By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court want Hungary to explain why it failed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest earlier this month. In a filing released late Wednesday, The ...
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more work is needed to confirm their findings. The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, detected ...
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Foreign ministry officials from Bangladesh's interim government and Pakistan resumed talks on Thursday after a 15-year gap, as the two South Asian Muslim-majority nations attempted to ease strained relations. Under former Prime ...
Associated Press undefined MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago. The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, FATMA KHALED and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel's blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where it has barred entry of all food and other goods for more than six weeks. Thousands of children have ...
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank cut interest rates Thursday for the seventh time to counter worries about economic growth fueled by President Donald Trump's tariff onslaught. The bank's move should support economic activity in the 20 ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar's military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an independent watchdog said they included at least 22 political detainees. At least 19 buses with prisoners ...
By RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A 24-year-old American YouTuber who was arrested after visiting an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean with hopes of establishing contact with a reclusive tribe was further detained in custody on Thursday. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov ...
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese military said it has detained a group of people linked to firing rockets into Israel last month. The army said in a statement late Wednesday that those detained included a number of Palestinians who were involved in firing ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza was honored Thursday as World Press Photo of the year. The photo, taken by Qatar-based Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry reported Thursday. Japan's global trade deficit totaled 5.2 trillion yen ($37 billion) for the fiscal year through ...
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Malaysia's leader Wednesday that China will be a collaborative partner and stand with its Southeast Asian neighbors in the wake of global economic shocks. "In the face of shocks to global order and economic ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday threatened unspecified retaliation after the U.S. flew long-range bombers over South Korea during training with South Korean warplanes, which North Korea views as practice for an attack against it. The ...
By ISAAC SCHARF, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks that could further complicate talks with Hamas over a ...
By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Peru's former First Lady Nadine Heredia and her youngest son arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after the neighboring country granted her asylum, her lawyer and the foreign ministries of both countries ...
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A notorious paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military said it's forming a rival government that will rule parts of the country controlled by the group, including the western Darfur region where the United Nations says recent ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world's newest nation from again plunging into civil war. Nicholas Haysom warned that the escalating ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union pledged hundreds of millions of dollars Tuesday to ease suffering in Sudan, on the second anniversary of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 14 million and pushed large parts of the ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's chief trade negotiator will visit the United States this week for talks aimed at convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to remove tariff measures against the East Asian country, officials said Tuesday. Economic Revitalization ...
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of "stability and certainty." On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam's President ...