By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Israel announced trade barriers on each other Tuesday as relations deteriorated further amid the war in Gaza. Turkey, a staunch critic of Israel's military actions in the territory, announced that it was restricting exports ...

By JORGE RUEDA and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's once-powerful oil minister, who resigned unexpectedly last year during a corruption probe at the top ranks of the state-run crude industry, has been arrested, the government said Tuesday. The ...

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — This week's Champions League games are going ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat, the governing body of European soccer said Tuesday. Several posters circulated on social media alleging to be from the Al-Azaim Foundation — a media arm of ...

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians. Weeks of gang violence have forced some 18 hospitals to stop working and ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland's prime minister by a vote in parliament Tuesday, becoming at 37 the country's youngest-ever leader. Harris takes over as head of Ireland's three-party coalition government from Leo Varadkar, who ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Shelves have gone empty, as residents hunt in vain and resort to DIY alternatives. And surging resale prices are shocking even to Argentines accustomed to triple-digit inflation. The country's latest crisis: There isn't enough ...

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. In another video clip, a person plays with the genitals of a juvenile male ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Germany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations' top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other ...

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's Electoral Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office in the upcoming general election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls. The decision paves ...

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Ales Bialiatski marked his 1,000th day in prison in Belarus on Tuesday amid increasing fears about his deteriorating health, his wife said. Natalia Pinchuk told The Associated Press that ...

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Wednesday it had tested a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile powered with solid propellants, extending a run of weapons tests that's deepening a nuclear standoff with neighbors and the United States. With ...

By JOHNSON LAI and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing nine people, trapping dozens in quarries and sending some residents scrambling out the windows of ...

By HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Wednesday lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia's full-scale invasion. The new mobilization law ...

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into law in May last year. The law is supported by many in ...

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and train service interrupted. Taiwan is no stranger to ...

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press BOUAR, Central African Republic (AP) — The bodies of children killed in the crossfire lay on the ground. It was too much for the rebel. After a year of fighting rivals across Central African Republic, the abuses were mounting and he wanted out. The ...

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti's capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. More than 60% are headed to Haiti's rural ...

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Some of Israel's closest allies, including the United States, on Tuesday condemned the deaths of seven aid workers who were killed by airstrikes in Gaza — a loss that prompted multiple charities to suspend ...

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian drones attacked one of Russia's biggest oil refineries and a drone factory in the Russian province of Tatarstan, officials said Tuesday, in what appeared to be Kyiv's deepest strike inside Russian territory since the war ...