COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court on Friday sentenced former Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara to death after finding him guilty of criminal negligence that allowed Islamic State-inspired bomb attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019, killing more than 260 people. A death penalty in Sri ...
By SAMY MAGDY, SAM MEDNICK, JONATHAN J. COOPER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hamas said Friday that it will begin disarming as part of a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump that also requires Israel to end its strikes and withdraw from Gaza. It marks a potential ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — After a bruising World Cup defeat gave way to what many Argentines saw as a sweeping wave of hatred against their country, Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday signed an emergency decree empowering the government to ...
By MARK MENGONFIA and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian law enforcement agents burned some 4.2 metric tons of cocaine worth about $336 million on Thursday, days after authorities announced the country's largest-ever drug seizure and implicated senior police ...
By SAM MEDNICK, ISABEL DEBRE and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The teenage boy's hands and legs were shackled to the anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup as Sudanese warplanes attacked. He saw another child chained to the steering wheel. As their captors sought ...
By PROSPER HERI NGORORA and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Ebola has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease, data released Thursday showed, marking a 50% increase in around a week as the emergency continues to ...