Month: October 2025

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers were scouring India’s northeastern tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling on Monday for those reported missing a day after landslides triggered by heavy downpours killed at least 24 people, officials said. Teams of Indian army personnel and members of the disaster response force were searching for people who are feared trapped

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. Takaichi, 64, immediately needs to seek ways to get her long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party to stay in power

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press One child was shot while sitting on her mother’s lap. Another, hit by an airstrike as he stepped inside his home. Two others, killed while playing outside with friends. Israeli gunfire has killed at least 18 children under the age of 15 in the occupied West Bank this year, according

By MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — UNESCO is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anani, was nominated by the agency’s executive board Monday. If confirmed by UNESCO’s general assembly next month, el-Anani will inherit an agency reeling from the Trump