DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">fought with Hamas militants</a> and encircled Gaza City on Thursday, the military said, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. U.S. and Arab leaders raised ...
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) – Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed by some experts to Michelangelo.The secret room – a tiny 10-by-3 meters ...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip – Israeli ground forces <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">pushed deeper into Gaza</a> on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas ...
SHEFFIELD, England (AP) — Police are investigating the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson after his neck was cut by a skate blade in a game in England.Johnson, 29, was playing for the Nottingham Panthers at the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered the skate cut in a Champions Cup ...
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Estela Sandoval Díaz was huddled in her tiny concrete bathroom, sure these were the final moments of her life, when Hurricane Otis ripped off her tin roof.With it went clothing, savings, furniture, photos and 33 years of the life Sandoval built piece-by-piece on the ...
PORTO-NOVO, Benin – For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some ...
