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  In this photo provided by Philippine Coast Guard, its members stand outside their building damaged by Typhoon Yinxing in Santa Ana, Cagayan province, northern Philippines, Nov. 7, 2024. MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country on Friday, leaving two airports damaged and aggravating a calamity caused by back-to-back storms that hit in recent weeks. There were no immediate reports of casualties from Yinxing, the 13th major storm to hit the disaster-prone Southeast Asian archipelago this year. The typhoon, locally called Marce, was last tracked over the South China Sea about 100 kilometers west of the northern Philippine province of Ilocos Norte ...

  FILE - Maccabi Tel Aviv fans display yellow and blue flags of Israel and a banner inside the Arena Lublin stadium in Poland, Nov. 9, 2023, before the match. AMSTERDAM — Antisemitic rioters "actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack and assault them" after a football match, Amsterdam authorities said Friday as Israel said it was sending planes to the Dutch capital to fly fans home. An unknown number of Israeli supporters were injured in the Thursday night violence that was condemned by the leaders of both the Netherlands and Israel as antisemitic. A statement issued by the Dutch capital\'s municipality, police and prosecution office said that the night after the Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv &quo...

  This handout photo taken and released on Nov. 8, 2024, by Jeju Coast Guard shows South Korean Coast Guard boats searching for missing persons in waters off Jeju Island. SEOUL, South Korea — A fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea\'s Jeju island on Friday, leaving at least two people dead and 12 others unaccounted for, coast guard officials said. Nearby fishing vessels managed to pull 15 crew members out of the water, but two of them were later pronounced dead after being brought to shore. The other 13 did not sustain life-threatening injuries, said Kim Han-na, an official at Jeju\'s coast guard. She said 27 crew members -– 16 South Koreans and 11 Indonesians -– were on the 129-ton boat, which left Jeju\'s Seogwipo...

  Yemen DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen\'s Houthi rebels shot down what bystanders described as an American drone early Friday, potentially the latest downing of a U.S. spy drone as the militants continue their attacks on the Red Sea corridor. The U.S. military acknowledged the videos circulating online showing what appeared to be a flaming aircraft dropping out of the sky and a field of burning debris in what those off-camera described as an area of Yemen\'s al-Jawf province. The military said it was investigating the incident, declining to elaborate further. It wasn\'t immediately clear what kind of aircraft was shot down in the low-quality night video. The Houthis have surface-to-air missiles capable of downing aircraft such as the...

  FILE - A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples in Italy, is seen in 1979. When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding a child and two women embracing as they died. But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ancient world through modern eyes. "We were able to disprove or challenge some of the previous narratives built upon how these individuals were kind of found in relation to each other," said Alissa Mittnik of the Max Planck Inst...

  Taliban Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob met this week with visiting Indian point-person for Afghanistan, Jitender Pal Singh, in Kabul. (Courtesy - Taliban ministry) Islamabad — Afghanistan\'s Taliban government has held talks with India on improving bilateral ties and seeking increased humanitarian assistance for the impoverished country, officials reported Thursday. Jitender Pal Singh, the Indian foreign ministry’s point-person for Afghanistan, led his delegation’s meetings with Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and a rare interaction with Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob, among others, during the November 4-5 visit to Kabul. “Yes, this was the first meeting with” Yaqoob, Indian media quoted Randhir Jaiswal, the foreign mini...

  FILE - Then-U.S. President Donald Trump, then-NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center half hidden, and then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, participate in a NATO leaders meeting in Watford, U.K., on Dec. 4, 2019. "That can either be delivered through NATO — and there were some steps taken in this summer to sort of formalize those structures — but still significantly less than where it needs to be. It can also be done through the EU as well, which might increase slightly but probably not enough. Or it can be done bilaterally," Arnold told VOA. "I think actually the mechanisms are probably largely irrelevant. It\'s more about the cost to individual nations, and that\'s going to have to ramp up pretty quickly if they\'re going to be able to hav...

  Protesters fill the street as police deploy in Maputo, Mozambique, Nov. 7, 2024. Nairobi — Amnesty International is calling on the Mozambican government to stop its crackdown on protesters challenging the results of last month’s elections. At least 20 people have been killed in post-election violence, according to human rights groups. Demonstrators rallied again on Thursday, burning tires and blocking streets. Police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters in the capital, Maputo. Cidia Chissungo, who works with Amnesty International, said tensions are high in Mozambique. "There are cases of people that have already been shot. We cannot confirm how many died this morning. We still have to analyze all the evidence we are receiving,...

  FILE - Journalists cover a protest in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 30, 2023. Washington — Editor\'s note: This article has been updated to include a response from the Bangladesh Embassy sent after publication. The Bangladesh government has revoked the press credentials of dozens of journalists in a move that critics call an “alarming” form of censorship. The interim Information Ministry in the past week scrapped the accreditation of over 50 journalists. Over 20 senior journalists had their credentials revoked on October 30, and another 30 suffered the same fate on Sunday, local media reported. Some of those affected include Zafar Wazed, former director-general of the Press Institute of Bangladesh; former...

  FILE - The International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, April 30, 2024. THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday unsealed an arrest warrant for an alleged rebel from the Central African Republic accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, rape and persecution more than a decade ago. According to his warrant, which was originally issued under seal in 2018, Edmond Beina commanded a group of about 100 to 400 fighters responsible for murdering Muslims in early 2014 in a village in the west of the impoverished nation. Prosecutors say Beina\'s group was part of the anti-Balaka, a mainly Christian militia that fought against the predomi...