By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over allegations he received millions from Libya for his 2007 successful presidential campaign, in the latest — and biggest — of a series of legal cases involving him.
This ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday fired a ballistic missile that flew 1,100 kilometers (685 miles) before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korea's military said, extending its weapons testing weeks before ...
By NINIEK KARMINI and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project on Monday to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women that is expected to cost $28 billion through 2029, although ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The next presidential term in Venezuela is set to begin Friday, when the ruling party-controlled congress hosts a swearing-in ceremony for President Nicolás Maduro, despite serious doubts about the validity of last year's ...
By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK and ELISE MORTON Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will urge allies to boost Ukraine's air defenses at a meeting this week in Germany, while both sides said Kyiv's forces pressed new attacks Sunday in Russia's Kursk ...
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the militant group's war operations room, according to new details Sunday disclosed by a senior Hezbollah official.
A series of Israeli airstrikes ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's new foreign minister met with his Qatari counterpart and Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Sunday, as Syria's new de facto authorities under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, establish diplomatic ties with regional and global governments.
Foreign Minister Asaad ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of South Koreans, bundled up against freezing temperatures and snow, rallied overnight into Sunday near the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, calling for his ouster and arrest, as authorities prepared to ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year's presidential election, kicked off a tour of Latin America on Saturday, just days before President Nicolás Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third term ...
By ABBY SEWELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — A fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has held up for over a month, even as its terms seem unlikely to be met by the agreed-upon deadline.
The deal struck on Nov. 27 to halt the war ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain on Saturday.
They included just a small proportion of hundreds of political ...
By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras President Xiomara Castro 's comments earlier this week threatening to stop her country's cooperation with the U.S. military if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on promised mass deportations have ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said ...
By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A top-level meeting in Montenegro on Friday promised tough measures to curb illegal weapons after a gunman fatally shot 12 people in a second such tragedy in less than three years in the small Balkan country.
An emergency ...
By GEIR MOULSON and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press
VIENNA (AP) — Talks on forming a new three-party government in Austria collapsed Friday as the smallest of the prospective coalition partners pulled the plug on the negotiations.
The talks had dragged on since Austria's ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is "strong and unpredictable," and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The rockets from Gaza have mostly fallen silent. A ceasefire with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon has taken hold. But repeated fire from Yemen's Houthi rebels, a faraway foe, is proving a stubborn threat for Israel.
The Iran-backed ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people, including several children, across the Gaza Strip, hitting Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.
As the bombardment continued on ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a "firm commitment" to protect and respect life from conception to natural death.
Francis, 88, celebrated a New Year's Day Mass in ...
BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Wednesday condemned a series of incidents on New Year's Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked and injured, mostly with fireworks.
Revellers across the country traditionally ring in the new year by setting off large numbers of ...