By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel pressed its offensive in Gaza on Wednesday, with at least 16 Palestinians reported killed across the strip as Hamas mulled its response to U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for the embattled ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president vowed Wednesday to sharply increase defense spending and build a more self-reliant military, as U.S. President Donald Trump's " America First" agenda raises questions about the U.S. ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church, raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be "pro-life." Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African opposition leader Julius Malema was found guilty Wednesday of breaking firearm laws in a 2018 incident where he was filmed firing a rifle at a political rally. The fiery politician, who leads the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters, was charged with ...
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and MALAK HARB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government fighters entered the city of Sweida over the summer in an apparent bid to assert control over the enclave of the Druze minority that for years had operated in semiautonomy. It backfired. Sectarian attacks ...
By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A parliamentary election in the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday could deprive Ukraine of a staunch supporter and put the Czechs on a course away from the European mainstream, following the pro-Russian path taken by Hungary and ...
By SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Qatar said Tuesday that further talks were needed over details of U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza, as Hamas weighed its reply. In Gaza, Israeli forces killed at least 36 ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military is sharing with European countries its expertise in fighting Russian drones, sending a mission to Denmark for joint exercises, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday. "Our military has begun ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have finally outmaneuvered Hamas. After facing months of genocide accusations, pariah status and global pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Netanyahu has agreed on a ceasefire plan with U.S. ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo on Tuesday convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and other charges and sentenced him to death. Kabila, who has been on trial in absentia since July and whose whereabouts are unknown, was accused of treason, involvement in an ...
PARIS (AP) — The South African ambassador to France, Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, known as Nathi Mthethwa, was found dead on Tuesday morning at the foot of a luxury hotel tower in western Paris, a French prosecutor said. The 58-year-old ambassador had been reported missing on Monday ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have finally outmaneuvered Hamas. After facing months of genocide accusations, pariah status and global pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Netanyahu has agreed on a ceasefire plan with U.S. ...
By SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli forces killed at least 31 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local hospitals said, as questions churned about U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza. Hamas ...
By NIRANJAN SHRESTHA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Trishna Shakya, 11, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace. As she rides a chariot bedecked in garlands of brilliant orange marigolds, a crowd of devotees lifts their ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan's outgoing prime minister and his South Korean counterpart underscored the need to strengthen cooperation between their nations, as U.S. President Donald Trump's transactional approach to allies and trade ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan urged the Taliban on Tuesday to restore internet and telecommunications access across the country, saying the blackout imposed by the government in Kabul has left the nation almost entirely cut off from the outside world. The outage, ...
By SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his support behind the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, the question now is whether Hamas will agree. Hamas faces a bitter tradeoff — the proposal demands that the militant group ...
By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's foreign minister has "renounced" her U.S. visa to protest a decision by the U.S. State Department to revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Colombian government said Monday. The ...
By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovans gave the country's pro-Western governing party a clear parliamentary majority in a weekend election, defeating pro-Russian groups in a vote widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West. European leaders Monday ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won't give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous international demands to do so, calling them crucial to keeping a "balance of ...