By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The UN refugee agency's representative in Lebanon said Thursday he hopes that at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return from Lebanon by the end of the year under a new government-backed return plan. Before former President Bashar Assad was ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The United States will deploy biometric technologies in partnership with Chile to control migration and disrupt criminal networks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday during a visit to the South American nation. "This arrangement is going to serve as ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Eighteen European Union countries have applied for billions of euros from a new defense fund aimed at helping Europe provide for its own security, the bloc's executive branch said Wednesday, with Poland seeking more than a third of the money. The Security Action for Europe ...

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, allows the U.N. to bring in aid and takes other steps toward long-term peace, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said ...

By GRANT PECK, JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia have reaffirmed their ceasefire intended to end five days of armed combat along their border after the accord got off to a shaky start. The agreement to stop fighting was reached ...

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's economy barely grew in the April-June quarter as frantic earlier efforts to ship goods ahead of new U.S. tariffs went into reverse and output fell for the continent's biggest economy, Germany. Gross domestic product ...

By JAMEY KEATEN and DIDI TANG Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The United States and China have agreed to work on extending a deadline for new tariffs on each other after two days of trade talks in Stockholm concluded on Tuesday, according to Beijing's lead negotiator. The U.S. side says ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An attack by an armed group on a military base in northern Burkina Faso has left about 50 soldiers dead, according to accounts by a community leader and a resident on Tuesday. The Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin group, or JNIM, was suspected of carrying out the ...

By HANNA ARHIROVA and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Glide bombs and ballistic missiles struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility overnight as Russia's relentless strikes on civilian areas killed at least 27 people across the country, officials said Tuesday, ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children, ...

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he intends to shorten the 50-day deadline he gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to reach a deal that ends the three-year war in Ukraine, after Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian ...

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The United States and the European Union agreed on Sunday to a trade framework setting a 15% tariff on most goods, staving off — at least for now — far higher import duties on both sides that might have sent shock waves ...

By EILEEN NG, JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an "unconditional" ceasefire starting at midnight, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Monday, a significant breakthrough to resolve five days of ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together this week to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict that would place their peoples side by side, living in ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military Sunday began limited pauses in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, part of measures including airdrops as concerns grow over surging hunger and ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian parliament's upper house on Friday quickly approved a bill that punishes online searches for information officially branded "extremist," the latest in a series of moves by authorities to tighten control of the internet. The legislation makes what it describes as ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The rebel Houthi group in Yemen has said it will target merchant ships belonging to any company that does business with Israeli ports, regardless of nationality, as part of what it described as the next phase of its operations against Israel. The Iran-backed Houthis ...

BY ISABEL DEBRE and NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press ARICA, Chile (AP) — The Venezuelan gang members wrote out even their most minute purchases in blue pen: $15 for a drug trafficker's Uber; $9 for instant coffee during a lookout shift; $34 for supplies to clean what investigators learned ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press BIDDU, West Bank (AP) — When Sayfollah Musallet of Tampa, Florida, was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank two weeks ago, he became the fourth Palestinian-American killed in the occupied territory since the war in Gaza began. No one has ...

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Britain and Australia announced they will sign a cooperation treaty to build Australian nuclear-powered submarines and welcomed a review by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration of the United States' role in the trilateral ...