By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said its ground troops crossed into Lebanon overnight, launching what the military described as "localized" raids to root out Hezbollah fighters and infrastructure. Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it saw no sign of Israeli forces and ...

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal searched on Tuesday for two dozen people still missing and tried to recover the bodies of those killed in weekend flooding and landslides that left more than 200 dead. The disaster came just ahead of the ...

By PASCAL BASTIEN, BARBARA SURK and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he "pled guilty to journalism." In his first public remarks since he was released from prison in ...

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Chinese national accused of passing information on a major air freight hub to a man who is suspected of spying for China, prosecutors said Tuesday. The woman, identified only as Yaqi X. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in the ...

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country's population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse as gang violence smothers life in the capital of ...

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, ABBY SEWELL and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli ground forces crossed into southern Lebanon early Tuesday, marking a significant escalation of an offensive against Hezbollah militants and opening a new front in a yearlong war against its ...