By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey and Israel have held "technical talks" aimed at preventing conflict between their troops in Syria, a Turkish official said Thursday. The first discussions were held in Azerbaijan on Wednesday to establish a "de-escalation mechanism ...
By ERIKA KINETZ, JOHN LEICESTER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press ROME (AP) — Two videos, two different stories about Russia's war in Ukraine. In one of them, the prisoners appear to live. In the other, they die. The Associated Press has obtained a video from a Ukrainian drone showing ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, widely seen as the front-runner in a presidential by-election triggered by the removal of Yoon Suk Yeol last week, announced his presidential bid Thursday, vowing to heal a starkly ...
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press BINH DUONG, Vietnam (AP) — Lego opened a $1 billion factory in Vietnam on Wednesday that it says will make toys without adding planet-warming gas to the atmosphere by relying entirely on clean energy. The factory in the industrial area of Binh Duong, ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The leaders of Mexico and Brazil said on Wednesday they would work to strengthen trade between their nations — Latin America's two biggest economies — as a counterweight to U.S. President Donald Trump's shifting positions on global tariffs that have thrown markets into ...
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — President Donald Trump raised the tariff on Chinese imports to 125% on Wednesday, hours after China boosted the duty on American goods to 84% in an escalating battle that threatens to disrupt trade between the world's two largest ...
By SAMY MAGDY, RIAZAT BUTT and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world's poorest and most war-ravaged ...
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. companies are seeking to invest in Pakistan's largely untapped minerals sector that boasts one of the world's largest copper and gold deposits, the Pakistani government said Wednesday. Eric Meyer, Senior Bureau Official for the State ...
By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Divisions emerged Wednesday in South Sudan's main opposition party after the detention of its longtime leader, as some voted to replace him with a government minister accused of conspiring with the country's president. Riek Machar, ...
By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The oil-rich central African nation of Gabon on Saturday will hold its first presidential election since a 2023 military coup ended a political dynasty which lasted over 50 years. The interim president, Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui ...
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A subsidiary of a Hong Kong conglomerate that is embroiled in U.S.-China tensions over its Panama Canal port assets denied allegations Wednesday that it had failed to pay about $1.2 billion to the Central American country. Panama's ...
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after finalizing a deal Wednesday to form a new government. Merz, 69, who will succeed outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, has vowed to ...
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German election winner Friedrich Merz sealed a deal Wednesday to form a new government that aims to spur economic growth, ramp up defense spending, take a tougher approach to migration and catch up on long-neglected modernization. The ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian health authorities are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 151 people across the west African nation, mostly in remote parts of the northern region with children affected ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed ...
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The legendary Jet Set club in Santo Domingo was packed with musicians, professional athletes and government officials when dust began falling from the ceiling and into people's ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said Wednesday that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. "We are ready to evacuate those who are injured or traumatized, and orphans, if ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The roof of an iconic nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic collapsed nearly an hour after a merengue concert began, killing at least 98 people and injuring at least 160. Politicians and athletes were among those at ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it has reached a preliminary agreement with Argentina on a $20 billion bailout, providing a welcome reprieve to President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country's old ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she called their "daydream" of denuclearizing the North, insisting that the country will never give up its ...