COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in ...
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
Australia, Canada and the Philippines deployed three warships and aircraft Wednesday for drills against simulated aerial threats off a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese forces have used risky maneuvers to try to drive ...
By OMAR SANADIKI Associated Press
SWEIDA, Syria (AP) — An aid convoy entered the city of Sweida in southern Syria via the main highway from Damascus on Thursday, for the first time since a major outbreak of sectarian violence last month shook the country's fragile recovery from nearly 14 ...
SALISBURY, Mass. (AP) — Hurricane Erin never made landfall but left behind rough ocean conditions along the U.S. East Coast. At least two people died after they had been swimming in the heavy current, and a search continued Monday for a man who was missing after his boat capsized.
Beaches ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed five journalists Monday, according to health officials, including one who days earlier had reported for The Associated Press on children ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck one of the main hospitals in the Gaza Strip on Monday and then hit the facility again as journalists and rescue workers rushed to the scene, killing at least 20 people and wounding ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 76 hostages, including children, have been freed after Nigeria's military targeted militants with precision airstrikes in the country's northwest, local authorities said.
The airstrikes were launched on targets around ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Keith Kellogg said in Kyiv on Monday that officials are "working very, very hard" on efforts to end the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine, as a lack of progress fuels doubts about ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed five journalists Monday, according to health officials, including one who days earlier had reported for The Associated Press on children ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned Friday evening, after he failed to secure new sanctions against Israel over the war in Gaza.
Veldkamp had informed the country's Parliament he intended to bring in new measures in response to ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian federal police accuse former president Jair Bolsonaro of receiving large sums of money without apparent justification between March of 2023 and February of 2024, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press ...
By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and GRANT PECK Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a case that could have sent him to prison for up to 15 years.
The 76-year-old Thaksin, ...
By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Thursday, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don't have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
The ministry said in a statement that the agreement had been concluded but ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — China released new interim measures Friday tightening controls on mining and processing of rare earths that are used in many high-tech products including electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets.
The rules released Friday by ...
By SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from Arab mediators for a ceasefire in the 22-month war sparked by its Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel. Israel has not yet responded and says it is still committed to defeating the militant ...
By PAN PYLAS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The dilemma of how to house asylum-seekers in Britain got more challenging for the government after a landmark court ruling this week motivated opponents to fight hotels used as accommodation.
Politicians on the right ...
By PATRICK ONEN and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Alice Nekesa did not know she was infected with malaria-causing parasites until it was too late. She was in the fourth month of pregnancy last year when she started bleeding, a miscarriage later attributed to ...
BEIJING (AP) — With leader Xi Jinping looking on, China marked 60 years of Communist Party rule in Tibet on Thursday with speeches and a parade in front of the 17th-century Potala Palace, the home of the Dalai Lama until he fled to India in 1959.
Speakers hailed economic development in the ...
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president denied on Tuesday that her administration had an agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, a day after the U.S. agency announced "a major new initiative" to collaborate in the fight against drug ...