By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States, with a focus on buying more defense equipment in Europe rather than from suppliers across the Atlantic. The EU's executive branch ...
By DAVID RISING and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military's Agent Orange defoliant. The Trump ...
By KEN MORITSUGU and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The recent move by U.S. President Donald Trump to make cuts at Voice of America and other U.S. government-run media may be welcome news for China's ruling Communist Party. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson refrained ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A 19-year-old British man who shot and killed his mother and two younger siblings and who wanted to carry out a high-profile school shooting has been told he will not be eligible for parole for at least 49 years. At the sentencing hearing at ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR EL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli bombs began falling before dawn, lighting the sky with orange flares and shattering the stillness. The surprise wave of airstrikes plunged Palestinians back into a nightmare they ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's wave of predawn airstrikes across Gaza shattered two months of relative calm during a ceasefire with Hamas. Tuesday was one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the war began, with over 400 Palestinians killed and hundreds more ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in U.N. peacekeeping and political missions topped 100 for the third time in the last 10 years in 2024, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday, which said 65 of the allegations ...
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The parents of a U.S. college student who vanished almost two weeks ago in the resort town of Punta Cana have asked authorities to declare her legally dead. In a letter to Dominican police dated Monday, ...
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Commuters and residents in Lima were facing new security measures on Tuesday after Peru 's government declared a state of emergency in the capital to combat growing crime rates that have prompted some lawmakers to seek the removal of ...
Associated Press By JOSEPH WILSON BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Emergency services in southern Spain were searching Tuesday for a married couple after flash floods swept away their vehicle as rising waters prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes. Authorities closed roads and canceled ...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's president declared a state of emergency in the capital Monday and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help police address a surge of violence, amid widespread outcry a day after the killing of a popular singer. President Dina Boluarte's government published a ...
By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press DARAA, Syira (AP) — Syria's foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned the latest Israeli airstrikes on targets in the south of the country, calling the attack a violation of international law. Hundreds of people gathered for the funeral of one of the victims ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of a western Indian city on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes were sparked by Hindu nationalist groups who want to demolish the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler. Clashes ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to local health officials. The surprise bombardment, the ...
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, asked lawmakers Tuesday to loosen the nation's strict debt rules to enable higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and to authorize an ...
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist party ...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's president declared a state of emergency in the capital Monday and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help police address a surge of violence, amid widespread outcry a day after the killing of a popular singer. President Dina Boluarte's government published a ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, saying it was striking dozens of Hamas targets in its heaviest assault in the territory since a ceasefire took effect in January. ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday explicitly linked the actions of Yemen's Houthi rebels to the group's main benefactor, Iran, warning Tehran it would "suffer the consequences" for further attacks by the group. The ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council told Afghanistan's Taliban rulers Monday that peace and prosperity are "unattainable" until they reverse their bans on women and girls getting an education, being employed and speaking in public. The ...