International

Get the camera, here comes Aung San Suu Kyi

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
BANGKOK (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi's celebrity status made her the center attraction at Thursday's opening of the World Economic Forum, where the Myanmar opposition leader signed autographs and smiled politely for pictures with delegates from around the world....

Get the camera, here comes Aung San Suu Kyi

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
BANGKOK (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi's celebrity status made her the center attraction at Thursday's opening of the World Economic Forum, where the Myanmar opposition leader signed autographs and smiled politely for pictures with delegates from around the world....

Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
JERUSALEM (AP) -- After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites....

Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
JERUSALEM (AP) -- After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites....

Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
JERUSALEM (AP) -- After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites....

Australia: No sign from US of Assange indictment

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia has talked to the United States about the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday that it can't protect the Australian activist from other countries' justice systems....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

McCain: US inability to help Syria 'embarrassing'

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The United States must show stronger international leadership to halt the violence in Syria, which could become a significant issue in this year's presidential campaign, two U.S. senators said Thursday....

McCain: US inability to help Syria 'embarrassing'

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The United States must show stronger international leadership to halt the violence in Syria, which could become a significant issue in this year's presidential campaign, two U.S. senators said Thursday....

Ireland votes on Europe's deficit-fighting treaty

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
DUBLIN (AP) -- Irish voters are deciding whether their government can ratify the European Union's fiscal treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind Ireland and other debt-crippled eurozone members to tighter spending limits....

Ireland votes on Europe's deficit-fighting treaty

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
DUBLIN (AP) -- Irish voters are deciding whether their government can ratify the European Union's fiscal treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind Ireland and other debt-crippled eurozone members to tighter spending limits....

Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
JERUSALEM (AP) -- After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites....

Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
JERUSALEM (AP) -- After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites....

3rd witness in Philippine massacre of 57 killed

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A third witness in the 2009 election-related massacre of 57 people in the Philippines has been killed and his body chopped to pieces, a prosecutor said Thursday, casting a shadow over efforts to deliver justice in the country's worst recent bloodletting....

3rd witness in Philippine massacre of 57 killed

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A third witness in the 2009 election-related massacre of 57 people in the Philippines has been killed and his body chopped to pieces, a prosecutor said Thursday, casting a shadow over efforts to deliver justice in the country's worst recent bloodletting....

US gen apologizes for Afghan deaths in airstrike

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology on Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians - half of them children - were killed in a coalition airstrike this week....

UN: Civilian deaths drop 36 percent in Afghanistan

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 17:44
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The number of Afghan civilians killed has dropped 36 percent so far this year compared with last, the U.N. said, the first time the death toll has declined over multiple months since the United Nations started keeping track....
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