By HANNA ARHIROVA By Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of drones and missiles targeted Kyiv overnight in the largest aerial assault since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said Friday, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Dutch intelligence agencies said on Friday that Russia is increasing its use of prohibited chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the World War I-era poison gas chloropicrin. The Netherlands' military intelligence and the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban's government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow r emoved the group from its list of outlawed organizations. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it had received ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza late Wednesday and Thursday, including 45 who were attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said ...

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters battled blazes Thursday near Athens and on the island of Crete, where thousands were forced to flee holiday resorts, while blazes in neighboring Turkey claimed at least two lives. More than 5,000 ...

By SAMUEL GETACHEW and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his country amid a dispute with Egypt over equitable sharing of the water. Egypt ...

By AREF TUFAHA Associated Press TULKAREM REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians have fled a section of the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after receiving Israeli demolition orders — joining tens of thousands of people to be displaced by an open-ended ...

By DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed on terms for a new 60-day ceasefire with Hamas and that Washington would work with both sides during that time to try to end more than 20 months of war in Gaza. Neither side has ...

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer LONDON (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka joked that she'd love it if the upsets at Wimbledon would stop, which makes sense, given that she is ranked No. 1. She's also the only one of the five top-seeded women still in the bracket after No. 4 Jasmine Paolini, last ...

By SAMUEL GETACHEW Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday that his country's controversial power dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the dam because of concerns it would deplete its share of Nile River waters. Egypt has ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's government on Wednesday proposed a registration system that would recognize same-sex partnerships formed overseas, granting such couples more rights in the city. In a document submitted to the legislature, the Constitutional and ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haiti's gangs have gained "near-total control" of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation, senior U.N. officials warned Wednesday. An estimated 90% of the capital ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 45 who were attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said Thursday. Israel's military did ...

By SALAR SALIM and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the first concrete step toward disarmament ...

By LORNE COOK Associated Press AARHUS, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen vowed Thursday to back Ukraine in its quest to join the European Union, as Denmark officially launched its six-month presidency of the world's biggest trading bloc. Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

By SAMY MAGDY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Amnesty International issued a report Thursday claiming a controversial Israeli- and U.S.-backed system to distribute aid in Gaza uses starvation tactics against Palestinians to continue to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip ...

By FATMA KHALED, SAMY MAGDY and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hamas and Israel staked out their positions Wednesday ahead of expected talks on a Washington-backed ceasefire proposal, with the militant group suggesting it was open to an agreement while the Israeli prime ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president on Wednesday ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American and Israeli airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities, likely further ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained a former mayor and dozens of municipality officials in the western city of Izmir over alleged corruption, extending a crackdown against the country's main opposition party. Police detained 120 officials from the opposition ...

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Armed men attacked a Mali community just over the border from Senegal, Mali's military said Tuesday — a development that one expert called especially worrying as the deadly violence spreads. The al-Qaida-linked JNIM extremist group ...