By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China on Thursday denied any suggestion that it was in active negotiations with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over tariffs, saying that any notion of progress in the matter was as groundless as "trying to catch the ...
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN, SHEIKH SAALIQ and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India and Pakistan cancelled visas for their nationals to each other's countries and Islamabad warned New Delhi for suspending a water-sharing treaty Thursday. The moves came after India blamed ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean government's fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation's historic foreign adoption program, a decision stemming from internal ...
By ANDY WONG Associated Press JIUQUAN, China (AP) — China has launched three astronauts into space to replace the crew on the Chinese Tiangong space station, marking a further step in the country's ambitions for a crewed mission to the moon and explore Mars. The Shenzhou 20 spaceship took ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government on Thursday canceled a proposed tax increase that had threatened to collapse the unity government after a pushback from various political parties. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced that the ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors indicted former liberal President Moon Jae-in on bribery charges Thursday, saying that a budget airline gave his son-in-law a lucrative no-show job during Moon's term in office. Moon's indictment adds him ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An overnight Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 23 people, as Arab mediators worked on a proposal to end the war with Hamas that would include a five-to-seven-year truce and the ...
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc's digital competition rules. The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on ...
By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas of Turkey on Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the city of 16 million people, though there were no immediate ...
The Associated Press undefined VATICAN CITY (AP) — Emilio Morenatti, chief photographer in Spain for The Associated Press, arrived in St. Peter's Square before sunrise to wait for Pope Francis' casket to pass through the crowd and into St. Peter's Basilica. As the pallbearers approached ...
By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday arrested an Indigenous leader of nationwide protests in 2023 that sought to ensure then President-elect Bernardo Arévalo's transition to power while also demanding the resignation of the ...
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, never set foot in his homeland after becoming Pope Francis in 2013. That left many of the faithful in Argentina feeling puzzled and snubbed by the world's ...
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Belgian teenagers who were found with thousands of ants valued at $9,200 and allegedly destined for European and Asian markets will be sentenced in two weeks, a Kenyan magistrate said Wednesday. Magistrate Njeri Thuku, sitting ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's foreign minister on Wednesday used an annual address to parliament to send a sharp message to Russian leaders as war continues in neighboring Ukraine, asking: "Don't you have enough land?" Foreign Minster Radek Sikorski described the difficult situation Poland ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 26 people were killed and 17 others wounded after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the worst assault in years targeting civilians in the restive region that has seen an anti-India rebellion ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — Leading automakers are showcasing their latest designed-for-China and the world models at the Shanghai auto show this week, fighting not to be edged aside in the world's largest car market while watching for U.S. President Donald ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter's Basilica, where the faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects to history's first Latin American pontiff. The ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble. Separate ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday as New Delhi looks to avoid American tariffs, negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Washington and strengthen ties with the Trump ...
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court convicted and sentenced on Tuesday two former prosecutors in connection with an alleged cover-up of a 2012 Ferrari crash involving an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune that killed a police officer. Former Deputy ...