By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a ...

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Top minds at the world's largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics. The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91-kilometer ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The United States sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials who it alleged were involved in "transnational repression" and acts that threaten to further erode the city's autonomy. The six officials included Justice Secretary Paul Lam, ...

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced as "a democratic scandal" the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on her seeking public office for embezzling European Union funds. The Paris court says it would be undemocratic to allow ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's Constitutional Court is poised to rule Friday on whether to dismiss or reinstate impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol. This will determine his political fate, but it doesn't mean the ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, LEE KEATH and FATMA KHALED Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians held funerals Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found buried in an impromptu ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would have had to face a reelection campaign in the spring of 2024 if it had not been for Russia's full-scale invasion. Now, the question of the legitimacy of his rule is being weaponized by Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump also ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is set to have its first female saint following approval from Pope Francis. On Monday, he paved the way for the canonization of Blessed María Carmen Rendiles by authorizing a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to her, the founder of the Congregation ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's poverty rate dropped to 38.1% in libertarian President Javier Milei 's first year in office, the nation's official statistics agency reported on Monday, a closely watched measure reflecting the government's ...

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's government said on Monday that its intelligence agency spied on Paraguayan authorities during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, the predecessor of incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a move that stopped in March 2023, three ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has responded to a letter sent by U.S. President Donald Trump to its supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, rejecting the option of direct talks. The ...

PARIS (AP) — U.S. government efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives are not going down well on the European continent. Laurent Saint-Martin, France's minister for foreign trade, said on Monday the country won't compromise after the U.S. State Department said that French companies who ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Supreme Court on Monday said it received a petition from the prosecutor general's office to lift a ban on Afghanistan's Taliban, who were outlawed two decades ago as a terrorist group. The court said in a statement it would hold a hearing on the petition, submitted by ...

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder on Monday after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking sentence issued in Colombia against the 75-year-old had expired. Lehder was arrested Friday night ...

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe. (AP) — Harare and other major urban centers in Zimbabwe were deserted on Monday as communities mostly stayed at home after calls for anti-government protests made by a rival faction within the ranks of the ruling ZANU-PF party were ...

By RIAZ KHAN and RIAZAT BUTT undefined PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan plans to expel 3 million Afghans from the country this year, as a deadline for them to voluntarily leave the capital and surrounding areas expired on Monday. It's the latest phase of a nationwide crackdown launched ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — After sending its most famous work to be featured in Amsterdam's blockbuster 2023 exhibition of nearly every work by Johannes Vermeer, the Mauritshuis museum found itself with a blank space where the iconic "Girl with a Pearl ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan on Sunday an "indispensable partner" in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in the region and announced upgrading the U.S. military command in Japan to a new "war-fighting ...

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry accused the royal on Sunday of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force her out as she pushed back following his abrupt resignation from the ...

By THEIN ZAW, DAVID RISING and GRANT PECK Associated Press MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after ...