Thursday, March 19, 2026

Migrants endure rape and torture on route through Yemen

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MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press RAS AL-ARA, Yemen (AP) — Zahra struggled in the blue waters of the Gulf of Aden, grasping for the hands of...

Iran student leader says he regrets 1979 US Embassy attack

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NASSER KARIMI and MOHAMMAD NASIRI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown...

Blast in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed gunmen kills 13

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ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey on...

UK halts fracking ahead of election; some want permanent ban

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GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Saturday that it will no longer allow fracking because of new scientific analysis that...

Iraqis defy crackdown to hold biggest protests yet

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QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iraqis massed in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest...

Failed mission raises doubts about Mexican security strategy

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CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A sloppy operation that failed to nab Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's son - followed by days of...

Berlin Wall’s fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia

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VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then...

AP Exclusive: Peruvian loggers charged in Amazon deaths

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FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Authorities in Peru have charged five men in the timber industry with the 2014 murders of four...

Survivors say burning train took 20 minutes to stop, 74 dead

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ASIM TANVEER Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people...

Fire burns down structures at historic Japanese castle

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MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A fire early Thursday burned down structures at Shuri Castle on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying...