By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program are being held in solitary confinement in various prisons for an ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump met five African leaders in Washington in July, his lack of familiarity with the continent was on display. He praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai's English — Liberia's official language — ...
By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, authorities said on Friday, in a move he described as "a supreme humiliation."
The development came as federal police conducted searches at his home ...
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Germany deported dozens of Afghan men to their homeland on Friday, the second time it has done so since the Taliban returned to power and the first since a new government pledging a tougher line on migration took office in Berlin.
German ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan will not provoke a confrontation with China, the self-ruled island's vice president said Friday, lamenting Beijing's "aggressive military posturing" against the island democracy that China claims as its own.
"We do not seek ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Libyan accused by the International Criminal Court of crimes against humanity and war crimes was arrested in Germany on a sealed arrest warrant, the court announced Friday.
Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was allegedly one of ...
By COLLEEN BARRY and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy. He ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel has refused to renew visas for the heads of at least three United Nations agencies in Gaza, which the U.N. humanitarian chief blames on their work trying to protect Palestinian civilians in the war-torn territory.
Visas for ...
By JILL LAWLESS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a landmark treaty on Thursday that pledges to tighten defense ties, as European nations try to protect Ukraine, and themselves, from an aggressive ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy monsoon rains killed at least 54 people in eastern Pakistan in 24 hours, bringing the total rain-related deaths in the country to 178 over the past three weeks, officials said Thursday.
Rainfall has triggered flash floods and inundated several villages as the country ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A bill to overhaul environmental regulations in Brazil was passed by the country's lower house Thursday, drawing criticism by the environmental minister who floated the possibility of a presidential ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country's deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday.
The center-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA, and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said. They were ...
By MARIA CHENG and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children, researchers reported ...
By GERALD IMRAY, MICHELLE GUMEDE and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States sent five immigrants it says were convicted of serious crimes to the African nation of Eswatini, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said — an expansion of the ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a major political blow on Wednesday as a key governing partner announced it was quitting his coalition government, leaving him with a minority in parliament as the country faces a ...
By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press
BUSRA AL-HARIR, Syria (AP) — Syria 's defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in southern Sweida province on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes killed dozens there. Neighboring Israel ...
By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United Nations' special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank said Tuesday that it's time for nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop what she called the "genocide" in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese spoke to ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers
BANGKOK (AP) — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence to China.
The news came in ...