By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Leaders of six Western Balkan nations met British and European officials in London on Wednesday for talks on migration, security and economic growth in a volatile region where Russia seeks to wield influence. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told ...
By MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Pretoria High Court on Wednesday ordered former South African President Jacob Zuma to pay back the Office of the State Attorney 28.9 million rand (about $1.6 million) for the legal fees incurred over the years in his private ...
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations chief delivered a strong defense of science and meteorology on Wednesday, praising the U.N. weather agency for helping save lives by keeping watch for climate disasters around the world. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to the World Meteorological ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice said on Wednesday that Israel must allow the U.N. aid agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance to the war-torn territory. The U.N. General Assembly asked the court ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Two journalists, one imprisoned in Belarus and the other in Georgia, have won the European Union's top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced on Wednesday. Andrzej Poczobut is a ...
By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A British woman will avoid execution for drug smuggling in Indonesia under an agreement signed Tuesday between the two nations to repatriate her and another Briton serving a life sentence. Lindsay Sandiford, 68, has been ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants have so far released the remains of 15 hostages that were held in Gaza for the past two years as part of the ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Hamas war. But the process of returning the bodies of the last 13 ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea performed its first ballistic missile tests in five months Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders are expected to meet in South Korea. South Korea's military said it ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan's exports grew 4.2% in September, according to government data Wednesday, on robust shipments to Asia that offset a decline in exports to the U.S., which were impacted by President Donald Trump's tariffs. Japan's exports to Asia ...
By RENATA BRITO, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KIRYAT GAT, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday called progress in Gaza's fragile ceasefire better than anticipated but acknowledged during an Israel visit the challenges that remain, from disarming Hamas to ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala passed a new anti-gang law on Tuesday aimed at giving the government more resources to fight the groups, which are now considered terrorist organizations. The law designates the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs as terrorist groups, increases prison ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Once the most powerful person in France, Nicolas Sarkozy is now behind bars. Being locked up in Paris' La Santé prison for criminal conspiracy is the latest twist in the uncommon life of the 70-year-old former president. Proudly tough on ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister, and she underlined her commitment to boosting Japanese defense as she prepared to host visiting U.S. President Donald Trump ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister, and she underlined her commitment to boosting Japanese defense as she prepared to host visiting U.S. President Donald Trump ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn't include their historical value to France. Prosecutor ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing bloc further to the ...
By SYLVIE CORBET and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya — a historic moment ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war is expected to cost about $216 billion, the World Bank said in an assessment published Tuesday. The cost is almost ten times Syria's 2024 gross domestic product. Syria's civil war began in 2011 when mass protests ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday to shore up the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that has teetered over the past few days following a burst of deadly violence and questions over how ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Share prices have soared recently in Tokyo on hopes that conservative Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be Japan's first female prime minister, will double down on market friendly policies, including hefty spending ...