BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year's presidential election, kicked off a tour of Latin America on Saturday, just days before President Nicolás Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third term ...
By ABBY SEWELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — A fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has held up for over a month, even as its terms seem unlikely to be met by the agreed-upon deadline.
The deal struck on Nov. 27 to halt the war ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain on Saturday.
They included just a small proportion of hundreds of political ...
By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras President Xiomara Castro 's comments earlier this week threatening to stop her country's cooperation with the U.S. military if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on promised mass deportations have ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said ...
By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A top-level meeting in Montenegro on Friday promised tough measures to curb illegal weapons after a gunman fatally shot 12 people in a second such tragedy in less than three years in the small Balkan country.
An emergency ...
By GEIR MOULSON and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press
VIENNA (AP) — Talks on forming a new three-party government in Austria collapsed Friday as the smallest of the prospective coalition partners pulled the plug on the negotiations.
The talks had dragged on since Austria's ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is "strong and unpredictable," and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The rockets from Gaza have mostly fallen silent. A ceasefire with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon has taken hold. But repeated fire from Yemen's Houthi rebels, a faraway foe, is proving a stubborn threat for Israel.
The Iran-backed ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people, including several children, across the Gaza Strip, hitting Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.
As the bombardment continued on ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a "firm commitment" to protect and respect life from conception to natural death.
Francis, 88, celebrated a New Year's Day Mass in ...
BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Wednesday condemned a series of incidents on New Year's Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked and injured, mostly with fireworks.
Revellers across the country traditionally ring in the new year by setting off large numbers of ...
By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong military presence, the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial power.
Ivorian President ...
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities released a Salvadoran man who was convicted of participating in a string of hotel bombings on the island in 1997, a government-run news site said.
The Cubadebate website reported Monday in a lengthy editorial that Raul ...
By ABDUR RAHMAN JAHANGIR Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of people led by students rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Tuesday, calling for the prosecution of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and those responsible for hundreds of deaths in a mass uprising against her ...
By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro on Tuesday extradited a South Korean mogul known as "the cryptocurrency king" to the United States, following a decision of its justice ministry earlier this month to accept a U.S. request, while refusing a South ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones.
Ukraine's air force reported a ballistic missile threat at 3:00 a.m. (0100 GMT), with at least two ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A court in Serbia on Monday convicted the parents of a teenage boy who last year shot dead nine pupils and a school guard and wounded six more people in a school in central Belgrade.
The Higher Court in Belgrade sentenced Vladimir Kecmanovic, father of the boy, to 14 ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that saw the release of hundreds of captives and was brokered with the help of the United Arab Emirates, officials said Monday.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 189 Ukrainian ...