By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China said Sunday it would resume some ties it had suspended with Taiwan such as direct flights and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products following a visit by the Beijing-friendly opposition leader of the self-ruled island. The Taiwan Work ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A new study says that 2025 saw the highest number of deaths from antisemitic attacks in over 30 years around the world. Twenty people were killed across four continents, including 15 at a Hanukkah event in Sydney. The report released ...
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — For a factory worker in Haiti, the war in distant Iran means he now has to walk two hours to work and the same distance home each day, because he can no longer afford public transportation. On a recent morning, ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's next president is being chosen from among 35 candidates, including a former minister, a comedian and a political dynasty heiress. Voting is mandatory for most adults in Peru, but logistical issues meant some ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Women in black screamed in grief and toddlers sobbed uncontrollably, calling out for their dead fathers and uncles. Men in uniforms, pistols strapped to their belts, wept openly for their comrades at the funerals on Saturday for 13 ...
By The Associated Press undefined TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians reacted with a mixture of disappointment and defiance on Sunday after peace talks with the United States failed to reach an agreement following hourslong negotiations. U.S. officials said the talks collapsed over what they ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the "delusion of omnipotence" that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. Leo presided over an evening prayer service in St. ...
By JUSTIN SPIKE and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian voters have ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in ...
PARIS (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has been rescued after living locked in his father's utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father detained. Police were alerted by a neighbor to the "sounds of a child'' coming from a ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the U.S. has no valid reason to attack the island or to try to depose him. In an interview aired NBC News on Sunday, he warned that an invasion would be costly and affect regional security. He said Cubans would defend ...
LONDON (AP) — London police arrested more than 200 people on Saturday during a protest against a ban on the group Palestine Action that the government has labeled a terrorist organization. Metropolitan Police said they had detained 212 protesters between the ages of 27 and 82 for supporting ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament voted Saturday to elect Nizar Amidi, a political official with one of the country's two main Kurdish parties, as president, five months after a parliamentary election that didn't produce a bloc with a decisive ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un voiced support for China's push to build a "multipolar world" and called for deeper ties between the traditional allies during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, state media said ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Delcy Rodríguez remained Venezuela's acting president on Monday, exceeding the 90-day limit on her temporary role set by the country's high court following the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro in January. However, it's ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's spy agency says it's now fair to view the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as his heir, its strongest assessment yet on the rising political status of the girl who it believes could extend her ...
By SERRA YEDIKARDES and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed concern that a prolonged U.S.-Israeli war on Iran could further erode America's support for Ukraine as Washington's global priorities shift and Kyiv braces for reduced ...
By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people around the world in need, and that the suffering will deepen if the violence ...
By SAM MEDNICK, SAMY MAGDY and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz by his Monday deadline and Tehran called his threat "unbalanced and foolish." The search for a missing U.S. military pilot ...
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The disciplinary body for China 's Communist Party said Friday it has placed the former Xinjiang party chief under investigation over suspected violations of discipline and law. Ma Xingrui is a member of the party's Central Committee and ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's parliament on Friday elected Min Aung Hlaing, a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as the country's new president. The move marks a nominal return to an elected government but is ...