In Rome, talks to protect Earth's biodiversity resume with money topping the...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to...
View Article46.1 million people were counted in Iraq's first census in nearly 40 years
BAGHDAD (AP) — The final results of Iraq's first census in nearly 40 years released Monday show the population has reached 46.1 million. In 2009, an unofficial count estimated the population at 31.6...
View ArticlePalestinians struggle to restart their lives in the ruins of Gaza
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — When night falls over northern Gaza, much of the cityscape of collapsed buildings and piled wreckage turns pitch black. Living inside the ruins of their home, Rawya...
View ArticleA cliff that looks like a puppy resting beside the Yangtze River delights...
When Shanghai-based designer Guo Qingshan posted a vacation photo on Valentine’s Day and captioned it “Puppy Mountain,” it became a sensation in China and even created a tourist destination. Guo had...
View ArticleMacron got no promises on Ukraine but called his meeting with Trump a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Washington seeking to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to stand by Europe’s side in his talks with Russia about ending the war in...
View ArticleVatican says Pope Francis is critical but stable with no new respiratory crises
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was in critical but stable condition Tuesday as he worked from the hospital while battling double pneumonia, and the Vatican announced some major governing decisions that...
View ArticleSyria's national dialogue conference held as the battered country seeks to...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new rulers held a long-awaited national dialogue conference Tuesday, which they touted as as a “rare historical opportunity” to rebuild the country after the fall of...
View ArticleBotswana, the country with the biggest diamonds, gets an improved 10-year...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal...
View ArticleArgentina's Milei skirts Congress to seat a divisive judge in the Supreme Court
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's President Javier Milei temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree Tuesday, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a...
View ArticleIsrael and Hamas agree on new exchange, leaving fragile ceasefire intact
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli and Hamas officials said Tuesday they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, keeping their...
View ArticlePower outage leaves most of Chile in darkness for hours
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Electricity providers across Chile scrambled to restore service Tuesday after a sweeping blackout plunged 90% of the country into darkness, stranding commuters, knocking cell...
View ArticleThe nightmare drags on for the families of hostages who remain in Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Yael Alexander has been watching the release of hostages from Gaza over the past six weeks with a mix of joy, envy and fear. Her son Edan, an American-Israeli hostage held for...
View ArticleSouth Korea's Yoon defends his martial law decree as impeachment ruling nears
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a final statement at his impeachment trial, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his martial law decree that plunged the country into chaos as a bid to inform the...
View ArticleStress and fear roil a tiny, rapidly militarizing Japanese island near Taiwan
YONAGUNI, Japan (AP) — This tiny island on Japan's western frontier has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze on a hill. But the...
View ArticleMore than 100 firefighters battle blazes on South Africa's Table Mountain in...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — More than 100 firefighters battled two blazes on the slopes of South Africa's Table Mountain on Wednesday, and national parks authorities said they were starting to...
View ArticleWho is Calin Georgescu, the far-right populist being investigated by...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — He shook Romania’s political landscape in November when he secured the first round in the presidential election, going from an obscure candidate to beating the incumbent...
View ArticleRomanian prosecutors launch investigation into far-right populist who led...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian prosecutors launched a criminal investigation on Wednesday against a far-right populist who won the first round in a canceled presidential election last year,...
View ArticleBosnian Serb leader Dodik is convicted and sentenced for separatist...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Wednesday sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over...
View ArticleHigh-level EU-US diplomatic talks are called off as transatlantic tensions rise
WASHINGTON (AP) — A planned meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was abruptly canceled Wednesday due to “scheduling issues,” coming as...
View ArticleTrump says Zelenskyy is coming to the White House to sign US-Ukraine critical...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the White House on Friday to sign a long-sought minerals deal that will closely tie the two...
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