By STEFANIE DAZIO and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — European leaders pledged late Friday to stand by Ukraine in the wake of the contentious Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with their ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Mourners in Israel on Friday buried the remains of one of the final hostages released in the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas militants and Israel, as negotiators discussed a second phase that could end the war in Gaza and see ...
By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An avalanche swept away a large construction crew working on a highway near India's mountainous border with Tibet on Friday, injuring at least three workers and leaving 25 of them trapped, officials said. The incident took place ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An independent online news agency in Myanmar said Friday that one of its journalists arrested two years ago has been subjected to daily physical and mental abuse after exposing human rights violations in the country's main prison where he's ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British minister responsible for international development quit Friday in the wake of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision earlier this week to ramp up defense spending by slashing the foreign aid budget. In a letter to Starmer, Anneliese ...
BERLIN (AP) — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were tightlipped on the details as they launched what could be a complicated process. Merz's ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds needed and the institutions through which the funds will be channeled to protect ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and the European Union have agreed to finalize a long-pending free trade agreement this year and boost cooperation in trade, technology, connectivity and defense, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the European Commission chief ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY, MATÍAS DELACROIX and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIRAMAR, Panama (AP) — Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants' passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An investigation by the Israeli military has determined that Hamas was able to carry out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on Oct. 7, 2023, because the much more powerful Israeli army misjudged the militant group's intentions ...
By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against transgender people in Brazil, which has the ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. The death of the one-time chess prodigy was announced by the International ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued his slow recovery from double pneumonia on Thursday, beating back speculation of an imminent death, resignation or conclave and signalling that he was still very much in charge albeit in a weakened state. The Vatican ...
BERLIN (AP) — A two-day strike by workers at Munich Airport, Germany's second-biggest, started Thursday and resulted in most flights being canceled. The airport operator said airlines had canceled about 80% of their flights to and from Munich and further cancelations were not ruled out. The ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A man revered by millions as the "doctor of the poor" will be the first saint from Venezuela after Pope Francis approved a decree Tuesday. A date for the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, who died in 1919, has not been set. The Vatican in a statement ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A small group of foreign tourists has visited North Korea in the past week, making them the first international travelers to enter the country in five years except for a group of Russian tourists who went to the North last ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp. to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday, ending what became a financial ...
By MARÍA VERZA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it's a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries. Venezuelans from ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks and balances and was "systematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country through severe human rights violations," a panel of United Nations experts warned Wednesday. The report by ...
By AMER COHADZIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Wednesday sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in the fragile ...