By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched dozens of airstrikes across northern and southern Gaza on Friday, killing more than 93 people and wounding hundreds -- attacks that Israeli officials described as a prelude to a larger ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — There has already been triumph and tears, singing onstage and in the streets, and a touch of political division, as the 69th Eurovision Song Contest approaches its grand final in the Swiss city of Basel. Musical acts from 26 ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities allegedly forced dozens of Rohingya refugees off a naval vessel into the sea near Myanmar last week after providing them with life jackets, a United Nations agency, family members of the refugees and ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's claim this week that there is an unreported "genocide" happening against white farmers in South Africa was his harshest accusation yet against a country he moved to punish over a range of issues ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale the world's highest peak, expedition organizers said Friday. The Indian climber, identified as Subrata Ghosh, died on Thursday just below the ...
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo police and customs have made what is believed to be their biggest bust of the anesthetic drug ketamine, brought through Haneda airport in two suitcases. On Friday Tokyo customs officials said they filed a criminal complaint against a French woman on suspicion of attempting ...
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — All of a sudden, women contacting one of the biggest sources of information about abortion in Mexico through the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp were met with silence. The nongovernmental organization's business account had been ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations on Thursday forecast slower global economic growth this year and next, pointing to the impact of the surge in U.S. tariffs and increasing trade tensions. U.N. economists also cited the volatile geopolitical ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his first audiences as pontiff that reaffirmed his appeal for a peaceful, negotiated end to Russia's war. His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk said he invited Leo to ...
By MATTHEW LEE, LORNE COOK and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — NATO foreign ministers on Thursday debated an American demand to massively ramp up defense investment as the United States focuses on security challenges outside of Europe. At talks in Antalya, NATO ...
By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States and Iran have "sort of" agreed to terms on a nuclear deal, offering a measure of confidence that an accord is coming into sharper focus. Trump, in an exchange ...
By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, while another airstrike in the north of ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei issued a decree on Wednesday curbing immigration to the South American nation, a move coinciding with the immigration restrictions put in place by the Trump administration. Milei's abrupt measures and declaration ...
Associated Press undefined BERLIN (AP) — Germany's interior minister said Thursday that the number of people turned back at the country's borders increased by nearly half in the new government's first week in office after it stepped up police checks at its frontiers, and that those ...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations' humanitarian chief has defended using the term "genocide" to describe what aid workers are trying to prevent in Gaza, saying the world should not make the same mistakes seen in past violations of international ...
By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay's capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a former guerrilla who became a pioneering leader and icon of the Latin American left, remembered ...
BEIJING (AP) — China will allow visa-free entry for nationals of five Latin American countries for one year to boost closer connections with the region. Starting June 1, citizens of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay will be allowed to enter China for up to 30 days without a visa, ...
By GERALD IMRAY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that "genocide" is ...
By AHMED MOHAMED Associated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — An appeals court in Mauritania handed down a 15-year prison sentence and a $3 million fine to former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday after he appealed a five-year sentence. Aziz helped lead two coups before ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Wednesday denied covering up decades of alleged abuse at a Catholic school where several of his children studied, telling a parliamentary commission he had "hidden nothing" and saying opponents are ...