TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama circuit judge on Monday denied Alabama basketball player Charles Bediako’s motion for a preliminary injunction, ending the 7-foot center’s collegiate eligibility and his season with the Crimson Tide.County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Pruet cited that Bediako...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Political deadlock in South Sudan is sharply escalating violence, putting the world’s newest nation on a “dangerous precipice,” the United Nations’ peacekeeping chief warned Tuesday.Jean-Pierre Lacroix urged the U.N. Security Council and the broader international commun...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and the Olympic team gold medalist thinks she may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produce...

Zimbabwe’s ‌cabinet backed draft legislation that would change the constitution to extend presidential terms from five years to seven, allowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in office until 2030.Other proposed changes in the bill presented to the cabinet on Tuesday include ⁠a provision that the president be elected by parlia...

Opposition to a deal that would allow U.S. companies access to critical minerals in Congo is growing after Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi returned from the U.S. minerals summit last week — with praises from U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers.Tshisekedi has offered U.S. compan...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A passenger aircraft carrying up to 50 people veered off the runway at Somalia’s main airport onto the nearby shoreline Tuesday during an emergency crash-landing following a technical problem shortly after takeoff. There was no immediate word on whether there were c...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures accelerate the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it has sparked a boom in ships taking routes that were previously impassable because they were frozen.The increase in shipping traffic in the Arctic, which received increased attent...

Ajok Ding Duot crouches on the dusty floor of a displacement camp in South Sudan’s Lakes State, cracking nuts open one by one.She and her family of 10 arrived here about two weeks ago, fleeing intensifying fighting between government and opposition forces in neighbouring Jonglei state.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3W...

Sustained gunshots have been heard near the central prison in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, according to media reports.It was unclear who was shooting or what triggered the gunfire on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment by the authorities.A witness reported seeing several military pickup trucks carrying armed security forces and a...

BERLIN (AP) — Established democracies’ efforts against public-sector corruption appear to be flagging, according to a survey released Tuesday that serves as a barometer of perceived corruption worldwide. It raised concern about developments in the United States and the impact elsewhere of U....

MILAN (AP) — Much like the Olympic flame, there is another symbol of triumph and transcendence — far less known — that graces one host city after another: a one-of-a-kind, wooden cross. The Cross of the Athletes has arrived in Milan for the Winter Games and holds pride of place beside the ma...

Somalia has signed a “military cooperation” agreement with Saudi Arabia, weeks after inking a similar deal with Qatar, as Mogadishu seeks regional support against Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland.The memorandum of understanding was signed on Monday between Somali Minister of Defence Ahmed Moallim Fiqi and...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities arrested a prominent journalist for criticizing the leader of neighboring Niger, a rights group said Monday, as the military regime in the West African country increasingly curtails freedom of expression during a security crisis.Youssouf Sissoko, editor...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how he handled clergy sexual misconduct cases....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s opposition leader charged with treason appeared in court for the first time in months on Monday, but the hearing was adjourned yet again after he opposed the prosecution’s plan to have secret witnesses appear in a special enclosed cell.Opposition leader Tundu...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by the Islamic State group killed at least 20 people in an attack over the weekend on a village in eastern Congo, the military said Monday. The attack by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, took place early Saturday in the village of Mambimbi-Isigo in t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on track to potentially win his first Oscar.The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, are one of the most...

Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its chief executive officer on Monday, 11 months after the abrupt resignation of its previous CEO.Foran led Walmart’s U.S. division for six years before departing in 2019. While there, he introduced online ordering and pickup, and accelerat...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese police arrested 14 suspects in a criminal network allegedly run by a French citizen that sexually exploited children in the West African country. The suspected ringleader and French national, Pierre Robert, was arrested in France last April, police said in a...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed and an unspecified number of people injured in a road accident in northwest Nigeria, authorities said.The accident occurred Sunday in Kwanar Barde in the Gezawa area of Kano state and was caused by “reckless driving” by the driver of...

CAIRO (AP) — Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Monday, the latest tragedy on a dangerous route for those seeking a better life in Europe.The U.N.’s International Organization for Migratio...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a city long defined by conflict, Somalia ’s capital of Mogadishu now echoes with the crash of pins at the country’s first modern bowling alley.It’s the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bomb...

The sun hung low when Bad Bunny emerged in Puerto Rico’s sugar cane fields during his halftime show, surrounded by jíbaros in pavas (rural farmers in traditional straw hats), viejitos playing dominos (an affectionate term for older men) and a piragua stand (shaved ice) — undeniable symbols o...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Stars have been front-and-center at Super Bowl 60, from Chris Pratt and Jon Bon Jovi introducing the teams to a series of soaring pre-game performances.Highlights from Levi’s Stadium include Blue Ivy Carter leaping in an end zone before the game and Green Day deliv...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone.She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track — split evenly between six downhills and six super-Gs — and has a total of 20 podium results there, stretching back to her...

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A truck carrying passengers crashed in northern Nigeria because of reckless driving, killing at least 30 people and injuring several others, authorities said Sunday.The trailer was driving along a highway in Kwanar Barde town in Kano’s Gezawa local government area when i...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Flash floods caused by a storm in northern Morocco killed at least four people as the country struggled with days of heavy rain and water releases from overfilled dams that forced mass evacuations, local authorities said Sunday.Three children — a girl and two boys aged...

Ethiopia’s ‌foreign minister has accused neighbouring Eritrea of military aggression and of supporting armed groups inside Ethiopian territory, amid growing tensions between the neighbours.The two longstanding foes had waged war against each other between 1998 and 2000, but signed a peace deal in 2018 and became allies during Ethio...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” falling sharply in its second weekend. Super Bowl weekend is typically one of th...

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused...

Dr. Vivien Sil Mabouang, the head of health services in a lush, green district in the center of Cameroon, drives the mud village roads with newfound worry about the health threat from the rivers and streams that thread through the land.Black flies breed in the fast-flowing water, and when they bite people, they can pass on larval w...

Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has slammed Israel’s “interference” in his country, saying its recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland has further increased instability and weakened international order.In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera broadcast on Saturday, Mohamud said Somalia “will never allow” the est...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of retirement was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina Olympics....

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed three villagers and abducted 11 people, including a Catholic priest, during a predawn attack in northwest Nigeria on Saturday, church officials said.The gunmen attacked the priest’s residence in the Kauru local government area of Kaduna state at about 3 a....

CAIRO (AP) — A drone attack by a notorious paramilitary group hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said, a day after a World Food Program aid convoy was targeted.Saturday’s attack by the Ra...

Danish researchers were set to begin a controversial United States-funded vaccine trial on newborns in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau last month when public outrage derailed their plans.The scientists wanted to assess the effects of administering hepatitis B vaccines at two separate times on 14,000 babies. Half of the sam...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — For weeks, popular Kenyan podcaster and radio presenter Francis Kibe Njeri has used his social media platforms to spotlight a problem he says many electric motorcycle riders face but few companies in the industry acknowledge: batteries unable to be swapped across networ...

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota reported a 43% drop in quarterly profit on Friday and announced that its chief financial officer, Kenta Kon, will become its new chief executive and president.Kon, a Toyota veteran, will replace Koji Sato in both roles in April. Shareholder approval is expected in June.“T...

ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds ($27 million) each to families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by security forces during British colonial rule, according to the state-run news agency.The ruling on Thursday culminates decades...

It’s that time of year when many parents across the U.S. see their kids head off to college or leave home to start their working lives. For parents and guardians, experts say, the separation from their children can cause mixed feelings of loss, grief, loneliness, relief and freedom and can l...

WORO, Nigeria (AP) — Weeks after residents of two Nigerian villages ignored a letter from militants announcing they would come to spread their extreme form of Islam, gunmen arrived on motorbikes and embarked on a 10-hour frenzy of killing.The attackers went from door to door, shooting and se...

BANI WALID, Libya (AP) — Thousands converged on Friday in northwestern Libya for the funeral of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed earlier this week when four masked assailants stormed into his home and fatally sho...

Crypto markets came under pressure this week when the price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, tumbled to its lowest level in more than a year.On Thursday afternoon, the price of Bitcoin fell below $66,000 and was hovering at about $62,900 on Friday morning.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Can Bitcoin...

BEIJING (AP) — Even as China's solar and wind power expansion advanced rapidly in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal-fired power plants than it had in recent years, raising concerns about whether the world's biggest emitter will reduce carbon dioxide emissions enough to limit climat...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — China and South Africa signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal on Friday as Africa’s leading economy looks to other options following the high import tariffs imposed on it by the U.S. and its diplomatic fallout with the Trump administration.South Afri...

United States President Donald Trump has hailed his Wednesday phone call with his key trade rival, China’s President Xi Jinping, in which they discussed a wide range of issues, as “excellent”.But while Trump, who hopes to persuade China to further isolate Iran, claimed after the call that China had promised to increase the volume o...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It was designed to be as simple as buying airtime: a quick tap on the dispenser, a few shillings and a cooking canister refilled. Now, more than 3,000 Koko fuel supply points across Kenya sit idle, with no fuel and no clear answers for the households that relied on them...

Alessandra Tarantino has been working with The Associated Press in Italy since 2005. Based in Rome, she mainly covers the Vatican, sports and politics. Here’s what she had to say about this extraordinary photo.Why this photo?I had been wanting to make a story about blindness for a long time,...

When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send “proof of life,” she addressed the possibility of people creating deepfakes.“We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated,” she said. Before artificial intelligence tools...

Thirty-one families that lost relatives in two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to revive a criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer.Paul Cassell, a lawyer for the families, urged a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal went to a record-setting salary arbitration hearing Wednesday, with the left-hander asking for $32 million and the Detroit Tigers offering $19 million.A decision by Jeanne Charles, Walt De Treux and Allen Ponak is expect...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — More than 140,000 people were evacuated from their homes in northwestern Morocco as heavy rainfall and water releases from overfilled dams led to flooding, the Interior Ministry said. Stormy weather also disrupted maritime traffic between Morocco and Spain.Torrential ra...

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — The Argentine justice system requested the United States on Wednesday to extradite the deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who has been under arrest in that country since the beginning of January, to be investigated in a case for alleged crimes against humanity p...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Organizers of an international flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on Thursday announced plans for another mission with more than 100 boats in March.Campaigners, who organized a similar aid flotilla last year, described the upcoming mission as the biggest...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian government has announced a new military operation to tackle Islamic militants following the killing of more than 160 people in western Kwara state, many of them reportedly for resisting extremist ideology.Local officials said 162 people were killed during t...

All 166 people who were kidnapped during an attack on a village and churches in Kurmin Wali in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State last month have been released, the ⁠Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said.Reverend John ​Hayab, chairman of the northern chapter of CAN, ‍said on Thursday that every abducted worshipper had now return...

CAIRO (AP) — Famine is spreading in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region and has now engulfed two more towns there, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday. The announcement came after the group said last year that people in Darfur’s major city of el-Fasher, overrun by the paramilit...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed scores of people during an attack on two villages in Western Nigeria in one of the deadliest assaults in the West African country in recent months.The attack on Tuesday evening targeted the neighboring villages of Woro and Nuku, in Kwara state. A lawmaker...

Medical humanitarian NGO, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by a government air strike, amid renewed fighting between soldiers and a coalition of opposition forces in opposition-held areas.The night attack on the hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, on Tuesday...

Medical humanitarian NGO, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by a government air strike, amid renewed fighting between soldiers and a coalition of opposition forces in opposition-held areas.The night attack on the hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, on Tuesday...

Medical humanitarian NGO, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by a government air strike, amid renewed fighting between soldiers and a coalition of opposition forces in opposition-held areas.The night attack on the hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, on Tuesday...

Medical humanitarian NGO, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by a government air strike, amid renewed fighting between soldiers and a coalition of opposition forces in opposition-held areas.The night attack on the hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, on Tuesday...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan was hit by an airstrike carried out by government forces.The incident, on Tuesday night, marks the 10th attack in 12 months on a medical facility in the country run by the group, which i...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s...

SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — Armed extremists killed at least 162 people during attacks on two villages in western Nigeria, a lawmaker said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults in recent months. One rights group estimated the death toll could be higher. The attacks targeted...