By LEE KEATH, SAMY MAGDY and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children's Fund said in a new report ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Italy's highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man of murdering her British flatmate 17 years ago in a sensational case that polarized trial ...
By EVENS SANON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The money materialized as soon as Colombia's president confirmed his visit to southern Haiti.
The Haitian government invested more than $3.8 million to more than double the runway at the airport in the coastal city of Jacmel, ...
DUBLIN (AP) — Irish lawmakers voted Thursday to make veteran politician Micheál Martin prime minister for a second time, leading a coalition government.
Members of the lower house of parliament, the Dáil, voted by 95 to 76 to confirm Martin as taoiseach, the Irish title for prime ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be flying high. Israel's enemies across the region have been badly weakened during 15 months of war. Israeli hostages have begun to come home from captivity in Gaza, and Netanyahu's good ...