JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fire tore through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 17 people, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers in a neighborhood in Central Jakarta. The Associated Press
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Getting ready for the holiday season has never been stressful for Christel Dauwe — after all, her holiday period lasts all year long in her Christmas ornament shop in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Her collecting began in her teenage years, and she now has more than 64,000 ornaments in her […]
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s government on Tuesday declared a national emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Russia-allied Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks. Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving […]
A continent as large as Asia rarely speaks in a single tone. Its 2025 played out in polyphony — with chords of devotion, chaos, spectacle and fatigue — each a reminder of how much can, and does, coexist. AP photographs, taken from the Himalayas to the Java Sea, recorded all of them. Some moments are […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police have been deployed in mostly empty streets in Tanzania’s major cities on Tuesday ahead of planned protests that the government has preemptively declared illegal, urging citizens to stay home for Independence Day celebrations in the Eastern African nation. Activists have called for protests over the ruling party’s victory in a […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship traveling Friday through the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait came under attack by suspected pirates, officials said. The incident saw a ship chased by smaller vessels that opened fire on it, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. The private security firm Diaplous Group said […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools. The mental health program, which was funded by Congress after the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, […]
DUMAYR, Syria (AP) — A raid by U.S. forces and a local Syrian group aiming to capture an Islamic State group official instead killed a man who had been working undercover gathering intelligence on the extremists, family members and Syrian officials have told The Associated Press. The killing in October underscores the complex political and […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit aimed at expanding defense and trade ties, as the United States presses New Delhi to revise its decades-old partnership with Moscow. The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment […]
Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2025 Honduras held a presidential election, with two conservative candidates neck and neck as ballot-counting has gone on for days following Sunday’s vote. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro continued his public activities, as the U.S. builds up its largest military presence in the region in generations, seen by many as a tactic to […]
