CAIRO (AP) — The Associated Press has named award-winning photographer Muhammed Muheisen, frequently honored for his striking photos of people in their everyday environment, as its chief photographer for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
ALDEBURGH, England (AP) — English rider Lizzie Armitstead has been taken to a hospital after crashing while celebrating winning the first stage of the Women’s Tour of Britain.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The effort to train Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants has been slowed by a lack of recruits and the U.S. will not meet its goal to train 24,000 by this fall, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday.
The former NAACP leader at the center of a controversy surrounding her race says she cried when reading about the transgender former Olympian’s transition.
Russia does not want to enter a costly new arms race with the United States, a top Kremlin aide said Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin said it was boosting its nuclear arsenal. “Russia is trying to react to possible threats with some sort of means but that’s it,” Yury Ushakov, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, told a briefing. “We are against any arms race because it naturally weakens our economic
After more than 1,200 tips from the public, authorities on Wednesday expanded a manhunt for two killers whose brazen escape from an upstate New York prison was discovered 12 days ago. State police reopened Route 374, a main road from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, to Plattsburgh, which had been closed since police sniffer dogs picked up the scent of Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat,
An apartment balcony crowded with birthday revelers collapsed early on Tuesday near the University of California at Berkeley, killing five college students from Ireland and an American friend, and injuring seven others, authorities said. The victims, most of whom were working in the San Francisco Bay area on temporary visas for the summer vacation, had been celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday on the fourth-floor balcony when the accident occurred, according
By Zeba Siddiqui MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian generic drugmaker Cipla expects sales from its respiratory portfolio to more than double by 2020 and remains on track to launch its potentially lucrative inhaler in Britain, its chief executive said. More than a decade after it made headlines globally for offering to make AIDS drugs costing less than $1 a day, the company that was a pioneer in India’s development as a
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