JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian authorities said Sunday that local elections in a single Gaza community and the Israeli-occupied West Bank were a success and called them a step toward a long-delayed presidential election in the territories and eventual statehood. The Palestinian Authority, ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Israeli political heavyweights on Sunday said they would join forces in elections scheduled for later this year in an effort to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid served as prime ministers in a rotation agreement as part of ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Four candidates vying to lead the United Nations have spent hours being grilled about their views on issues from restoring global peace to ending escalating poverty — in what the U.N. General Assembly president called one of the ...
By SAM METZ and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The vote in central ...
By MUNIR AHMED, SAMY MAGDY and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The latest ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran appeared to fail Saturday before they began, as Tehran's top diplomat left Pakistan and President Donald Trump soon afterward said he had told envoys ...
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not take his seat in parliament following a landslide election loss this month, and will instead focus on rebuilding his nationalist-populist political community, he announced ...
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union's ongoing push to bolster its own defensive capabilities isn't intended to spawn an alternative to the NATO alliance but to answer a long-standing U.S. call for the continent to take charge of its own ...
By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn't alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. In the letter ...
By BASSAM HATOUM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese journalist who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague this week described hours of agony as they waited for help to arrive, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. Zeinab Faraj, ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine haven't stopped despite the Iran war, and Ukrainian long-range strikes continue to hammer Russian oil production and manufacturing plants, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed charges of crimes against humanity against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for deadly anti-drug crackdowns he allegedly oversaw while in office. A ...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Havana will not abide by any American "ultimatums" to release political prisoners as part of new talks, a Cuban diplomat said Thursday, while asserting that leaders are "preparing for all scenarios" if U.S. President Donald Trump ...
By JON GAMBRELL, JAMEY KEATEN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to "shoot and kill" small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he said Thursday, a day after Iran again displayed its ...
By LORNE COOK, JUSTIN SPIKE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Thursday approved a 90-billion-euro ($106-billion) loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years after oil began flowing through a key pipeline to Hungary ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's top police official was suspended by the president on Thursday after he was charged with breaking finance laws related to an allegedly corrupt police contract. Fannie Masemola appeared in court on Tuesday and was set to return alongside 12 other senior ...
By JON GAMBRELL and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military on Thursday seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Iran a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two ...
By HUIZHONG WU and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China's role as an unofficial mediator in the latest war in the Middle East is drawing attention across the world as it seeks to project the image of being a responsible global power while U.S. actions are straining its ...
LONDON (AP) — Opponents of smoking got a breath of fresh air as Parliament passed a bill that will put cigarettes out of reach for future generations. "The end of smoking, and the devastating harm it causes, is no longer uncertain — it's inevitable," Hazel Cheeseman, chief executive of ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY and MARTÍN SILVA REY Associated Press SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACAN, Mexico (AP) — Officers with bomb-sniffing dogs circled cars and searched bags of tourists filing into historic pyramids outside of Mexico City on Wednesday just days after a man opened fire on tourists. The ...
By STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A court in Moldova sentenced a former opposition leader and one of the nation's richest men on Wednesday to 19 years in a fraud case that saw a billion dollars stolen from several of the impoverished European ...