By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects. Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie's archive, which opens to the public this week. The 90,000 ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The administration of Argentina's President Javier Milei resurrected the country's interior ministry on Wednesday in a rare bid to build alliances with opposition governors days after his party lost by a landslide in a key ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen broke Wednesday with her pro-Israel stance and announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over its military campaign in Gaza. The 27-nation EU is ...
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have granted recognition to same-sex partnerships in the Chinese city, despite the rights offered being limited, in a major setback to the LGBTQ+ movement. The Registration of ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A court in Johannesburg sentenced seven Chinese nationals on Wednesday to terms of 20 years in prison each for trafficking people from Malawi and forcing them to work at a factory in South Africa. The group was convicted on Feb. 25 ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held talks with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Wednesday about maritime security and bilateral efforts to fight transnational drug smuggling. Noem said during a joint appearance in ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's most powerful official warned Wednesday that Europe is battling against a series of threats posed by Russia, new global trade challenges and even other major world powers and must stake claim to its independence. In a ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck and destroyed another high-rise building in Gaza City on Monday after warning residents to evacuate, part of an offensive aimed at taking over the largest Palestinian city. The ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial ...
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI and AMANUEL GEBREMEDHIN BIRHANE Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Fanuse Adete is among those Ethiopians looking forward to finally getting connected to the national electricity grid when the Grand Renaissance Dam, which will be inaugurated Tuesday, becomes ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband's relatives with death cap mushrooms. Justice Christopher ...
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa's incumbent ruling party will return to power with a new leader at the helm after the first woman prime minister was toppled in elections that followed months of political turmoil. FAST, the former political ...
By BABA AHMED and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A West African armed group affiliated to al-Qaida set fire to fuel tankers in Mali over the weekend, videos showed, as the militants sought to tighten their grip on the country's economy by banning fuel imports from ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets on Sunday, the country's Independence Day, to rally against the Supreme Court ahead of its verdict this week in ...
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) — An American social media influencer who was stuck in a Chilean airbase in Antarctica for two months and initially charged for submitting a false flight plan, on Saturday returned to the mainland. Ethan Guo, who was 19 years old when he began his fundraising mission ...
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia hit Ukraine's capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack since the war began, killing four people across the country and damaging a key government building. Russia attacked with 810 drones and decoys, ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign, following growing calls from within his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election. Ishiba, who took office in October, said ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAM METZ and FATMA KHALED Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel began mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists and repeated evacuation warnings on Tuesday as part of its plan to widen its offensive in Gaza City, which has sparked opposition ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 14,000 mainly Venezuelan migrants who hoped to reach the United States have reversed course and turned south since U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown began, according to a report published Friday by the ...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban said the death toll from a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan passed 1,400 on Tuesday, with more than 3,000 people injured, as the United Nations warned of an exponential rise in casualties. The figures provided by Taliban government spokesman ...