ANKARA, Turkey (AP) 鈥� The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29.Ataturk established a Western-facing secular republic modeled on the great powers of the time, ushering in radical reforms ...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) 鈥� Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti-tank weapons in order to 鈥減repare the battlefield鈥� before an expected ground invasion.The third Israeli raid since the war ...
SHANGRI-LA TOWN, China (AP) 鈥� First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Outside, craggy mountains climb toward the brightest of blue skies. The air is clean and crisp at 2,800 meters (9,100 feet), if ...
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) 鈥� A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e">attack on a Palestinian-American woman and her son</a> was ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) 鈥� Sweden reportedly withdrew the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-quran-burning-malmo-b981d13796dfde8b266a47f6765affc8">public desecrations</a> of the Quran this year but put his ...
ROME (AP) 鈥� A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the latest twist in a case that has implicated the pope and laid bare the <a ...
