By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. forces have fully withdrawn from an air base in western Iraq in implementation of an agreement with the Iraqi government, Iraqi officials said Saturday. Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024 to wind down a U.S.-led coalition ...
By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought landmark free trade agreement on Saturday, capping more than a quarter-century of torturous negotiations to strengthen ...
By DANIEL NIEMANN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don't back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought ...
By JON GAMBRELL and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday celebrated the expected signing of the free trade agreement between the EU and four South American countries the ...
By TOQA EZZIDIN, FATMA KHALED and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The White House released the names of some of the leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza after the Palestinian committee set to govern the territory under U.S. supervision met for the ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military-backed political party extended its lead after the second round of voting, official figures from the country's election body showed Friday, leaving it on track for a parliamentary majority as the country heads into the final phase of its three-stage general ...
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Cubans demonstrated Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the U.S. government release former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. They ...
By STELLA MARTANY and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran's violent crackdown on protests. Members of the National Army ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations. Yoon ...
By CHAN HO-HIM AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — U.S. businesses are more concerned about China's slowing economy than trade friction, according to a survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China released Friday. Of 368 companies responding to the survey, 64% viewed slowing growth ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez used her first state of the union message Thursday to advocate for opening the crucial state-run oil industry to more foreign investment following the Trump administration's ...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After weeks of escalating tension, U.S. and Iranian officials faced each other Thursday at the U.N. Security Council, where America's envoy renewed threats against the Islamic Republic despite President Donald ...
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Trumpets and drums played solemnly at Havana's airport Thursday as white-gloved Cuban soldiers marched out of a plane carrying urns with remains of the 32 Cuban officers killed during a stunning U.S. attack on ...
By CHAN HO-HIM and DIDI TANG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The United States and Taiwan reached a trade deal Thursday that cuts tariffs on Taiwanese goods in exchange for $250 billion in new investments in the U.S. tech industry. The deal is the latest President Donald Trump has ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM METZ Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza on Thursday killed nine people, including three women, a day after the U.S. announced that the fragile ceasefire would advance to its second phase. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain's Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief lashed out Thursday at countries that violate international law and called the concentration of power and wealth by the world's richest 1% "morally indefensible." At the start of his final year at the helm ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The White House says it is moving into the second phase of President Donald Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan – breathing new life into a proposal that aims to rebuild the war-ravaged area and reshape the wider Middle East. Trump's Mideast ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM METZ Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cast the U.S. announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its more ...