By JON GAMBRELL and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli fighter jets over the Red Sea launched ballistic missiles to target Hamas leaders in Qatar last week, a U.S. defense official said, in what was a novel method likely designed to overcome the ...
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. returned the first migrant to France on Thursday under a new " one in, one out" exchange policy for asylum-seekers who enter the country without authorization. A man who arrived by boat in August was flown back to France, the Home Office said. More deportations are ...
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After well over a century under construction, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica is ready to raise its immense central tower and become the tallest Christian church in Europe. The basilica's General Director Xavier Martínez said ...
By NICOLAS GARRIGA, THOMAS ADAMSON and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Protesters hit France with transport strikes, notably hobbling the Paris Metro, demonstrations and traffic slowdowns and blockades Thursday, pitting the power of the streets against President Emmanuel ...
By MUNIR AHMED and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both — a key accord in the wake of Israel's strike on Qatar last week. The kingdom has ...
By MUNIR AHMED and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both — a key accord in the wake of Israel's strike on Qatar last week. The kingdom has ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's defense minister renewed threats that his country would take over self-ruled Taiwan as he opened a security forum in Beijing on Thursday. The "restoration" of Taiwan to China "is an integral part of the post-war ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nine hours of frantic negotiation with the Israeli military. A last-minute scramble to find trucks in a devastated Gaza Strip, where fuel is in short supply. Six hours of frantic packing, carefully stacking cardboard boxes on open flatbed ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nine hours of frantic negotiation with the Israeli military. A last-minute scramble to find trucks in a devastated Gaza Strip, where fuel is in short supply. Six hours of frantic packing, carefully stacking cardboard boxes on open flatbed ...
By AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED Associated Press ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Israel on Tuesday launched airstrikes on the Yemeni city of Hodeida as Iranian-backed Houthi rebels activated air defenses. The Israeli military said in an update that it struck "military infrastructure" used by the ...
By JILL LAWLESS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a state visit during which the British government hopes a multibillion-dollar technology deal will show the trans-Atlantic bond remains strong ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — South America's Mercosur bloc signed a free trade deal Tuesday with the European countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, as ties between the two continents deepen amid global uncertainty sparked by sweeping ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN, JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched its offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war as thousands of Palestinians fled in vehicles strapped with mattresses and other ...
By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's peace tribunal on Tuesday issued its first sentence on war crimes committed during decades of internal conflict, finding seven former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, guilty of imposing policies ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN, JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military began a ground offensive targeting Gaza City on Tuesday, slowly squeezing in on the Palestinian territory's largest city that has seen block after block already destroyed in the ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and take ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers U.S. indices were mostly higher Tuesday after Wall Street set new records and investor expectation grew that the Federal Reserve will announce its first interest rate cut of 2025. S&P 500 futures rose 0.2% before the bell Tuesday while ...
By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawians cast their votes Tuesday in elections to choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives in the midst of economic turmoil in one of the world's least-developed countries. They face a choice between ...
By JILL LAWLESS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a state visit during which the British government hopes a multibillion-dollar technology deal will show the transatlantic bond remains strong ...
By EDWARD ACQUAH, WILSON MCMAKIN and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Lawyers for four of 14 West African men deported by the U.S. to Ghana said Monday the men remained in that third country and had not been returned to their homes, contradicting an earlier statement by ...