By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — They are shown handcuffed, their faces blurred. The confession videos, broadcast on Iranian state media, feature dramatic background music interspersed with clips appearing to show protesters attacking security forces. Some showcase ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic's ailing economy are putting pressure on its theocracy, which has responded with a deadly crackdown and shutting down the internet. Tehran is still reeling from ...
By SAM MEDNICK and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Trump administration waded into a regional debate over the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, designating the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the transnational Sunni Islamist group as terrorist organizations. The ...
GENEVA (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will return to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of business, political and cultural elites in Davos, Switzerland, next week, leading a record-large U.S. delegation, organizers said Tuesday. The Geneva-based think tank says Trump, whose ...
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — President Yoweri Museveni and his political opponents in Uganda held their final rallies on Tuesday before an election that authorities will oversee with soldiers in the streets — deployments that have alarmed opposition figures ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, whose bloc won the largest share of seats in November's parliamentary elections, has stepped aside to clear the field for a rival, former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, two Iraqi ...
By The Associated Press undefined U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration doubled down on its intention to take over Greenland, the strategic Arctic island that is a self-governing territory of Denmark. Rubio ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's military held a funeral in the capital Wednesday for some of the dozens of soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro. Music from a military orchestra echoed over the ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press 1. Dozens of people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the South African capital Thursday to protest the U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the capture of former president Nicolas Maduro. PRETORIA (AP) — The protests were led by members of the South ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia alleged Thursday that the United Arab Emirates smuggled a separatist leader in Yemen wanted for treason out of the country and flew him to Abu Dhabi. The UAE had no immediate reaction to the claim, which ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged calm Wednesday after a bus driver ran over and killed a teenage boy during a protest by thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators against a law seeking to draft them into Israel's ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's latest threats against Greenland pose a new and potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO, perhaps even an existential one, for an alliance focused on external threats that could now face an armed confrontation ...
by SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is renewing internal negotiations over a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela a week after the United States' audacious raid there to detain President Nicolás Maduro. Ministers of ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power — a dream that was fulfilled when the U.S. military whisked the authoritarian leader away. But while Maduro is in jail ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's army chief threatened preemptive military action Wednesday over the "rhetoric" targeting the Islamic Republic, likely referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that if Tehran "violently kills peaceful ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to serve as a mediator to help resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis and ease animosities between the two Koreas. Speaking with reporters ...
By BASSEM MROUE and MOHAMMED ZAATARI Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Israel's air force struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday and early Tuesday, including in the country's third-largest city. A strike around 1 a.m. Tuesday leveled a three-story commercial building ...
By ANDERS KONGSHAUG, CLAUDIA CIOBANU and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President ...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday banned exports of dual-use goods that can serve military purposes to Japan, a move that comes at time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Taiwan, a self-ruled island Beijing claims as its sovereign territory. The Chinese commerce ministry ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent such sprawling conflicts in the future. Now ...