By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's trains and subways were disrupted, flights grounded, grain shipments interrupted, deliveries halted and banks shuttered as unions held a general strike Thursday against the libertarian government of President ...
Associated Press undefined LONDON (AP) — Police in London arrested six people on Thursday after environmental activists from Greenpeace poured 300 liters (79 gallons) of blood-red dye into a pond in front of the U.S. Embassy in a protest against arms sales to Israel. The Metropolitan ...
EL AMRA, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities this week dismantled dozens of makeshift camps housing African migrants as part of a sweeping operation to clear areas along the country's Mediterranean coastline and ease tensions with residents. The makeshift camps, located on privately owned ...
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan said Thursday that thousands of Afghan migrants who have applied for resettlement in third countries could face forced expulsion if they are not relocated by host nations before the end of April. Deputy Interior Minister Talal ...
By LORNE COOK and DAVID McHUGH undefined BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive commission said Thursday it will put trade retaliation measures on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump's pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated ...
By JON GAMBRELL and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Moscow freed a Russian American convicted of treason in exchange for a Russian German man jailed on smuggling charges in the U.S., a prisoner swap that was completed Thursday as the two countries met to ...
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The number of dead in a roof collapse at an iconic nightclub in the Dominican Republic surged to 218 on Thursday, an official said. Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the Center of ...
By LORNE COOK and DAVID McHUGH undefined BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive commission said Thursday it will put trade retaliation measures on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump's pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated ...
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 ...