By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran pushed back Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trump's pressure tactics ahead of critical talks in Geneva over Tehran's nuclear program, alternating between calling his remarks "big lies" and saying negotiations ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on four commanders of Sudan's warring paramilitary force suspected of atrocities against civilians that U.N. experts said showed "hallmarks of genocide." The four commanders in the Rapid ...
By MATTHEW LEE and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday defended the Trump administration's military operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, telling Caribbean leaders, many of whom objected to that ...
By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia freed and deported an American man Tuesday after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend's mother on the island of Bali, but he's still on the hook for federal charges back ...
By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil (AP) — Families of those killed in the devastating floods in southeastern Brazil began burying the dead on Wednesday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 in the state of Minas Gerais. All the victims ...
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As the sun rose, a handful of women opened tattered beach umbrellas in the heart of Port-au-Prince and scanned the horizon before opening their fruit and vegetable stands. It was unusually quiet in Carrefour ...
By JULIA FRANKEL and NATALIE MELZER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a rousing welcome from Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday at the start of a two-day visit as he promised "friendship, respect and partnership" with Israel at a time when its world ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Wednesday it is sending $8 million Canadian (US$6.7 million) in food aid to people in Cuba as the island faces an escalating fuel crisis as oil shipments have slowed following U.S. threats of tariffs. Foreign Affairs Minister ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The United States has said it will wind down health assistance to Zimbabwe after negotiations collapsed on a U.S.-proposed funding deal that the African nation rejected in part over a requirement to share sensitive health data. The ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had a narrow escape this month, when tremors from the Jeffrey Epstein files shook his leadership and threatened to bring him down. He faces new danger this week from a special election Thursday in northwest ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korean militaries said on Wednesday they will conduct their annual springtime exercises next month to bolster their countries' combined defense capabilities against a backdrop of a deepening diplomatic freeze ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East, Iranians are warily awaiting the next round of talks with the U.S. in Geneva this week — negotiations that many see as a last ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East, Iranians are warily awaiting the next round of talks with the U.S. in Geneva this week — negotiations that many see as a last ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A special commission of Venezuela's National Assembly announced Tuesday that over 3,200 people have been fully released since the amnesty law took effect four days ago. This group includes both former detainees and those previously under house arrest or other ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Lebanon's Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Tuesday urged the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah not to get involved in any fighting between the United States and Iran, expressing concerns about a new possible conflict with Israel. Rajji ...
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Seventeen international aid groups said Tuesday they have petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to allow them to keep working in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian areas, where Israel is set to bar them for refusing to comply with new ...
By PAN PYLAS and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Police in Britain said Peter Mandelson, the former U.K. ambassador to the United States, has been released on bail after he was arrested in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It came days after ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press TAPALPA, Mexico (AP) — A day after the Mexican army killed the country's most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts. Children whose classes had been suspended by the outbreak of violence ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has appealed his life sentence for rebellion over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024, his lawyers said Tuesday. The conservative leader, who faces multiple ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada's most populous province said Monday "the walls are closing in" on President Donald Trump after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down many of Trump's tariffs and said he's also looking forward to the U.S. midterm elections in ...