By MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press Yemen’s Houthi rebels have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to force the agency to give them g…
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Symbolic Aleppo flight comes as civilians suffer in Syria
By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — A Syrian passenger jet landed in Aleppo on Wednesday from Damascus as domestic flights resumed between Syria’s two largest cit…
UN: Thousands fleeing Syrian offensive, kids dying in cold
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey’s border “un…
Plaintiffs’ attorneys take aim at Boy Scouts’ `dark history’
By BRADY McCOMBS and RANDALL CHASE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Like millions of other Americans in the 1950s and ’60s, Duane Ruth-Heffelbower spent his formative years learning to tie…
Trump ousts top defense official who certified Ukraine aid
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon’s top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corrupti…
Lawyer: Assange was offered US pardon if he cleared Russia
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking De…
Boy Scouts seek bankruptcy, urge victims to step forward
By DAVID CRARY and BRADY McCOMBS AP National Writer The Boy Scouts of America urged victims to come forward Tuesday as the historic, 110-year-old organization filed for bankruptcy protection in the fi…
Russia and Turkey agree on more talks on Syria amid crisis
By SUZAN FRASER and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Talks between Russia and Turkey meant to reduce tensions in northwestern Syria did not yield a “satisfactory result” for Ankara,…
New virus cases in China fall for 2nd day, deaths top 2,000
By YANAN WANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — New virus cases in China continued to fall Wednesday, with 1,749 new infections and 136 new deaths announced after China’s leader said disease preve…
President Trump goes on clemency spree, and the list is long
By JILL COLVIN, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump went on a clemency blitz Tuesday, commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year …