war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) -- The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders....

Pakistani troops feel West undervalues their war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) -- The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders....

Pakistani troops feel West undervalues their war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) -- The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders....

Iran's UN fact sheet: Weapons track not confirmed

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
VIENNA (AP) -- Nine years ago, the United States invaded Iraq after telling the world that Saddam Hussein had covert weapons programs that could build nuclear arms. In the end, nothing was found. Today, acting on similar fears, Israel is threatening to attack Iran....

Iran's UN fact sheet: Weapons track not confirmed

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
VIENNA (AP) -- Nine years ago, the United States invaded Iraq after telling the world that Saddam Hussein had covert weapons programs that could build nuclear arms. In the end, nothing was found. Today, acting on similar fears, Israel is threatening to attack Iran....

New civic activists shine at anti-Putin protest

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
MOSCOW (AP) -- A protest rally against Vladimir Putin drew more than 20,000 people on Saturday, far fewer than those in past months as the opposition movement appears to be losing momentum following Putin's presidential election victory....

New civic activists shine at anti-Putin protest

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
MOSCOW (AP) -- A protest rally against Vladimir Putin drew more than 20,000 people on Saturday, far fewer than those in past months as the opposition movement appears to be losing momentum following Putin's presidential election victory....

Former Yemen president hospitalized

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The party of Yemen's former president says the 69-year old Ali Abdullah Saleh has been admitted to a hospital for regular checkups and minor procedures....

Body of hostage slain in Nigeria arrives in Italy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
ROME (AP) -- The body of an Italian hostage found slain in Nigeria during a botched British-Nigerian rescue attempt arrived Saturday in Rome, where authorities are upset they were not consulted on the effort to free him....

Pakistani troops feel West undervalues their war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) -- The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders....

Prince Harry leads race, plays rugby in Rio

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Prince Harry began his second day in Brazil running a one-mile (1.6 kilometer) race and playing rugby in Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo beach....

UN observers in Syria attacked near besieged town

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.S. accused Russia of escalating the Syrian conflict by sending attack helicopters to President Bashar Assad's regime, and U.N. observers were attacked Tuesday with stones, metal rods and gunfire that blocked them from a besieged rebel-held town where civilians were feared trapped by government shelling....

Tens of thousands protest Putin despite crackdown

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
MOSCOW (AP) -- Undeterred by a sudden escalation in the Kremlin's crackdown on the opposition, tens of thousands thronged Moscow's tree-lined boulevards Tuesday in the first mass protest against Vladimir Putin since he returned to the presidency in May....

Israel-Gaza violence ebbs as truce takes effect

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:08
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel halted its airstrikes against Gaza Strip militants early Tuesday and rocket fire from the Palestinian territory ebbed as a cease-fire ending four days of clashes appeared to be taking effect....
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