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From civilian to soldier: Ukrainian army volunteer buried

ZORYA TRUDA, Ukraine (AP) ??" The countryside was in full bloom when Iuliia Loseva buried her husband in the village cemetery near her home. On her knees in the grass, she bowed her head over the open coffin and kissed him one last goodbye before they lowered him into his grave.

There was a military band, and a six-gun salute. His teenage sons, pale and stunned, walked behind their father's coffin holding framed photographs of him in his camouflage uniform.

But this was not a military funeral for a career soldier. Volodymyr Losev's foray into the army was as sudden as... Read More

Massacre video reopens wounds for missing Syrians' families

BEIRUT (AP) ??" For years, the Siyam family clung to hope they would one day be reunited with their son Wassim, who they believed was being held in a Syrian government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago.

That hope evaporated the moment they saw him in a newly leaked video: He was among dozens of blindfolded, bound men who, one by one, were shot and thrown into a trench by Syrian security agents.

"It shocked us to our core," Siham Siyam said of the gruesome video, which was taken in 2013 and emerged late last month.

"They killed... Read More

Man killed in California church shooting called a hero

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) ??" A gunman motivated by hatred against Taiwan chained shut the doors of a California church and hid firebombs before shooting at a gathering of mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners, killing a man who tackled him, authorities said.

David Chou, 68, of Las Vegas ??" a U.S. citizen whom authorities say grew up in Taiwan ??" drove to Orange County on Saturday and the next day attended a lunch held by Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, which worships at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the community of Laguna Woods. Though he knew no one there, he spent... Read More

N. Korea's Kim faces 'huge dilemma' on aid as virus surges

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ??" During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made "self-reliance" his governing lynchpin, shunning international help and striving instead for domestic strategies to fix his battered economy.

But as an illness suspected to be COVID-19 sickens hundreds of thousands of his people, Kim stands at a critical crossroad: Either swallow his pride and receive foreign help to fight the disease, or go it alone, enduring potential huge fatalities that may undermine his leadership.

"Kim Jong Un is in a dilemma, a really huge... Read More

'Like every other day:' 10 lives lost on a trip to the store

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ??" They were caregivers and protectors and helpers, running an errand or doing a favor or finishing out a shift, when their paths crossed with a young man driven by racism and hatred and inane theories.

In a flash, the ordinariness of their day was broken at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, where in and around the supermarket's aisles, a symbol of the mundane was transformed to a scene of mass murder.

Carts lay abandoned. Bodies littered the tile floor. Police radios crackled with calls for help.

Investigators will try, for days to come,... Read More

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From civilian to soldier: Ukrainian army volunteer buried

Massacre video reopens wounds for missing Syrians' families

Man killed in California church shooting called a hero

N. Korea's Kim faces 'huge dilemma' on aid as virus surges

'Like every other day:' 10 lives lost on a trip to the store

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