United Nations bemoans struggles to fund peacekeeping as nations demand withdrawal of missions
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The United Nations' top peacekeeping official defended the organization's missions worldwide amid growing concerns that they've gone into retreat as...
Filings for jobless claims tick up modestly, continuing claims fall
U.S. applications for jobless benefits ticked up last week, but the overall number of people in the U.S. collecting unemployment benefits fell after hitting...
Israel and US at odds over conflicting visions for postwar Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has offered strong support to Israel in its war against the Hamas militant group that rules the Gaza...
Rights groups say Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon were likely deliberate
BEIRUT (AP) — Two Israeli strikes that killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists in south Lebanon nearly two months ago were...
Officer and utility worker killed in hit-and-run crash; suspect also accused of stealing cruiser
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A pickup truck driver in a suburb of Boston is accused of crashing into a police officer and a utility...
UK says Russia’s intelligence service behind sustained attempts to meddle in British democracy
LONDON (AP) — Russia's intelligence services targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts...
British poet and political activist Benjamin Zephaniah dies at age 65
LONDON (AP) — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet and political activist who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. He was 65.Zephaniah...
Vegas shooter who killed 3 was a professor who recently applied for a job...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a University of Nevada,...
What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world
Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family...
Centenarian survivors of Pearl Harbor attack are returning to honor those who perished 82...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor's uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS...
