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Lead scrubbed from Paris streets as Notre Dame work resumes
August 19, 2019 PARIS (AP) — Specialists shoring up fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral returned Monday to the Paris site for the first time in nearly a month, this time wearing disposable underwear and other... more »»
Rescuers use explosives to seek 2 cavers trapped in Poland
August 19, 2019 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dozens of rescuers have been working around the clock in southern Poland to find two missing spelunkers trapped by rising water in a cave, using explosives to widen... more »»
Wildfire on Canary Islands forces 8,000 people to evacuate
August 19, 2019 LISBON, Portugal (AP) — An out-of-control wildfire in Spain's Canary Islands was throwing flames 50 meters (160 feet) into the air on Monday, forcing emergency workers to evacuate more than 8,000... more »»
Danish PM: Trump's idea of buying Greenland is 'absurd'
August 19, 2019 COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenland is not for sale and U.S. more »»
Notre Dame cleanup resumes with anti-contamination measures
August 19, 2019 PARIS (AP) — Specialists shoring up fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral were returning to the Paris site on Monday for the first time in nearly a month, this time wearing disposable underwear and... more »»
Pakistan decries cross-border fire as Kashmir security eases
August 19, 2019 SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Pakistan said Indian troops fired across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, killing two civilians and wounding another, as some security restrictions were... more »»
Afghanistan vows to crush Islamic State havens after attack
August 19, 2019 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president on Monday vowed to "eliminate" all safe havens of the Islamic State group as the country marked a subdued 100th Independence Day after a horrific... more »»
Hong Kong bakery's mooncakes carry protest movement slogans
August 19, 2019 HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong bakery is doing its part to support the city's pro-democracy protest movement by making mooncakes with a message. more »»
Putin, Macron to meet for French-Russian talks before G-7
August 19, 2019 PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in southern France to discuss the world's major crises, including Ukraine, Iran and Syria, and try t... more »»
China lashes out at Taiwan over Hong Kong asylum offer
August 19, 2019 HONG KONG (AP) — China lashed out at Taiwan on Monday over its offer of political asylum to participants in Hong Kong's pro-democracy protest movement, a day after hundreds of thousands of people... more »»
Chinese K-pop stars publicly back Beijing on Hong Kong
August 19, 2019 HONG KONG (AP) — At least eight K-pop stars from China and even one from Taiwan and one from Hong Kong are publicly stating their support for Beijing's one-China policy, eliciting a mixture of... more »»
AP Exclusive: US talks secretly to Venezuela socialist boss
August 19, 2019 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The U.S. more »»
Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what end
August 19, 2019 WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the diplomacy of coercion. more »»
Iranian tanker sought by US heads to unknown destination
August 19, 2019 GIBRALTAR (AP) — An Iranian supertanker hauling $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. more »»
AP Exclusive: US talks secretly to Venezuela socialist boss
August 18, 2019 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The U.S. more »»
Iranian tanker sought by US heads to unknown destination
August 18, 2019 GIBRALTAR (AP) — An Iranian supertanker hauling $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. more »»
Police keep low profile at huge, peaceful Hong Kong protest
August 18, 2019 HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where... more »»
Funeral for lost ice: Iceland bids farewell to glacier
August 18, 2019 OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland (AP) — It was a funeral for ice. more »»
Wildfire forces 4,000 to evacuate in Spain's Canary Islands
August 18, 2019 MADRID (AP) — Around 4,000 people were evacuated Sunday because of wildfires that, for the second time in a week, ravaged the countryside of one of Spain's Canary Islands. more »»
Hundreds of thousands turn out for peaceful HK protest
August 18, 2019 HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where... more »» |
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