Germany's defense minister says damage to 2 Baltic data cables appears to be...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's defense minister said Tuesday officials have to assume damage to two data cables under the Baltic Sea, one of which ends in Germany, was caused by sabotage — though he said...
View ArticleUS envoy pushes for cease-fire in Lebanon as food crisis worsens after...
BEIRUT (AP) — A United States envoy returned to Beirut on Tuesday, where Lebanese officials have tentatively welcomed a proposal for an Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire. There was no such optimism in the...
View ArticlePolice in Georgia's capital break up a tent camp set up by protesters...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in Georgia's capital early on Tuesday moved in to break up a tent camp that demonstrators set up on a central thoroughfare to protest the results of last month's...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: US envoy arrives in Lebanon to meet with officials about...
A U.S. envoy has arrived in Beirut to meet with Lebanese officials about a possible cease-fire in the Israel-Hezbollah war. Amos Hochstein, a senior advisor to United States President Joe Biden,...
View ArticleAustralia's plan to ban children from social media proves popular and...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult. The...
View ArticleArgentina's Milei pivots to pragmatism in first talks with China's Xi after...
LA PAZ, Boliva (AP) — Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves”...
View ArticleNorth Korea sent more conventional weapons to Russia, South Korea says
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea recently supplied additional artillery systems to Russia to support its war efforts against Ukraine, while some of the thousands of North Korean troops deployed...
View ArticleThe mausoleum holding Congo independence hero Lumumba's gold-capped tooth is...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It's not immediately clear whether...
View ArticleMarcos says Indonesia has agreed to send Filipino death-row drug convict back...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Wednesday that a deal has been reached for Indonesia to send back a Filipino death-row drug convict, who was nearly executed...
View ArticleA suicide car bombing at a security post in northwestern Pakistan has killed...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a security post in northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 members of the security forces and wounding several others,...
View ArticleRussian lawmakers endorse bill to ban adoptions by gender-transition countries
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday endorsed a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Federation Council...
View ArticleHong Kong ex-publisher Jimmy Lai testifies he didn't ask Pence, Pompeo to...
HONG KONG (AP) — Former Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai denied in his landmark national security trial on Wednesday he had asked then U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and then Secretary of State Mike...
View ArticleWestern embassies in Kyiv shut due to Russian air attack threat after Biden...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv said that they would stay closed Wednesday for security reasons, with the American delegation saying it had received a warning of...
View ArticlePope to make late Italian teenager Carlo Acutis the first millennial and...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said he will canonize Carlo Acutis next April, setting the eagerly awaited date for the late teenager to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint....
View ArticleYaks, bears and cockatoos are among the animals Russia is sending to North...
Russia has sent a gift of more than 70 animals to North Korea for the Pyongyang Zoo, including bears, yaks, ducks and cockatoos. In another sign of the growing cooperation between the countries, the...
View ArticleSoutheast Asian defense chiefs discuss regional security with US, China and...
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Southeast Asian defense chiefs met Thursday with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing’s increasingly assertive...
View ArticleWhy people are protesting over a deadly roof collapse in Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a rail station in Serbia has raised tensions across the Balkan county, fueling widespread anger toward the government and protests...
View ArticleEX-UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is hailed as a working-class hero...
LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died at age 86....
View ArticleShares in India's Adani Group plunge 20% after US bribery, fraud indictments
NEW DELHI (AP) — One of Asia’s richest men, controversial Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, is again in the spotlight. His companies’ stocks plunged up to 20% on Thursday after he was indicted by U.S....
View ArticleAustralian tourist dies after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos, raising toll...
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called every parent’s nightmare. An American and two Danish...
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