MILAN (AP) — A rescue operation was underway Monday to free a cave explorer who was injured by falling rocks some 40 meters (more than 130 feet) below the surface in Italy's Piedmont region while on an outing with a group of friends, according to the country's mountain rescue corps. Medical ...
By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. envoy doubled down on Washington's support for the new government in Syria, saying Monday there is "no Plan B" to working with the current authorities to unite the country still reeling from a nearly 14-year civil war and now wracked by ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising prices and high U.S. tariffs after a weekend election defeat left his coalition with a minority in both parliamentary chambers and ...
By GHAITH ALSAYED and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BUSRA AL-HARIR, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government on Monday started evacuating Bedouin families trapped inside the city of Sweida, where Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters have clashed for over a week. The clashes between militias ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Typhoon Wipha toppled trees and caused major flight disruptions Sunday in Hong Kong and at some nearby airports in China as it moved west off the southern coast of the country. Airports in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and the casino hub of Macao canceled or postponed flights ...
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China's stock market is buzzing over government promises to tackle price wars that have hurt profits and worsened global trade tensions. The prevailing catchphrase is "anti-involution," and it reflects efforts to curb intense competition and ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program are being held in solitary confinement in various prisons for an ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump met five African leaders in Washington in July, his lack of familiarity with the continent was on display. He praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai's English — Liberia's official language — ...
By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, authorities said on Friday, in a move he described as "a supreme humiliation." The development came as federal police conducted searches at his home ...
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany deported dozens of Afghan men to their homeland on Friday, the second time it has done so since the Taliban returned to power and the first since a new government pledging a tougher line on migration took office in Berlin. German ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan will not provoke a confrontation with China, the self-ruled island's vice president said Friday, lamenting Beijing's "aggressive military posturing" against the island democracy that China claims as its own. "We do not seek ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Libyan accused by the International Criminal Court of crimes against humanity and war crimes was arrested in Germany on a sealed arrest warrant, the court announced Friday. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was allegedly one of ...
By COLLEEN BARRY and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy. He ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel has refused to renew visas for the heads of at least three United Nations agencies in Gaza, which the U.N. humanitarian chief blames on their work trying to protect Palestinian civilians in the war-torn territory. Visas for ...
By JILL LAWLESS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a landmark treaty on Thursday that pledges to tighten defense ties, as European nations try to protect Ukraine, and themselves, from an aggressive ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy monsoon rains killed at least 54 people in eastern Pakistan in 24 hours, bringing the total rain-related deaths in the country to 178 over the past three weeks, officials said Thursday. Rainfall has triggered flash floods and inundated several villages as the country ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A bill to overhaul environmental regulations in Brazil was passed by the country's lower house Thursday, drawing criticism by the environmental minister who floated the possibility of a presidential ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country's deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. The center-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA, and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said. They were ...