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Survivors, rescuers in Hamas music festival attack recount the day's horrors

By Leila Molana-Allen

The day that started the Israel-Hamas war, Oct. 7, was a day of horrific carnage and terror, and nowhere more so than at the Nova music festival in southern Israel. Hamas attackers shattered the desert rave at dawn, killing hundreds…

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U.S. asks Congo and Rwanda to de-escalate tensions as fighting near their border displaces millions

By Emmanuel Igunza, Associated Press

Fighting between M23 rebels and militias loyal to the Congolese army has intensified in eastern Congo. The Congolese government has repeatedly accused Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebels, which Rwanda denies.

U.S. and India reaffirm security ties as their top diplomats and defense officials hold talks

By Ashok Sharma, Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. and India are continuing to deepen their partnership and collaboration in emerging technologies, defense and diplomacy to create an Indo-Pacific region that's free and prosperous.

An EU plan to fight climate change will go to final votes, even if watered down

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

European Union institutions and conservationists have given a conditional and guarded welcome to a major plan to better protect nature and fight climate change in the 27-nation bloc.

Mitch McConnell, standing apart in a shifting GOP, digs in on his decades-long push against Russia

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

The Republican dissension over the issue has become a pivotal moment in U.S. politics that has put the Ukraine aid and America's role in the world in doubt.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world's population has passed 8 billion

By Mead Gruver, Associated Press

The bureau says the overall trend is longer lifespans offsetting fewer births. Even so, the global population growth rate continues a long-term trend of decline.

What is Diwali, and how is it celebrated in India and the diaspora?

By Deepa Bharath, Associated Press

Diwali is derived from the word “Deepavali,” which means “a row of lights.”…

Under strained circumstances, Biden, Xi scheduled to talk trade

By Aamer Madhani, Colleen Long, Associated Press

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Wednesday in California for talks on trade, Taiwan and managing fraught U.S.-Chinese relations in the first engagement between the leaders of the world's two biggest economies in nearly a year.

'Far too many' Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war, Blinken says

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

“Much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure that humanitarian assistance reaches them," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday.

Palestinian evacuees say thousands of people sheltering at Shifa hospital have fled after strikes

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue, David Rising, Associated Press

The Israel army says Hamas’ military infrastructure is set up amid Gaza City’s hospitals and neighborhoods. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after its deadly Oct. 7 surprise incursion.