By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States, with a focus on buying more defense equipment in Europe rather than from suppliers across the Atlantic. The EU's executive branch ...
By DAVID RISING and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military's Agent Orange defoliant. The Trump ...
By KEN MORITSUGU and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The recent move by U.S. President Donald Trump to make cuts at Voice of America and other U.S. government-run media may be welcome news for China's ruling Communist Party. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson refrained ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A 19-year-old British man who shot and killed his mother and two younger siblings and who wanted to carry out a high-profile school shooting has been told he will not be eligible for parole for at least 49 years. At the sentencing hearing at ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR EL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli bombs began falling before dawn, lighting the sky with orange flares and shattering the stillness. The surprise wave of airstrikes plunged Palestinians back into a nightmare they ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's wave of predawn airstrikes across Gaza shattered two months of relative calm during a ceasefire with Hamas. Tuesday was one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the war began, with over 400 Palestinians killed and hundreds more ...
