By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A U.S. official focusing on arms control on Monday provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago and urged countries to press China and Russia to do more on nuclear ...

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's largest remaining rebel group declared a unilateral ceasefire Monday ahead of next month's high-stakes congressional elections, which have already been marred by acts of violence against candidates in rural areas. The ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court told judges on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte encouraged death squads to carry out extrajudicial killings using fear and financial rewards. The court in ...

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top diplomats met Monday in Brussels with the director of the Board of Peace after a shaky and controversial embrace of U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to secure and rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Nikolay ...

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army killed the country's most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States' most wanted fugitives, notching a major victory while cartel members responded with a wave of violence across the country. The killing Sunday ...

By HOGIR AL ABDO, GHAITH ALSAYED and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — U.S. forces are withdrawing from a key base in northeastern Syria, officials said Monday, in what appears to be part of a larger drawdown of U.S. forces in Syria. Iraqi and Syrian security ...

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Rob Jetten has become the youngest and first openly gay prime minister of the Netherlands. Before Jetten, 38, took the oath of office on Monday to lead a minority three-party ruling coalition, Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court Monday dismissed all appeals in the city's biggest case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law, upholding the convictions and sentences of pro-democracy activists. Those who appealed were among 47 activists ...

By MUNIR AHMED and ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan's military killed at least 70 militants in strikes along the border with Afghanistan early Sunday, targeting what it described as hideouts of Pakistani militants it blamed for recent attacks inside ...

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army killed the country's most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States' most wanted fugitives on Sunday, notching a major victory while cartel members responded with a wave violence across the country. The killing ...

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reelected to the top post of the ruling Workers' Party, with delegates crediting him for bolstering the country's nuclear arsenal and strengthening its regional standing, state media reported ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive arm requested "full clarity" from the United States and asked its trade partner to fulfill its commitments after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down some of President Donald Trump's most sweeping tariffs. Trump has lashed out at the court ...

By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East. Huckabee made the comments in an interview with ...

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. Olympic team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday, with at least one more good possibility when its men's hockey team wraps up the action on closing day with the title game against ...

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the U.K. and its European allies should immediately deploy noncombat troops to Ukraine to show Russian President Vladimir Putin that Western nations are truly committed to the nation's freedom ...

By SAM McNEIL and CLAUDIA CIOBANU Associated Press WARSAW (AP) — Five European nations have announced a new program to produce low-cost air defense systems and autonomous drones using Ukrainian expertise hard-won over the past four years of war against Russia. Friday's initiative of the ...

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country's history. OpenAI said last June the company ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Members of Venezuela 's opposition, prisoners' rights groups and relatives of people long detained for political reasons gave a lukewarm reception Friday to an amnesty measure expected to free hundreds of people, including ...

By CÉSAR OLMOS Associated Press FLOREANA ISLAND, Ecuador (AP) — Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galápagos archipelago, the species made a comeback Friday, when dozens of juvenile hybrids were released to begin restoring the ...