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Pro-Hamas students holed up on West Bank campus

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
BIR ZEIT, West Bank (AP) -- At 26, Saed Qasrawi is among the oldest students at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank....

Azerbaijan basks in glitz, fears exposure

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- On a recent evening on Baku's seaside promenade, throbbing Euro-dance music blared out from an open-air concert as families strolled by. Cafes serving fragrant skewered meat served throngs of locals and foreigners....

Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates:...

Pakistani who helped US sentenced to prison

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington....

Australia: No deal was made in Indonesia drug case

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker....

Malaysian opposition's Anwar charged over protest

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian prosecutors have again charged the government's most prominent challenger, alleging that he and two allies broke various laws during a massive street rally to demand electoral fairness....

Malaysian opposition's Anwar charged over protest

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian prosecutors have again charged the government's most prominent challenger, alleging that he and two allies broke various laws during a massive street rally to demand electoral fairness....

Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
AHUAS, Honduras (AP) -- A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker....

Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
AHUAS, Honduras (AP) -- A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker....

APNewsBreak: NKorea upgrading rocket launch site

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed Tuesday....

APNewsBreak: NKorea upgrading rocket launch site

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed Tuesday....

UN nuclear chief : Deal with Iran reached on probe

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
VIENNA (AP) -- Despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms, the U.N. nuclear chief said Tuesday....

Hezbollah appeals for calm after Syria kidnapping

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah appealed for calm Tuesday after people blocked roads and burned tires in Beirut to protest the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiites in neighboring Syria....

Syrian troops bomb rebel-held neighborhood in Homs

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops on Friday shelled a rebel-held neighborhood in the flashpoint central city of Homs as President Bashar Assad's troops appeared to be readying to storm the area that has been out of government control for months, activists said....

Iran won't build nuclear bomb but has no fear

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's president says Iran has no intention of building nuclear weapons, but fear would not deter it if it decided to make them....

Egypt's presidential race is haunted by the past

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's presidential campaign has been full of startling moments. At one point, ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister rode into a rally on a white horse like a knight, promising to restore Mubarak-era stability and ensure secular rule....

Egypt's presidential race is haunted by the past

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's presidential campaign has been full of startling moments. At one point, ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister rode into a rally on a white horse like a knight, promising to restore Mubarak-era stability and ensure secular rule....

Egypt's presidential race is haunted by the past

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-04-24 09:40
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's presidential campaign has been full of startling moments. At one point, ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister rode into a rally on a white horse like a knight, promising to restore Mubarak-era stability and ensure secular rule....
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