By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Inflation in crisis-prone Argentina accelerated more than expected and for a fifth straight month in January, the country's statistics agency said Tuesday, a closely watched report whose outdated methodology in recent days ...

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow will observe the limits of the last nuclear arms pact with the United States that expired last week as long as it sees that Washington is doing the same, Russia's top diplomat said Wednesday. The New START treaty expired Feb. 5, ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States are weighing holding a second round of talks over Tehran's nuclear program after Israel launched a 12-day war on the country in June and the Islamic Republic carried out a bloody crackdown on ...

By JULHAS ALAM, SHEIKH SAALIQ and AL EMRUN GARJON Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — When Tarique Rahman, the son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh, returned to the country in December after 17 years of self-imposed exile, he declared to his supporters: "I have a ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The father of a U.S.-based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities was convicted Wednesday for attempting to deal with his daughter's financial assets in the city, in the first court case of its kind brought under a homegrown national ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top Iranian security official traveled on Tuesday to Oman, the Mideast sultanate now mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program aimed at halting a possible American ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — The mayor of Ecuador's largest port city was arrested Tuesday on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, prosecutors in the South American country said. In a social media post, Ecuador's Attorney General's office said it detained an additional 10 people linked ...

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In an earlier era, Britain's royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Not during the reign of King Charles III. Since October, the king has stripped his ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just 19 months in office. The prime minister lost his chief of staff on Sunday ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's top prosecutor said on Monday that his office had requested the arrest of one of the closest allies of opposition leader María Corina Machado, less than 12 hours after his release from a detention facility as ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan's security, ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors said on Monday there is "overwhelming evidence" that Kosovo's former president and three other defendants are guilty of the murder and torture of people they considered traitors during the country's war for ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most recently served in Jordan has resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, the country's Foreign Ministry said. The ministry announced Mona Juul's ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israelis forces seized a local official with a Sunni Islamist group and an ally of the Palestinian militant Hamas group in an operation in southern Lebanon early on Monday, and took him to Israel for questioning, the Israeli military and Lebanese state media reported. Also on ...

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro recorded a thumping victory over hard-right populist André Ventura in Portugal's runoff presidential election Sunday, according to official results with 99% of votes ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, after lengthy politically motivated ...

By ANDREW DAMPF and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn's defiant bid to win the Winter Olympic downhill at the age of 41, on a rebuilt right knee and a badly injured left knee, ended Sunday in a frightening crash that left her with a broken leg and ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said Sunday, as Tehran cracks down on all dissent following nationwide protests and ...

PARIS (AP) — France's former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a tax investigation. He is the highest-profile figure in France impacted by the release of Epstein ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel 's security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority. The office of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement announced the ...