BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social network X, shared a video Tuesday in which Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei says equality should never come before freedom, in a sign of how some notable conservatives are closely watching the incoming ...
By AHMED MOHAMED and SAM METZ Associated Press
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — A Mauritanian court handed down a five-year prison sentence to the country's former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after finding him guilty of money laundering and self-enrichment, his attorneys said ...
By MALAK HARB Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As leaders, officials and activists descend on Dubai for United Nations climate talks to discuss saving Earth, another environmental crisis is nearby, and it's raising concerns among summit participants.
Devastated by a ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway's minority center-left government and two large opposition parties made a deal Tuesday to open the Arctic Ocean to seabed mineral exploration despite warnings by environmental groups that it would threaten the biodiversity of the vulnerable ecosystems in the ...
By LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press
NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The engineer and his family cowered in the safe room, dark except for a red remote-control light because they feared the gunmen outside the door would notice anything brighter.
Eyal Barad had just reconfigured the ...
By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza's second-largest city early Tuesday, sending ambulances and private cars racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what's overheating the planet: fossil fuels.
As ...
By MARDI ROSA TANJUNG Associated Press
BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found 11 more bodies of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 22, officials said ...
By JOVANA GEC, SABINA NIKSIC and ZANA CIMILI Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his wife and streamed the murder live on Instagram. In neighboring Serbia, 27 women were killed in gender-based attacks this year, despite efforts to raise awareness and reverse the ...
PARIS (AP) — France's National Assembly unanimously approved a bill to ban single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes, in an attempt to protect young people drawn to their flavors and mitigate the environmental impacts of the disposable products known as "puffs."
Lawmakers adopted the bill ...
By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics played out Tuesday in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies facing criminal ...
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico's immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds amid a record-setting year for migration through the country's territory.
The suspensions were outlined in an ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Don't trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution, said former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who added that the man leading the United Nations climate talks runs one of the "dirtiest" oil ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of protesters rallied against the New Zealand government's Indigenous policies on Tuesday as the Parliament convened for the first time since October elections.
Demonstrations in the capital, Wellington, and in about a dozen other New Zealand cities ...
By TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI and NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A member of a rescue team raised hope Monday that there may be survivors at a Zambian mine where more than 30 informal miners have been trapped under debris for days and presumed dead after heavy rain caused ...
By RAHMA NURJANA Associated Press
PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities halted the search for 12 climbers after Mount Marapi volcano erupted again Monday, spewing a new burst of hot ash as high as 800 meters (2,620 feet) into the air, officials said.
The bodies of 11 climbers ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India, a team of scientists reported.
The increase was reported early Tuesday ...
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger's junta on Monday scrapped two key military agreements that the West African nation signed with the European Union to help fight the violence in Africa's Sahel region as the country's army leaders and a senior Russian defense ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency on Monday sounded the alarm for about 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift in the Andaman Sea.
The UNHCR is worried that all aboard could die without efforts to ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's outgoing government said Monday it won't support the signing of a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur during a summit this week in Brazil even thought the incoming Argentine government has expressed ...