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What to know about the apartment tower fire in Hong Kong 11/28/2025 09:08am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong firefighters made a final push to try and find victims and any possible survivors from the city's worst fire in memory, going apartment-to-apartment in the high-rise complex in an exhaustive search. At least 128 people were known to have died in the blaze that started W Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional 11/28/2025 03:49am • KISUMU, Kenya (AP) ��� A high court in Kenya on Thursday declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security. Farmers in Kenya could face up to two years��� imprisonmen Sri Lanka closes offices and schools as death toll from landslides and floods rises to 56 11/28/2025 01:17am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lanka closed government offices and schools Friday as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country rose to 56 while more than 600 houses were damaged, officials said. Sri Lanka began grappling with severe weather last week and the conditions worsened T Bolsonaro's sentence and more top photos this week from Latin America and the Caribbean 11/28/2025 12:00am • Nov. 21-27, 2025 Detractors of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro raised glasses of champagne to celebrate his sentence outside the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, where he's under arrest. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro joined in on a government-organized, civic-military rally i Bamboo scaffolding helped build Hong Kong's skyline, but a deadly fire may hasten its end 11/27/2025 11:11pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� While the exact cause of the deadly inferno that swept across a Hong Kong apartment complex was unknown, questions have been raised about the role of the bamboo scaffolding that enveloped the buildings at the time of the fire. The blaze, which has left at least 94 dead, has focused Trump says one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by Afghan national has died 11/27/2025 08:39pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the suspect, who had worked with the CIA in his native country, a ���savage monster.��� As part of a Thanksgiving c Israeli forces kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender 11/27/2025 07:44pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed ���in cold blood.��� The Israeli military said it was investigating. The killings, captured Man dead, 2 seriously injured after apparent knife fight in Arlington 11/27/2025 06:19pm • One man was killed and two others seriously injured Wednesday evening after an apparent knife fight in the Arlington, Virginia, neighborhood of Ashton Heights. Police said they responded at around 5:11 p.m. to a business in the 200 block of N. Glebe Road for a reported assault. Once officers arri At least 94 dead as Hong Kong firefighters battle burning towers for a second day 11/27/2025 06:09pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Firefighters battled for a second day to extinguish a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 94 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's modern history. Rescuers holding flashlights were going from apartment to apartment at t Malen scores twice and hit by object as Aston Villa beats Young Boys in Europa League 11/27/2025 05:31pm • Donyell Malen scored twice for Aston Villa in a 2-1 win over Young Boys on Thursday in a Europa League game that was temporarily halted because of crowd trouble that included the forward being hit by an object thrown from the stands. Malen appeared to be struck by a plastic cup after his 27th-minut Newcastle says fans 'indiscriminately assaulted' by Marseille police 11/27/2025 04:26pm • NEWCASTLE, England (AP) ��� Fans of Newcastle were ���indiscriminately assaulted��� by French police following the Champions League game against Marseille, the Premier League club said Thursday. Newcastle has formally raised concerns with UEFA, French police and Marseille for what it described as � UK government welcomes sharp fall in net migration but says more needs to be done 11/27/2025 01:26pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The British government welcomed the news Thursday that net migration in the U.K., the difference between those moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, but insisted that the figure must fall further in order to ease tensions US man found dead in Tobago and suspect in custody, police report 11/27/2025 01:22pm • PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) ��� Homicide detectives in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating the suspected murder of an American man after reportedly going out to try to purchase marijuana. The victim has been identified as 43-year-old Christopher Brown, a builder from Silverthorne, Colorado, acco Militants kill 3 police officers in attack on checkpoint in northwest Pakistan 11/27/2025 12:15pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A group of militants armed with assault rifles attacked a roadside police checkpoint overnight in northwest Pakistan, killing three officers before fleeing, police said Thursday. Officers returned fire at the checkpoint in Hangu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Brazilian police crack down on $4.8B tax evasion and money laundering scheme 11/27/2025 11:35am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazilian police launched Thursday a police operation to dismantle a major tax evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector. The group under investigation is the country���s largest tax debtor, owing more than 26 billion reais ($4.8 billion), authorities said. Local and