By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France's new prime minister announced Friday he would not use a special constitutional power to force a budget through parliament without a vote and will instead seek a compromise with lawmakers from the left and the right. Sébastien ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations using Nvidia's computer ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week. The awards are considered among the world's most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace. The winners will join the pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert ...
By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Israeli police officers were deployed Thursday to the southern port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier in the Mediterranean Sea, Israeli ...
By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of activists raises questions about what any nation can legally do to enforce a blockade in international waters. As dozens of ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The clean up began across Bermuda on Thursday after Hurricane Imelda swiped past the tiny British territory as a Category 2 storm, downing trees, power lines and transformers. "There has been no significant damage and, most importantly, no reported casualties," ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order vowing to use all measures including U.S. military action to defend the energy-rich nation of Qatar — though it remains unclear just what weight the pledge will ...
By AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The United States will deport hundreds of Iranians back to Iran in the coming weeks, with the first 120 deportees being prepared for a flight in the next day or two, Iran said Tuesday. The deportation of Iranians, not yet publicly ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Tuesday to authorize a much larger, 5,550-member international force with expanded powers to help stop escalating gang violence in Haiti. The resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel pressed its offensive in Gaza on Wednesday, with at least 16 Palestinians reported killed across the strip as Hamas mulled its response to U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for the embattled ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president vowed Wednesday to sharply increase defense spending and build a more self-reliant military, as U.S. President Donald Trump's " America First" agenda raises questions about the U.S. ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church, raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be "pro-life." Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African opposition leader Julius Malema was found guilty Wednesday of breaking firearm laws in a 2018 incident where he was filmed firing a rifle at a political rally. The fiery politician, who leads the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters, was charged with ...
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and MALAK HARB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government fighters entered the city of Sweida over the summer in an apparent bid to assert control over the enclave of the Druze minority that for years had operated in semiautonomy. It backfired. Sectarian attacks ...
By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A parliamentary election in the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday could deprive Ukraine of a staunch supporter and put the Czechs on a course away from the European mainstream, following the pro-Russian path taken by Hungary and ...
By SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Qatar said Tuesday that further talks were needed over details of U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza, as Hamas weighed its reply. In Gaza, Israeli forces killed at least 36 ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military is sharing with European countries its expertise in fighting Russian drones, sending a mission to Denmark for joint exercises, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday. "Our military has begun ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have finally outmaneuvered Hamas. After facing months of genocide accusations, pariah status and global pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Netanyahu has agreed on a ceasefire plan with U.S. ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo on Tuesday convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and other charges and sentenced him to death. Kabila, who has been on trial in absentia since July and whose whereabouts are unknown, was accused of treason, involvement in an ...
PARIS (AP) — The South African ambassador to France, Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, known as Nathi Mthethwa, was found dead on Tuesday morning at the foot of a luxury hotel tower in western Paris, a French prosecutor said. The 58-year-old ambassador had been reported missing on Monday ...