By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Green Party won a special parliamentary election in England on Friday, a big boost for the small party and a blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose center-left Labour Party was relegated to third place. Green candidate Hannah Spencer ...
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ, MILEXSY DURÁN AND DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Thursday that the island's government is communicating with U.S. officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters. Carlos Fernández de Cossío ...
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE AND MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The United States and Congo signed a $1.2 billion health partnership Thursday, the two countries' governments said in a joint statement. The Department of State said it will provide up to $900 million over the ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations on Thursday said would be a first. When the wife of President Donald Trump takes her seat in the president's chair on ...
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities and a civil society group said Thursday that mass graves were found in part of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is making his first trip to India this week in his latest effort to diversify trade away from the United States and restore relations with the world's fourth-largest economy. Carney was set to arrive in ...
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Uruguay and Argentina on Thursday became the first founding members of the Mercosur bloc of South American nations to ratify a long-sought free-trade agreement with the European Union to establish one of the world's largest free-trade zones. The deal has been negotiated ...
By JAMES BROOKS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday called an early general election for March 24 as the country digests the recent standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump over his designs on the ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed his nuclear-armed country could "completely destroy" South Korea if its security were threatened, reiterating his refusal to engage with Seoul, state media said Thursday. However, he left ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said on Thursday it would back efforts to financially support women seeking access to abortions, after a multiyear campaign by more than a million citizens across the 27-nation bloc to expand support for women in nations ...
By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Islamic militant groups have stepped up attacks and deepened their presence in border areas of Benin, Niger and Nigeria in West Africa over the past year, a crisis monitoring group said Thursday. From 2024 to 2025, the number of ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to stand with Israel in "opposing terrorism and its supporters" as he wrapped up a two-day visit on Thursday focused on boosting cooperation on security issues and defense. The two countrues also announced they would hold ...
BERLIN (AP) — A German court said Thursday that the country's domestic intelligence agency can't label the Alternative for Germany party a proven right-wing extremist group while it considers a complaint by the opposition party against last year's designation. The BfV intelligence agency ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran pushed back Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trump's pressure tactics ahead of critical talks in Geneva over Tehran's nuclear program, alternating between calling his remarks "big lies" and saying negotiations ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on four commanders of Sudan's warring paramilitary force suspected of atrocities against civilians that U.N. experts said showed "hallmarks of genocide." The four commanders in the Rapid ...
By MATTHEW LEE and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday defended the Trump administration's military operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, telling Caribbean leaders, many of whom objected to that ...
By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia freed and deported an American man Tuesday after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend's mother on the island of Bali, but he's still on the hook for federal charges back ...
By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil (AP) — Families of those killed in the devastating floods in southeastern Brazil began burying the dead on Wednesday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 in the state of Minas Gerais. All the victims ...
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As the sun rose, a handful of women opened tattered beach umbrellas in the heart of Port-au-Prince and scanned the horizon before opening their fruit and vegetable stands. It was unusually quiet in Carrefour ...
By JULIA FRANKEL and NATALIE MELZER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a rousing welcome from Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday at the start of a two-day visit as he promised "friendship, respect and partnership" with Israel at a time when its world ...