Relief group: 216,000 have fled homes in northwest Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 200,000 men, women and children fled their homes in northwest Syria in buses, trucks and cars in recent weeks,...
Rwanda avoids US-style opioids crisis by making own morphine
CARA ANNA and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Associated Press
BUSHEKELI, Rwanda (AP) — It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the...
Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved
JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that...
Gala Christmas Day in country for Queen Elizabeth II, family
GREGORY KATZ and JON SUPER
Associated Press
SANDRINGHAM, England (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and her close family spent a gala Christmas Day at her...
No Christmas at Notre Dame, as fire forces Mass into exile
PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark...
Thousands mark Christmas in West Bank town of Bethlehem
MOHAMMAD DARAGHMEH and PATTY NIEBERG
Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims on Tuesday flocked to the West Bank town of...
Putin says Russia is leading world in hypersonic weapons
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that...
Australia’s PM defends climate stance amid wildfire disaster
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia's embattled Prime Minister defended his government's climate policy Monday, as authorities warned the wildfires crisis ravaging the country's most...
US soldier is killed in Afghanistan; Taliban claim attack
RAHIM FAIEZ
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American service member was killed in combat Monday in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said, without providing further...
New construction seen at missile-related site in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A new satellite image of a factory where North Korea makes military equipment used to launch long-range missiles shows...