By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI PRISTINA, Kosovo
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo's Parliament on Friday ended an eight-month political deadlock by electing its full leadership, including a representative from the ethnic Serb minority, clearing the path for the formation of a new ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Friday rejected a request from former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to be released from detention, finding he was likely to refuse to return for trial and could use his ...
By KEN MORITSUGU and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan will accelerate the building of a "Taiwan Shield" or "T-Dome" air defense system in the face of the military threat from China, its leader said Friday.
President Lai Ching-te also pledged to raise defense ...
PARIS (AP) — After a week of intense political turmoil, French President Emmanuel Macron is set to appoint a new prime minister Friday in his latest bid to break the political deadlock that has gripped the country for more than a year, as France struggles with mounting economic challenges and ...
By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A U.S. peace plan has propelled former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the forefront of efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. While his legacy in the Middle East is controversial, especially given his ...
By KOSTYA MANENKOV, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Thursday requested an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council focused on the U.S. military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country.
Venezuela made the request in a letter addressed to Russia's ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Thursday that 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid is ready to enter Gaza and that it is seeking a green light from Israel to massively increase help for more ...
By ANSELM GIBBS Associated Press
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The U.S. has granted Trinidad and Tobago permission to negotiate a gas deal with neighboring Venezuela without facing any U.S. sanctions, the Caribbean nation's attorney general said Thursday.
The U.S. Treasury Department ...
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia's air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first public admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease ...
By ALON BERNSTEIN and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
REIM, Israel (AP) — Thousands of people converged on southern Israel on Tuesday to mourn the dead as the nation marked two years since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war, while Israel and Hamas pressed on ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Deloitte Australia will partially refund the 440,000 Australian dollars ($290,000) paid by the Australian government for a report that was littered with apparent AI-generated errors, including a fabricated quote from a federal ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is considering prioritizing white South Africans in a dramatically decreased quota of refugees allowed into the United States this fiscal year.
Trump is considering cutting the number of refugee ...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone conversation Monday to lift the 40% tariff imposed by the U.S. government on Brazilian imports.
The leaders spoke for 30 minutes, exchanged phone numbers, and Lula ...
By RAJESH ROY Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's leading body of pilots has asked the civil aviation regulator to inspect all Boeing 787 Dreamliners operating in the country for electrical issues after one of the planes abruptly deployed an emergency power system midair over the ...
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin on Monday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about Russia's offer to extend the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States, saying it raises hope for keeping the pact alive after it expires in ...
By KOSTYA MANENKOV, LAURAN NEERGAARD and LINDSEY WASSON Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — France's new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than a month in office and less than 24 hours after naming a new government that prompted a key coalition ally to withdraw support. The move plunged the country ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in a campaign of atrocities committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur more than 20 years ago — including ...
By CARA ANNA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas are set to begin indirect talks on ending the war in Gaza Monday after both sides signaled support for U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan.
The talks in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh are brokered ...