By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Palestinian economy is "in free fall," the United Nations reported Thursday, with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering military response to the Oct. 7 attacks in the territory. The ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is without a drinking water supply or natural gas for cooking and heating, authorities said Thursday, as the Russian army's attritional slog across the Donetsk region lays waste to public ...
By TERESA MEDRANO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Venezuela's opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday, four days after fleeing to the European country in a negotiated deal with Nicolás Maduro's government. González's ...
PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting its bells back, just in time for the medieval landmark's reopening following a devastating 2019 fire. A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thethiwe Mahlangu woke early on a chilly morning and walked through her busy South African township, where minibuses hooted to pick up commuters and smoke from sidewalk breakfast stalls hung in the air. Her eyes had been troubling ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Senate voted early Wednesday to overhaul the country's judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election, a change that critics fear will politicize ...
