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Syrian inquiry finds most allegations of kidnapped Alawite women are false 11/02/2025 09:38am • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ��� A Syrian government-led committee has found that most allegations of kidnapping of women from the Alawite religious minority were false, the findings of the monthslong probe released on Sunday show. Syria's Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba announced the out Aid efforts struggle to bring relief to parts of hurricane-stricken Jamaica 11/01/2025 09:50pm • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) ��� Rescuers and aid workers fanned out across Jamaica on Saturday to distribute food and water and reach communities still isolated four days after Hurricane Melissa hit the island. Essential relief supplies are now rolling into hurricane-stricken St. Elizabeth and Westmor With bombs and bravado, Trump puts his own stamp on Reagan's 'peace through strength' mantle 11/01/2025 06:15pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� It wasn���t so long ago that President Donald Trump spoke of building a legacy as a ���peacemaker.��� His administration would measure ���success not only by the battles we win,��� Trump said in his inaugural address, ���but also by the wars that we end ��� and perhaps Canadian PM Carney says he told Ontario's premier not to run anti-tariff ad that upset Trump 11/01/2025 01:27pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he told Ontario's premier not to run an anti-tariff advertisement that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada. Carney also confirmed that he apologized to the president during a dinner at the the Asia-Pacific Econ 9 dead, dozens injured in crowd surge at Hindu temple in southern India 11/01/2025 09:28am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� A crowd surge at a popular Hindu temple in southern India left at least nine people dead and dozens injured, local authorities said Saturday. The incident occurred at the Swamy Venkateswara Temple in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh state where hundreds of devotees had ga 4 Bulgarians sentenced to prison in Paris Holocaust Memorial vandalism linked to Russia 11/01/2025 06:12am • PARIS (AP) ��� Four Bulgarians were sentenced to between two and four years in prison for their involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on Paris' Holocaust Memorial in an act of vandalism that French intelligence services linked to a destabilization campaign by Russia. A Paris court handed do Top diplomats from Germany, Jordan and the UK call for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan war 11/01/2025 03:02am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� The foreign ministers of Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom jointly called on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Sudan, describing the situation there in stark, apocalyptic terms after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the East From the subway to social media, NYC mayoral candidates make their closing arguments to voters 11/01/2025 12:02am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In his final ad of the New York City mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo opens on a dour note: ���Life in New York is tough right now." Then comes a dig at Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who the former governor has argued is too inexperienced to lead the city: ���Candidates who need The Latest: Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule 10/31/2025 09:49pm • Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump���s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation���s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planne Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says 10/31/2025 06:22pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Groups of gunmen who reportedly killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan attacked in several waves, abducting doctors and nurses, then gunning down staff, patients and people sheltering there, the World Health Organization said Friday. The attack Tuesday in the country���s Da What to know about Rio's deadliest police raid that exposed limits of anti-gang tactics in Brazil 10/31/2025 03:27pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city���s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people wounded. Brazil���s public defender���s reported 132 deaths in the raid, more than the official polic Pakistan says it seeks no further escalation but urges Afghanistan to act against militants 10/31/2025 12:45pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan does not seek further escalation of hostilities with Afghanistan but expects the South Asian country's Taliban rulers to address its security concerns by taking action against militants operating from Afghan soil, Pakistan���s Foreign Ministry said Friday. Foreign Ministr What to know about a disputed election in Tanzania, where single-party rule is being challenged 10/31/2025 08:40am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Protests are spreading in Tanzania as electoral authorities count the votes in a disputed presidential election that rights groups, opposition figures and others say was clouded by a climate of fear in the months leading to election day. The military has been deployed alongs US defense chief vows to 'stoutly defend' Indo-Pacific interests in talks with China 10/31/2025 05:47am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� The U.S. Secretary of Defense said Friday he told his Chinese counterpart during talks in Malaysia that Washington would ���stoutly defend��� its interests in the Indo-Pacific. He also signed a new agreement aimed at strengthening security ties with India. Pete Hegset Trump no-show at big Asian economic forum may risk US reputation in region 10/31/2025 12:15am • GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) ��� A hot mike caught U.S. President Donald Trump saying that his much-anticipated meeting Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, meant to settle the most important trade relationship in the world, would be ���three, four hours��� and he would then fly back to Washing