Sudan's paramilitary RSF and allies sign a deal to pave the way for parallel government By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allies have signed a charter that paved the way for the establishment of a parallel government, as ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SILVIA STELLACCI Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection, the Vatican said. The 88-year-old pope, who remains ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is delayed "until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies" at handovers of Israeli ...

PARIS (AP) — French anti-terrorism authorities say four people are in custody after a deadly stabbing in eastern France that authorities linked to Islamic radicalism. A Portuguese man was killed in the Saturday attack in the city of Mulhouse, near the German border. The anti-terrorism ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Six Israeli men held hostage in the Gaza Strip were freed Saturday, bringing to 25 the number of Israeli captives released by militants as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that began last month. They were ...

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is about to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial. While just one man is in the dock — a former surgeon accused of raping or sexual abusing 299 people, mostly child patients — activists hope the trial ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas is set to free six more Israeli hostages Saturday from the Gaza Strip, but the exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is shadowed by heightened tension between the adversaries that clouds the future of the fragile ceasefire deal. As preparations moved forward ...

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine approached the three-year mark of Russia's full-scale invasion, the country's hoped-for path to a favorable and lasting peace was upended in a matter of days by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Kyiv had ...

By ALAN SUDERMAN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Javier Milei is facing a corruption probe into his promotion of a meme coin, which is a highly speculative form of cryptocurrency that's surged in popularity after President Donald Trump ...

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump this week falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war that has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, causing outrage and alarm in a country that has spent nearly three years fighting back a much larger ...

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Foreign ministers and senior diplomats from leading rich and developing countries focused on global conflicts, mainly on the Russia-Ukraine war, on Friday, the last day of their meeting in South Africa. The ...

BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany's free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington, linking the country's limits against hate speech to American troops stationed there. German law sets restrictions on free speech, ...

By LORNE COOK and TARA COPP Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and suggested Kyiv should abandon hopes of winning all its territory back from Russia and instead prepare for a negotiated peace ...

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl's efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after his party won a national election. Austria's ...

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Jordan's King Abdullah II once again rejected any mass displacement of Palestinians after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has called for the Gaza Strip's roughly 2 million residents to be removed from the ...

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in Gaza and directed troops to prepare to resume fighting Hamas if the militant group does not r elease more hostages on ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration's plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and ...

By MATT O'BRIEN, THALIA BEATY and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers PARIS (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman's push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company. "We ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press KAFR AL-LABAD, West Bank (AP) — The call came in the middle of the night, Mohammed Shula said. His daughter-in-law, eight months pregnant with her first child, was whispering. There was panic in her voice. "Help, please," Shula recalled her saying. "You ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas' threat to delay the next planned release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip has jolted a fragile ceasefire that's seen as having the potential to wind down the war. It has brought new dismay for Israelis who watched the latest Hamas handover of hostages in ...