By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday. The women and children from 11 ...

By JAMEY KEATEN and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Iran's top diplomat met with the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency Monday, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas ...

BEIRUT (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino received a Lebanese passport at the Interior Ministry in Beirut on Monday, months after he was granted citizenship by the country's president. Infantino, who is married to Lebanese citizen Lina al-Ashkar, thanked President Joseph Aoun at a ...

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Drivers in Cuba are facing the prospects of waiting several months to refuel their cars, as fuel shortages caused by a U.S. oil siege intensify. To avoid chaos outside gas stations, Cuba's government last week made it obligatory for ...

By SAM METZ Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli prosecutors said Monday that they plan to charge a settler in the killing of a Palestinian activist during a confrontation that was caught on video, opening a rare prosecution of violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied ...

By GERALD IMRAY and NALOVA AKUA Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A new group of third-country nationals was deported by the United States to Cameroon on Monday, lawyers told The Associated Press, days after it came to light that the Trump administration sent nine people to the ...

By AARÓN IBARRA and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press CONCORDIA, Mexico (AP) — Deep in the coastal mountains above the sparkling Pacific resort of Mazatlan, towns spaced along a twisting road appear nearly deserted, the quiet broken only by the occasional passing truck. It was near one of ...

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old defendant who they say planned to carry out an attack on one of superstar singer Taylor Swift's concerts in Vienna in August 2024. Vienna public prosecutors said in a statement that the ...

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 ...