Venezuelan opposition leader rallies support in Panama ahead of Maduro...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Days before Venezuela’s presidential inauguration, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González was in Panama Wednesday rallying regional support for the opposition's...
View ArticleUK foreign policy chief says Trump is right to urge higher military spending...
LONDON (AP) — Europe’s security “is on a knife-edge” and President-elect Donald Trump is right to say NATO member nations must increase military spending, Britain’s top diplomat said Thursday. Foreign...
View ArticleAn army airstrike on a village in western Myanmar has killed at least 40...
BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local...
View ArticleLebanon's parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending a...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous...
View ArticlePolish government adopts resolution protecting Netanyahu from arrest if he...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government adopted a resolution on Thursday vowing to ensure the free and safe participation of the highest representatives of Israel — including Prime Minister...
View ArticleNOAA says La Nina ocean cooling has finally arrived, but it's weak and may...
A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual, meteorologists said Thursday. La Nina,...
View ArticleItaly’s FM heads to Syria to encourage post-Assad transition and calls for EU...
ROME (AP) — Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is travelling to Syria on Friday to encourage the country's transition following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents, and...
View ArticleScientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core...
An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they...
View ArticleMore than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war,...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict. The...
View ArticleZelenskyy and Austin use their final meeting to press Trump to keep...
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin used their final meeting Thursday to press the incoming Trump administration not to...
View ArticleMusk uses X livestream to amplify German far-right leader's views ahead of an...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk livestreamed his chat with a leader of Germany's far-right party on Thursday, using the power of his social media platform, X, to amplify the party's...
View ArticleA Pakistani court suspends the deportation of Afghan singers and musicians
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Friday stopped the deportation of 150 Afghan musicians and singers for at least two months, ordering authorities not to expel or force them to return...
View ArticleCanada's Liberal Party to decide on March 9 who will succeed Trudeau as prime...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's governing Liberal Party will announce the country's next prime minister on March 9 after a leadership vote that follows the resignation of Justin Trudeau this week, party...
View ArticleEstonia steps up patrols in the icy Baltic Sea in a show of force after...
ABOARD THE EML SAKALA IN THE BALTIC SEA (AP) — As they plied the gray, icy waters of the Baltic Sea west of Russia on Thursday, the crew of the Estonian minehunter EML Sakala kept a careful eye on any...
View ArticleSalvage complete of tanker at center of oil spill scare after being hit by...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea after being attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels and threatening a massive oil spill has been salvaged, a security...
View ArticleLynx on the loose in Scotland highlight debate over reintroducing species...
LONDON (AP) — Scottish environmental activists want to reintroduce the lynx into the forests of the Highlands. But not this way. At least two lynx, a medium-sized wildcat extinct in Scotland for...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israel launches new strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels
Israel’s military says it carried out new airstrikes in Yemen against what it said were Houthi rebel targets. Its statement Friday said fighter jets struck “on the western coast and inland Yemen,” a...
View ArticleWho is Joseph Aoun, a low-profile army chief who is now Lebanon's president?
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is no-nonsense, kind and averse to affiliating himself with any...
View ArticleVenezuela's Maduro takes new oath amid protests and international rebuke
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for a new term, extending his increasingly repressive rule in the face of renewed protests and rebukes from the United...
View ArticleVenezuela latest: Nicolás Maduro takes office as global backlash and...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term Friday despite international condemnation of his recent reelection as illegitimate, as his...
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