By BARAA ANWER and MARIAM FAM Associated Press ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims from around the world congregated on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for intense prayers on Tuesday, the second official day and the climax of the annual Islamic pilgrimage. Despite the sweltering ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BLETCHLEY, England (AP) — Artificial intelligence is "an unstoppable force" that is being weaponized in ways that fall just short of traditional warfare, Britain's cyberspying chief warned Wednesday. Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications ...

By JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A group led by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Philippines launched a fact-finding body Wednesday to document accounts of witnesses and other details of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody anti-drugs crackdown ...

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Penpa Tsering was sworn in Wednesday for a second consecutive term as the president of Tibet's government-in-exile following his reelection earlier this year. Tsering, 58, has led the exile government based in Dharamshala, ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel carried out a pair of airstrikes in Gaza City late Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 12, hospital officials said. The strike took place on the eve of Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday. In a joint statement, Israeli Prime Minister ...

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parents' groups in France called Tuesday for more attention to long-ignored child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opened of a school assistant accused of sexually assaulting nine young children in Paris. Inspired by Gisèle Pelicot 's ...

By MAURICIO MUÑOZ Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A global heritage foundation that works to improve conditions at famous archaeological sites offered on Tuesday to work with Peruvian authorities on the famed Machu Picchu, where tourists often face hours of lines, overcrowding and ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The head of Puerto Rico 's key economic development agency announced his resignation on Tuesday as he criticized the U.S. territory's administration of Jenniffer González, accusing it of interfering in the department's work. The departure of Sebastián Negrón ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port, the company that operates it said Tuesday. In a written statement, Oceanwide Expeditions said the ...

By WILL WEISSERT, AAMER MADHANI, KANIS LEUNG, SIMINA MISTREANU, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — For three days in China, President Donald Trump was unusually quiet, not speaking to reporters much and even mostly staying off social media. Then he got on ...