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May 7, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists spread across Europe on Tuesday as some called for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza , while schools increasingly faced the question under debate in the ...
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May 7, 2024, 11:08 a.m.
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli troops seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-scale invasion of the southern city as talks with Hamas ...
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May 7, 2024, 11:07 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Speaker Mike Johnson worked to position himself as in control Tuesday, insisting he's not negotiating with far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as they prepared to meet again at the Capitol and she weighed whether to proceed ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:53 a.m.
TORRES, Brazil (AP) — A mayor in southern Brazil asked residents to ration water Tuesday in a state capital where some 80% of the population is without running water, a week after massive flooding that has left at least 90 ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:48 a.m.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog are still negotiating over how to implement a deal struck last year to expand inspections of the Islamic Republic's rapidly advancing atomic program, officials said Tuesday. The acknowledgment by the ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:45 a.m.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:43 a.m.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli tanks that entered the periphery of Rafah early Tuesday stoked global fears that an offensive on Gaza's southernmost city could endanger the more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there. The ground assault dimmed hopes ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:24 a.m.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk called Tuesday for a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian and Belarusian infiltration after a Polish judge who had access to sensitive state information defected to Belarus. ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:23 a.m.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains . In the capital, Nairobi, a bulldozer ...
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May 7, 2024, 10:09 a.m.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military on Tuesday said a suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in March was planned in neighboring Afghanistan and that the bomber was an Afghan citizen. At a news conference, army ...
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May 7, 2024, 9:47 a.m.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — German police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University earlier in the day, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have roiled ...
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May 7, 2024, 9:42 a.m.
CAIRO (AP) — An Israeli tank brigade seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and launched an incursion into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained ...
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May 7, 2024, 9:23 a.m.
ROME (AP) — The governor of the Italian region surrounding the port city of Genoa was placed under house arrest Tuesday as part of a corruption investigation by prosecutors alleging he granted political favors in exchange for money. Giovanni Toti, ...
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May 7, 2024, 9:05 a.m.
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could ...
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May 7, 2024, 8:53 a.m.
CAIRO (AP) — Israel’s defense minister has vowed to “deepen” the military offensive in Rafah if a deal to bring home Israeli hostages held by Hamas does not make progress. Israel sent troops into Rafah late Monday and seized the ...
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May 7, 2024, 8:45 a.m.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish official said bugging devices were found in a room where the Polish Cabinet was scheduled to meet Tuesday, but another official later said the equipment was part of an old sound system in the ...
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May 7, 2024, 8:26 a.m.
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the military’s capture of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing is an “important step” toward dismantling Hamas’ military and economic capabilities. Tuesday’s capture of the crossing, which is one of ...
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May 7, 2024, 8:20 a.m.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Netanyahu says capture of Rafah crossing was an 'important step' toward dismantling Hamas.
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May 7, 2024, 8:13 a.m.
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mixed Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Jul. rose 5.25 cents at $6.35 a bushel; May corn was up .50 cent at $4.5625 a bushel; Jul. oats lost ...
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May 7, 2024, 8:07 a.m.
BEIRUT (AP) — The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday. The repatriation was ...
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