By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted Friday on allegations he and others tried to manipulate the investigation into a marine's drowning, in another criminal case against the ex-leader. Yoon earlier this year ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Leaders from the Group of 20 countries will meet for a summit in South Africa this weekend without any U.S. representatives after President Donald Trump announced a boycott over his widely rejected claims that the host country is ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site, according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press ABUJA, NIGERIA (AP) — A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kanu founded the Indigenous People of ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33, mostly ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33, mostly ...
By SAMYA KULLAB and ISOBEL KOSHIW Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to take stronger action to show accountability in the face of a corruption scandal presenting the greatest threat to his government since Russia's ...
By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The White House hit out Thursday at South Africa's leader for "running his mouth" over the United States' boycott of this weekend's Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg in another diplomatic rift ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site, according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian ...
By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and MICHELLE PRICE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A representative from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa will attend the formal handover ceremony at the end of this weekend's Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, but the United States will still not ...
By SAMYA KULLAB and ISOBEL KOSHIW Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to take stronger action to show accountability in the face of a corruption scandal presenting the greatest threat to his government since Russia's ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press ABUJA, NIGERIA (AP) — A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kanu founded the Indigenous People of ...
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog on Thursday demanded that Iran fully cooperate with the agency and provide "precise information" about its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, as well as grant its inspectors access to Iranian nuclear ...
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Thursday restored a nonpartisan caretaker government system for national elections but said it won't apply to the polls being held early next year. The caretaker system was introduced in 1996 and widely ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — FlyDubai, the lower-cost sister carrier of Emirates, said Wednesday it ordered 75 additional Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in a deal worth $13 billion. Emirates meanwhile bought eight Airbus A350-900 aircraft at a list price of ...
By TUNDE OMOLEHIN AND DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president postponed his trip to this weekend's Group of 20 summit after promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week in a northwestern region ...
By HUSSEIN MALLA, BASSEM MROUE and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — The Israeli military carried out barrages of airstrikes in southern Lebanon Wednesday on what it said were Hezbollah sites, including weapons storage facilities, after a drone strike earlier in the day ...
By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president Gustavo Petro has publicly released his bank records in an effort to demonstrate he has no ties to drug trafficking, an unsubstantiated claim made by U.S. President Donald Trump. Colombia's Financial ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday urged all nations to observe a truce during the Winter Olympics in Italy, saying a halt to fighting during one of the world's premiere sporting events can be "a tool to promote peace, ...
By ANTON L. DELGADO and SIBI ARASU Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — India is unlikely to submit its climate pledge before the end of the annual United Nations climate summit, raising questions about how the world's most populous nation can influence others on confronting climate ...