By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank cut interest rates Thursday for the seventh time to counter worries about economic growth fueled by President Donald Trump's tariff onslaught. The bank's move should support economic activity in the 20 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar's military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an independent watchdog said they included at least 22 political detainees. At least 19 buses with prisoners ...

By RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A 24-year-old American YouTuber who was arrested after visiting an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean with hopes of establishing contact with a reclusive tribe was further detained in custody on Thursday. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov ...

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese military said it has detained a group of people linked to firing rockets into Israel last month. The army said in a statement late Wednesday that those detained included a number of Palestinians who were involved in firing ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza was honored Thursday as World Press Photo of the year. The photo, taken by Qatar-based Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf ...

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry reported Thursday. Japan's global trade deficit totaled 5.2 trillion yen ($37 billion) for the fiscal year through ...

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Malaysia's leader Wednesday that China will be a collaborative partner and stand with its Southeast Asian neighbors in the wake of global economic shocks. "In the face of shocks to global order and economic ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday threatened unspecified retaliation after the U.S. flew long-range bombers over South Korea during training with South Korean warplanes, which North Korea views as practice for an attack against it. The ...

By ISAAC SCHARF, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks that could further complicate talks with Hamas over a ...

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Peru's former First Lady Nadine Heredia and her youngest son arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after the neighboring country granted her asylum, her lawyer and the foreign ministries of both countries ...

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A notorious paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military said it's forming a rival government that will rule parts of the country controlled by the group, including the western Darfur region where the United Nations says recent ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world's newest nation from again plunging into civil war. Nicholas Haysom warned that the escalating ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union pledged hundreds of millions of dollars Tuesday to ease suffering in Sudan, on the second anniversary of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 14 million and pushed large parts of the ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's chief trade negotiator will visit the United States this week for talks aimed at convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to remove tariff measures against the East Asian country, officials said Tuesday. Economic Revitalization ...

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of "stability and certainty." On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam's President ...

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft "pandemic treaty" that sets guidelines for how the international community ...

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known ...

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — For weeks, the family had been on the move. Israeli troops had forced them from home during a military operation that has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. After finding shelter in a wedding ...

By BRIAN MELLEY, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish ...

ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — NATO's support for Ukraine remains "unwavering," the alliance's secretary-general said Tuesday, emphasizing that more than 20 billion euros — over $22 billion — in security assistance has already been pledged by NATO allies in the first three months of the ...