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Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

11:09 AM on Thursday, August 14

Taylor Swift's new album announcement has everybody seeing orange

6:00 AM on Thursday, August 14

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region

5:51 AM on Thursday, August 14

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people

5:34 AM on Thursday, August 14

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts

5:29 AM on Thursday, August 14

(CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously carried a dateline of MAALE ADUMIM, Israel. The dateline should be MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank.)

5:20 AM on Thursday, August 14

Over 100 nonprofit groups have warned that Israel's rules for aid organizations in Gaza and the West Bank will block crucial relief efforts

12:54 AM on Thursday, August 14

A group of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots is working together to restore cemeteries on both sides of divided Cyprus

5:28 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion."

3:49 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century

1:44 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A pickup truck has crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish group in rural Michigan, killing at least six people

8:33 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Health officials and witnesses say Israeli gunfire killed at least 25 people while seeking aid

3:03 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Justin Fields has learned to ignore outside opinions about his performance

1:15 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting that ceasefire efforts are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza all at once

1:04 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

9:46 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Syrian, U.S. and Jordanian officials say they will work together toward a permanent ceasefire in a southern Syrian region wracked by deadly sectarian clashes last month that threatened the country’s fragile security in the wake of its yearslong civil war

9:07 AM on Monday, August 11

Local health officials in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 55 people overnight, including a well-known journalist who Israel said was a militant and people who witnesses say were seeking humanitarian aid

3:43 AM on Monday, August 11

Israel’s military has targeted and killed an Al Jazeera correspondent and others with an airstrike as they sheltered outside a Gaza City hospital