RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – It was nearly 2 a.m. when Amjad Sallaj heard a loud explosion outside his home. In a matter of seconds, Israeli troops burst into the building, ransacking apartments in a door-to-door search for wanted Palestinian militants. When the raid was over, the apartments had been …
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Lockdown: Apple could make it even tougher to hack Phones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Suppose the FBI wins its court battle and forces Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. That could open all iPhones up to potential government scrutiny – but it’s not the end of the story. Turns out there’s a …
Read More »US, Brazilian health teams go into slums to start Zika study
JOAO PESSOA, Brazil (AP) – Teams of U.S. and Brazilian health workers ventured into dicey slums, fought through snarled traffic and braved torrential downpours on the first day of their effort to determine if the Zika virus is causing babies to be born with a birth defect affecting the brain. …
Read More »Bolivian voters reject letting Morales run for 4th term
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Bolivian voters have informed President Evo Morales that they want his current term to be his last, narrowly rejecting a constitutional amendment that would have let him run again in 2019. It was the native Aymara’s first direct electoral defeat in a decade in power. …
Read More »Syria’s Assad assures Putin in phone call on truce details
BEIRUT (AP) – The Syrian president on Wednesday assured Russia’s Vladimir Putin of Damascus’ commitment to a Russia-U.S. proposed truce, even as a spokesman for a Saudi-backed alliance of Syrian opposition and rebel factions expressed “major concerns” about the ceasefire, due to begin later this week. Salem Al Meslet, spokesman …
Read More »Secondhand clothes from Israel popular at Gaza flea market
NUSSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) – The clothes were faded and worn out, and came from an unlikely place: Israel. But that didn’t bother the Palestinian women rummaging through piles of tattered jeans, shirts, jackets and baby clothing at the weekly flea market in a refugee camp in central …
Read More »With woman running S. Korea, North’s insults turn sexist
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea’s description of South Korea’s president as an “old, insane bitch” destined for violent death may take the rivals’ hateful propaganda battle to a new level of hostility, which is saying something for neighbors with such a long, bloody history of hating each other’s …
Read More »Hottest phones you’ve never heard of _ same bang, less buck
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Move over, Apple and Samsung. The next big smartphone might be from little-known Chinese brands such as TCL and OPPO. Along with other Chinese phone makers such as Huawei and Xiaomi, Chinese brands have surpassed Samsung in China and are encroaching on Apple’s turf. In …
Read More »Borders chief: refused migrants stuck in Greece
CALAIS, France (AP) – The Latest on the migrant influx into Europe (all times local): 12:35 p.m. The head of Europe’s border control agency says it’s proving near-impossible to return to Turkey migrants who arrive in Greece but have no case for asylum in the European Union. Frontex chief Fabrice …
Read More »Greece blasts Austria as more migrants stranded
IDOMENI, Greece (AP) – Greece made a strongly worded complaint to Austria Tuesday for drastically restricting migrant crossings, as police at the Greek border with Macedonia removed hundreds of Afghan migrants stranded at a camp there. Athens has criticized Austria’s decision last week to cap the daily number of asylum …
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