By RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has only "paused" its military action and will "retaliate on its own terms" if there is any future terror attack on the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday in his first public comments since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire over ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar's military on a village in the country's central Sagaing region hit a school on Monday, killing as many as 20 students and two teachers, according to a member of a resistance group, an aid worker and media reports. The ...
By JON GAMBRELL and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — On his trip this week to the Middle East, U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, though his most pressing regional challenges concern two other countries: ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An American-Israeli soldier taken captive and held for more than 19 months in the Gaza Strip is expected to be released on Monday, Hamas said, as part of a goodwill gesture for the Trump ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — After days of intense firefights, Indian and Pakistani authorities said on Monday there were no reported incidents of firing overnight along the heavily militarized region between their countries, the first time in recent days that the two nations were not shooting at each ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD and GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in ...
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli left the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City where he had sought refuge more than a year ago after the courts upheld a money laundering sentence against him and headed to Colombia where he has received political asylum, ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's embattled conservative party canceled then reinstated the presidential candidacy of Kim Moon Soo within hours as internal turmoil escalated ahead of the June 3 election. Saturday's chaotic U-turn, after a failed ...
By RIAZAT BUTT, AIJAZ HUSSAIN and RAJESH ROY Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire Saturday after U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades but accused each other of violating the deal just ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue with some of the core priorities of Pope Francis. But in a sign ...
By The Associated Press undefined VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots. There are still two more votes possible later in the ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine both reported attacks on their forces on the first day of a 72-hour ceasefire called by President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of violating its own ceasefire 734 times ...
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since they gained independence from British India in 1947. They've also had dozens of skirmishes and conflicts, including one atop a glacier dubbed the coldest and ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union published on Thursday a list of U.S. imports that it would target with retaliatory duties if no solution is found to end U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff war, which could include aircraft maker Boeing. At the same time, ...
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and PETROS GIANNAKOURIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians has said that religious faith should serve as humanity's safeguard amid rapidly advancing technology and what he described as the "impending ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Last fall, weeks before Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy floated a pitch that proposed, among other things, an economic deal that would allow Washington access to ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark says it will summon the top U.S. diplomat in the country for an explanation following a Wall Street Journal report about the United States stepping up intelligence gathering on Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory coveted by President Donald ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday fired various types of short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, South Korea's military said, adding to a run in military displays that raised animosities in the region. South Korean military ...
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday announced the granting of pardons to 42 imprisoned opposition activists, in what analysts say is an effort at rapprochement with the West. Belarus was rocked by ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 92 people, including women, children and two journalists, officials said Wednesday, as Israel prepares to ramp up its campaign in the strip, with the ...