By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK and ALEX BABENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians were cautious Wednesday in their response to a surprise pivot in U.S. President Donald Trump's views on their prospects for defeating Russia's invasion, after he said they could win the three-year war ...
By KANIS LEUNG and NG HAN GUAN Associated Press SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years, whipped waves taller than lampposts onto Hong Kong promenades and turned seas rough on the southern Chinese coast on Wednesday after leaving deadly ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used his speech at the United Nations General-Assembly to criticize the unilateral moves by his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump. He will leave with a pledge to discuss ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Seven Indigenous groups in Ecuador's Amazon have denounced a government plan to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration, saying it threatens their ancestral lands and violates constitutional protections. The criticism ...
By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Twenty-three workers were rescued Wednesday after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia. The miners were met with applause as they emerged from the La Reliquia mine, located in the ...
By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — President Donald Trump excoriated European leaders about their efforts to slow irregular migration, claiming they have done little to prevent an influx of outsiders that has transformed the continent. However, Trump's claims during an ...
LONDON (AP) — A family of three, including a small child, have become the first people sent to the U.K. by France under an agreement in which Britain returns migrants who enter the country without authorization and France sends vetted asylum-seekers. The Home Office said Wednesday that the ...
By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town of Maniitsoq terminated her pregnancy, they fitted her ...
By MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader's repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end the ...
By AAMER MADHANI and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined ...
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, JON GAMBRELL and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday rejected direct negotiations with the United States over his country's nuclear program, likely slamming the door shut on a last-ditch effort to halt the reimposition ...
By JOSEPH KRAUSS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A day after France led other nations in recognizing Palestinian statehood, the U.N. Security Council once again aired a deep divide between the veto-wielding United States and most of the rest of the world over how ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent months. Barrio 18, largely based in El Salvador, ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allege his involvement in the killings of at least 76 people while he was president and earlier a southern mayor, the International Criminal Court has revealed. The redacted ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the U.N. General Assembly, he proved it. Blocked on Monday night by police officers when he sought to cross a ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO allies on Tuesday held formal consultations at Estonia's request after the Baltic country said that three Russian fighter jets entered its airspace last week without authorization. Russia's Defense Ministry denied the accusation. The intrusion on Friday lasted 12 minutes ...
BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China are "talking past each other" on key issues, according to a U.S. lawmaker leading a bipartisan congressional delegation visiting Beijing on Tuesday — the first visit from the House of Representatives to China since 2019. Led by Rep. Adam Smith, a ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO warned Russia on Tuesday that it would use all means to defend against any further breaches of its airspace after the downing earlier this month of Russian drones over Poland and Estonia's report of an intrusion by Russian fighter jets ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allege his involvement in the killings of at least 76 people while he was president and earlier a southern mayor, the International Criminal Court has revealed. The redacted ...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The annual high-level gathering at the U.N. General Assembly this week will see more than 140 world leaders descend upon New York City in an effort to secure global peace and security despite growing divides on how to do ...