By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's government approved on Monday exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River. The decision comes only weeks before the United Nations climate conference in Belem, COP30, where efforts ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister, after her governing party secured a crucial coalition partner. Takaichi, 64, is set to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tuesday's parliamentary vote. If she's ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq 's prime minister said Monday that a small contingent of U.S. military advisers will remain in the country for now to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria combating the Islamic State group. Washington and Baghdad ...
By ISABEL DEBRE and PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, will be Bolivia's next president, preliminary results showed on Monday, paving the way for a major political transformation after almost 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward ...
By CHRISTOPHER MEGERIAN Associated Press ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers. "We would buy some beef from Argentina," he told reporters aboard Air ...
By CHAN HO-HIM AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — One of China's most important meetings begins Monday, as leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather to map the goals for the next five years. The closed-door gathering — known as the fourth plenum — is expected ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza's fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas militants had killed two soldiers, and an Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into ...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out cyberattacks on its national time center, saying any damage to related facilities could have disrupted network communications, financial systems and power supply. The Ministry of State Security alleged ...
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire. The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, came into effect immediately and is intended to pause ...
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees Sunday, a day after they raided another U.N. facility in the capital Sanaa, a U.N. official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the U.N. resident coordinator for Yemen, told The ...
PARIS (AP) — Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning. The daring heist at the world's most visited museum occurred as tourists were inside the Galerie d'Apollon, ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan 's main opposition Nationalist Party chose a former lawmaker as its new chairperson on Saturday in a competitive election clouded by allegations of China's meddling. By a wide margin, Cheng Li-wun — the only female candidate in the race who positioned herself ...
By TOQA EZZIDIN, SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel said Hamas handed over "two coffins of deceased hostages " from Gaza late Saturday, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu increased pressure on the militant group to share the rest more quickly under their ...
By GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar's new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him fleeing from the country into ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas moved Friday to shore up its brittle ceasefire agreement with Israel by reaffirming its commitment to the terms of the deal, including a pledge to hand over the remains of all dead Israeli hostages. The militant ...
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of the son of Libya's late leader Moammar Gadhafi on condition that he pay $11 million bail. Hannibal Gadhafi has been imprisoned in Lebanon for a decade without being charged. The expected ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday rejected a final appeal by Russia against a $50 billion arbitration award to former shareholders of Russian oil giant Yukos, who claimed Moscow deliberately bankrupted the company more than 20 ...
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday celebrated his country's status as the host of upcoming talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin, a meeting where the two leaders are expected ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The factory floor used to roar. Walking around his textile mill in southern Buenos Aires, Luciano Galfione pointed out the up-to-the-minute machines that once whirred and clattered as 200 employees churned out fabric to be ...
By OPE ADETAYO Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been trying to rally fellow evangelical Christians and urge Congress to designate Nigeria as a violator of religious freedom with unfounded claims of "Christian mass murder," which the government of the West ...