By RAF CASERT Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday outlined ambitious plans to boost its defense industry as it responds to the threat posed by Russia's war on Ukraine and seeks to wean member nations off an over-dependence on the U.S. defense industry.
The plans ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's highly anticipated presidential election will take place July 28 – the birthday of the country's late fiery leader Hugo Chávez – officials announced Tuesday, plowing ahead with a tight ...
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — A ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world's largest hunger crisis, the top U.N. food official warned Wednesday as global attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Cindy ...
By JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA Associated Press
ABOARD BRP SINDANGAN (AP) — The Philippines will not allow China to remove a Philippine military outpost in a fiercely disputed South China Sea shoal, a navy official said Wednesday, a day after four Filipino navy personnel were injured ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels damaged a ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest in a campaign of assaults by the group over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The attack ...
By YURAS KARMANAU and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — As part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ever-increasing clampdown on dissent, authorities in recent years have adopted a slew of laws restricting fundamental human rights, including freedom of speech and ...
By SAMY MAGDY, TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages failed to achieve a breakthrough Tuesday, Egyptian officials said, less than a week before the start of the ...
EVENS SANON and BERT WILKINSON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian politicians started Wednesday creating alliances to lead the country crumbling under gang attacks that have shuttered the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning ...
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase a bailout loan to $8 billion.
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly announced the news in televised comments on Wednesday. Egypt has for months negotiated ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — A total of 8,565 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday, a record high since it began tallying deaths a decade ago.
The International Organization for Migration said the biggest ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — The woman in the Instagram video appeared shaken. Her face was swollen and bruised. Sitting beside her husband, she began recounting her ordeal.
"Something happened to us that we wouldn't wish on anyone," she said in Spanish, with ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP) — China's blueprint for its economy in 2024 is replete with goals and promises, but it's also notable for not spelling out specific moves to attain long-promised reforms that foreign businesses and investors have been hoping for.
The ...
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels collided in the disputed South China Sea and four Filipino crew members were injured Tuesday in high-seas confrontations as Southeast Asian leaders gathered for an Asian summit where alarm ...
By RAF CASERT Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — Top European Union officials on Tuesday outlined ambitious plans to boost its defense industry at an unprecedented pace as the bloc seeks to respond to the threat posed by Russia's war on Ukraine and a trans-Atlantic partner that could be ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea called the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills a plot to invade the country, as it threatened Tuesday to take unspecified "responsible" military steps in response.
The North's warning came a day after the South ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict said in a new report Monday that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Hamas committed rape, "sexualized torture," and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees Monday, saying 450 of its employees were members of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, though it provided no evidence to back up its ...
By BARBARA SURK and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France's constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman's right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy
The ...
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they ...