By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering funds received from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 ...

By GERALD IMRAY and CHARLES MANGWIRO Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mozambique's security forces carried out a brutal, three-month crackdown on protesters after the country's election last year, a leading international rights group said Wednesday, citing local activists ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted angrily Tuesday to what he called "disrespectful" remarks by the European Union foreign policy chief who warned European leaders against traveling to Moscow for military celebrations of the end of World War ...

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors said Tuesday they have opened an investigation alleging terrorist conspiracy and attempted murder after several prisons were targeted in incidents that included gunfire and arson. Top officials described the attacks as a ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The International Monetary Fund disbursed on Tuesday the first installment of Argentina's new $20 billion loan program after President Javier Milei removed most of Argentina's strict capital and currency controls. For years, ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union pledged hundreds of millions of dollars Tuesday to ease suffering in Sudan, on the second anniversary of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 14 million and pushed large parts of the ...

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's new special envoy to the United States is already under scrutiny for calling U.S. President Donald Trump a racist, homophobic and narcissistic "right-winger" in a speech in 2020. Mcebisi Jonas, a former deputy ...

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China's Xi is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of "stability and certainty." On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam's President Luong Cuong. He ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew long-range B-1B bombers in a show of force against North Korea on Tuesday, days after the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to resist a U.S.-led push to eliminate the North's nuclear ...

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Akber Khan is seeing a brisk trade at his restaurant in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Staff fan skewers of grilled meats and dole out rice and salad. As an Afghan, Khan ought to be leaving as part of a nationwide ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Hamas official said Monday that the Palestinian militant group is sending a delegation to the Gulf state of Qatar to continue indirect ceasefire talks with Israel over the war in Gaza, as the territory's ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — Erick Ojeda has no money. He returned to land almost empty-handed from an overnight trip fishing for shrimp. His sister and her newborn are waiting for him to pick them up from a hospital. He has had no luck finding a ride ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 300 civilians were killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region, the U.N. humanitarian agency reported Monday, as the African country's brutal civil war nears the two-year mark. The ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yoon Suk Yeol's legal saga is far from over. Ten days after he was ousted from office over his martial law declaration, the former conservative South Korean president appeared for the first time at his criminal ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti's government announced Monday that it approved what it called a "war budget" of $275,000 aimed at alleviating the country's crisis as gang violence surges. Nearly 40% of the money will go toward Haiti's police and military "to fight the armed groups that ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The main opposition group in South Sudan demanded Monday an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw government troops target areas loyal to the group's longtime leader, Riek Machar, who is under house arrest. Machar, the country's ...

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia on Monday claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine's Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned the attack as a war crime. Ukrainian ...

By HUIZHONG WU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — China's leader Xi Jinping said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia on Monday, presenting China as a force for stability in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Monday unveiled a financial aid package of up to 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to support the beleaguered Palestinian Authority and fund projects in the West Bank, Jerusalem and war-ravaged Gaza. The offer came as Israel expanded its offensive across ...

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a former deputy finance minister as a special envoy to the United States on Monday after the ambassador was expelled last month by the Trump administration. Ramaphosa said ...