MEXICO CITY (AP) — The personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City's mayor were killed by gunmen on a motorcycle in a central neighborhood of the capital Tuesday, authorities said. Mayor Clara Brugada holds the second most powerful political post in the country to President Claudia ...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An appeals court in Serbia on Tuesday released three out of six political activists from jail following protests and international criticism of the populist government, which has faced monthslong anti-graft demonstrations. But the court in the northern city of Novi ...

By BRIAN MELLEY and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government on Tuesday suspended free trade talks with Israel and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, hours after vowing "concrete actions" if Israel didn't stop its new military offensive in Gaza. Pressure ...

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Days before South Africa's president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their ...

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Taiwanese president said Tuesday that trade tensions between the United States and Taiwan are just "frictions between friends" in a show of optimism as tariff negotiations are underway with Washington. U.S. President Donald ...

By TIA GOLDENBERG, SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The first few aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday following nearly three months of Israel's blockade of food, medicine and other supplies, Israel and the United Nations said, as Israel acknowledged ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela on Monday banned the arrival of flights from neighboring Colombia after authorities detained more than 30 people who were allegedly plotting activities to destabilize the country ahead of Sunday's election. The ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of the U.S.-led push for ceasefire negotiations in Russia's war in ...

By TIA GOLDENBERG, SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his decision to resume limited aid to the Gaza Strip after a two-and-a-half month blockade came after pressure from allies who said they ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters marched through the Dutch capital on Sunday to demand their government do more to halt Israel's campaign in Gaza, in what organizers called the country's biggest demonstration in two ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — What was once one the bastion of the center-right in Argentina fell on Sunday to the radical libertarian party of President Javier Milei, a dramatic result that could help the leader's chances in crucial midterm elections ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world's highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide. Kenton Cool, 51, from southwest England, scaled the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on Sunday ...

By BARRY HATTON and HELENA ALVES Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's president convened the country's political parties for consultations Monday, after a general election delivered another minority government as well as an unprecedented showing by populist party Chega ...

By SYLVIA HUI, PAN PYLAS and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union hailed a new chapter in their relationship Monday after they sealed new agreements on defense cooperation and easing trade flows at their first formal summit since Brexit. Prime ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The war in the Gaza Strip has reached one of its darkest periods. Israel cut off all food and supplies to the territory nearly three months ago. The military has launched another major offensive against Hamas, including "extensive" ground ...

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Stripped of U.S. funding, the World Health Organization chief on Monday appealed to member countries to support its "extremely modest" request for a $2.1 billion annual budget by putting that sum into perspective next to outlays for ad ...

BEIJING (AP) — One person has died in an apparent shooting at an outdoor restaurant in the city of Wuhan in what would be a rare case of gun violence in China. A police statement said Monday that two other people were injured on Sunday night in what it called a case of "deliberate injury" ...

JD Vance gives Pope Leo XIV an invitation from Trump to visit US By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican. Vance, a Catholic convert, ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched dozens of airstrikes across northern and southern Gaza on Friday, killing more than 93 people and wounding hundreds -- attacks that Israeli officials described as a prelude to a larger ...