AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatarNow45 injured in northwest Cambodia as train hits bus at crossing without barrierAssociated PressPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Forty-five people were injured, five of them critically, when a train crashed into the side of a bus at a rail crossing in northwestern Cambodia Friday, police said. Gen. Sar Theng, the police chief for Pursat province, said the crash in Krakor district occurred around 11 …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatarNowEaster is March 31 this year. Here's why many Christians will wake up before sunrise to celebrateAssociated Press - By HOLLY MEYEROn Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn to celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God — as the sun rises. They gather outside on beaches and church lawns, in local cemeteries and national parks, marking the holy day at the very core of Christianity. For the …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatarNowBurned bodies of Easter pilgrims still lie inside a bus that crashed off a bridge in South AfricaAssociated Press - By GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASEMMAMATLAKALA, South Africa (AP) — Emergency workers in South Africa were searching Friday for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An 8-year-old child was the only survivor of the crash that killed at least 45. Hours after …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar2 hours ago9 detained in Tajikistan in relation to Moscow concert hall attack, Russian state media reportAssociated PressMOSCOW (AP) — Nine people have been detained by Tajikistan’s state security service over suspected contact with the perpetrators of last week’s attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said Friday. “Nine residents of the Vakhdat …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar3 hours agoRussia launches barrage of 99 drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy system, officials sayAssociated PressKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country, Ukraine’s armed forces said. Air raid warnings rang out across the country, with 10 Ukrainian regions coming under …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar6 hours agoA Lebanese nun's request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms over the group's weaponsAssociated Press - By BASSEM MROUE and MARIAM FAMBEIRUT (AP) — The nun stood in front of a group of young students at a Lebanese Christian school and asked them to pray for the “men of the resistance” in southern Lebanon who she said were defending the country. The men to whom nun Maya Ziadeh was referring are members of the Lebanese Shiite …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar9 hours agoA Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peaceAssociated Press - By JIM GOMEZMANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. On Friday, over a hundred people …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar14 hours agoBus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is the only survivorAssociated Press - By GERALD IMRAYCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar6 hours ago'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotionsAssociated Press - By YURI KAGEYAMATOKYO (AP) — “Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film. Japanese filmgoers’ reactions understandably were mixed and highly …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar7 hours agoMigrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can't retireAssociated Press - By KEN MORITSUGUBEIJING (AP) — At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option. For decades, they have come from farming villages to find work in the cities. Toiling in sweatshops and building apartment complexes they could never …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar7 hours agoA growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for their release are unclearAssociated Press - By DASHA LITVINOVA and ERIC TUCKERTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family. All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in Russia on charges …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar15 hours agoMob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week processionAssociated Press - By FERNANDA PESCETAXCO, Mexico (AP) — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession. The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared Wednesday. …