By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed Washington's commitment to peace and stability in East Africa during a visit to Rwanda on Tuesday and urged for a resolution to the insurgency in neighboring Congo. The ...
By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese officials said Tuesday that they will allow a foreign national entry into the country after their initial refusal to do so prompted the United States to revoke the visas of all its citizens. Congolese national Makula ...
By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The European Union 's foreign policy chief on Tuesday hailed Albania's "ambitious" agenda to close full membership negotiations in two years and also urged the country's political parties to support difficult reforms ahead. Kaja ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States will hold talks in the sultanate of Oman on Saturday in an attempt to jump-start negotiations over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program. Even before the talks, however, there was a dispute ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the rivals' tense border on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, the first known border intrusion by North Korea in nearly a year. Violent ...
BEIJING (AP) — China said Tuesday it would "fight to the end" and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. The Commerce Ministry said the U.S.'s imposition of "so-called ...
MOSCOW (AP) — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday on board a Russian spacecraft. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-27 carrying ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will hold a snap presidential election June 3 to choose Yoon Suk Yeol's successor after the conservative was ousted over his imposition of martial law late last year. The announcement from acting President Han ...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama's comptroller authority said Monday an audit found irregularities in the renewal of a 25-year port concession in the interoceanic canal and it would request an investigation into the authorization of the contract to a Hong Kong company. Comptroller-General Anel ...
By RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking ...
By YEHOR KONOVALOV and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) — Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through ...
By BABA AHMED, SAM METZ and WILSON McMAKIN Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Relations between Algeria and the military alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger plunged to historic lows Monday as the two sides curtailed diplomatic ties in a spat over a downed drone last week. Algeria ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar's devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity. The death toll surpassed 3,600 and was still climbing. A situation report issued late ...
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Criminal investigators in Kenya said on Monday they have concluded a probe into the death of a young mother in 2012 who was last seen alive in the company of British solders who were in the country for training. The office of the ...
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has dramatically expanded its footprint in the Gaza Strip since relaunching its war against Hamas last month. It now controls more than 50% of the territory and is squeezing Palestinians into shrinking wedges of land. The ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump about the ...
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy. Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S. citizen awaiting trial in Moscow has been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital, Russian state media reported Sunday. Joseph Tater, 46, was arrested in August 2024 after being accused of assaulting a police officer during a confrontation with staff at an upmarket ...
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE AND MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A Trump administration official said Thursday the United States is in talks with conflict-plagued Congo on developing its mineral resources under a deal that the Congolese president has said could help make his ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada will match U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% auto tariffs with a tariff on vehicles imported from the United States. Trump's previously announced 25% tariffs on auto imports took effect ...