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 ...
By JEAN-FERNAND KOENA and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra won a third term in last month's election, provisional results showed. The major opposition coalition boycotted the vote after a ...
By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Leaders of Ukraine's allies gathered Tuesday in Paris for key talks that could help determine the country's security after any potential peace deal is reached with Russia. But prospects for progress are uncertain: The Trump ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations in the aftermath of an audacious military ...
By AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED Associated Press ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Southern separatists in Yemen said Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes Saturday on a military camp in the port city of Mukalla and other areas where their forces are stationed, as Saudi-backed forces moved to ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has chosen Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine's head of military intelligence, as his new chief of staff, a move that comes at an especially critical moment in Russia's nearly 4-year-old ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum 's first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded and leaving at least two people dead. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press SION, Switzerland (AP) — The hospital that initially took in the majority of injured victims from a fire at a Swiss bar is no stranger to emergencies: In the heart of the Alps, it is used to treating winter sports enthusiasts who have accidents on the ...
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan's capital sentenced seven people, including three journalists, two YouTubers and two retired army officers, to life imprisonment on Friday, after convicting them of inciting violence during riots in 2023 and spreading ...
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Friday began enforcing its newly ratified penal code, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the country for more than 80 years and marking a major shift in its legal landscape. Since proclaiming ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia 31 years ago could this year become the last part of Australia to secure the same legal reform as the Northern Territory government on Friday announced plans to ...