By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the war in the Middle East. Macron said the Charles de ...

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Millions of Nepalis are set to vote in crucial parliamentary elections, the first since a violent youth-led uprising toppled the previous government and thrust forward a new generation's demands for sweeping change in the ...

By ABBY SEWELL and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel sent troops into southern Lebanon on Tuesday and warned residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate as the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group said it was ready for an "open war" with Israel in the wake of the ...

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — If the adage "geography is destiny" holds true, then Cyprus should be a prime candidate as its poster child. Whether it's the Greeks, Persians, Romans, Ottomans or the British, tiny Cyprus has been a prized possession for ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials told The Associated Press. The Kurdish groups are widely seen as the most ...

By MILEXSY DURÁN and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A blackout hit the western half of Cuba on Wednesday, leaving millions of people in Havana and beyond without power in the latest outage to affect an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric ...

By JON GAMBRELL, ELENA BECATOROS and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, as Washington and Israel intensified their bombardment Wednesday of Iran's security forces and other symbols of power. Iran ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Wednesday met in Venezuela with acting President Delcy Rodríguez in the latest sign of the Trump administration's intent to exercise control over the South American country's ...

By CLARA PREVE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Nahuel Gallo, the Argentine military police officer who had been detained in Venezuela since December 2024, urged the international community on Wednesday to seek the release of 24 foreign nationals still held in the infamous ...

By JOSEPH WILSON, AAMER MADHANI and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A diplomatic tussle between the United States and Spain over the war in Iran intensified on Wednesday when the governments exchanged contradictory statements over the possible use of Spanish military ...

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel's military issued warnings to residents of dozens of border villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate "immediately" Wednesday as airstrikes on suburbs of Beirut intensified and Hezbollah claimed more ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The unfolding Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond, with nearly every country in the Middle East sustaining damage from missile hits, drone strikes or shrapnel, many reporting casualties, and key embassies, economic ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Opposition politicians accused U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday of weakening Britain's "special relationship" with the United States by differing from U.S. President Donald Trump over Iran and drawing his ire. Trump on Tuesday ...

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Iran war's disruption of Middle East oil and gas supplies and soaring prices are strengthening Russia's ability to profit from its energy exports, a pillar of the Kremlin's budget and a key to paying for its own war in ...

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Russian-flagged tanker carrying liquefied natural gas exploded and erupted in flames before sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, authorities in the North African country said Wednesday. Russia asserted that an attack by Ukrainian sea ...

LONDON (AP) — Three men suspected of spying for China were arrested Wednesday, London police said. One of the three men is the husband of a lawmaker from the governing Labour Party. The three allegedly assisted a foreign intelligence service in violation of the National Security Act of 2023, ...

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) — A torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, whose navy said Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people. The Iranian vessel sunk in the Indian ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has long been considered a contender to the post of the country's next paramount ruler — even before an Israeli strike killed his father at ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba said Wednesday it has filed terrorism charges against six suspects it claims were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that is alleged to have opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island's north coast. The Prosecutor's Office said in a statement that the suspects of ...

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China's ceremonial legislature is set to meet Thursday, where it will unveil the country's policy direction and economic goals for the coming years. The meeting is held in Beijing, where the National People's Congress and its advisory body ...