India PM Modi’s party seeks to regain control of New Delhi region in state elections

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was trying to regain power in the federal territory that includes New Delhi on Wednesday as residents voted in a state legislature election. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party hasn’t won the territory that includes India’s capital of 20 million people in over a quarter-century. The BJP is up against the Aam Aadmi Party that runs New Delhi and has built widespread support with its welfare policies and anti-corruption movement. Election results are due Saturday.

Palestinians reject Trump’s call to expel them from Gaza

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Stunned Palestinians rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal to expel them from the Gaza Strip so that the U.S. could take over the territory and rebuild it for others. Many saw the comments as an effort to erase them from their homeland, a continuation of the expulsion and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel during the 1948 war. Palestinians displaced during the Israel-Hamas war have shown a powerful determination to return to their homes, with hundreds of thousands during the current ceasefire flooding back to neighborhoods devastated by Israeli bombardment and offensives. Trump’s top diplomat on Wednesday walked back the president’s proposal, saying he only wants to temporarily relocate Palestinians from Gaza.

France’s government survives a no-confidence vote and a budget is finally adopted

PARIS (AP) — France’s government has survived a no-confidence vote and the country’s 2025 budget is finally adopted. Wednesday’s events ease some of the turmoil in one of the world’s biggest economies that had worried investors and hurt the 20-country eurozone. The government has no majority in parliament, and Prime Minister François Bayrou had used special constitutional powers to get the budget bill approved without a vote by lawmakers. That triggered the no-confidence motion. Bayrou is a veteran centrist who was appointed in December amid a political crisis prompted by budget disputes that led to the collapse of his predecessor’s government.

Guatemala agrees to accept migrants from other countries being deported from the US

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States. It’s the second deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reached during his trip to Central America. Under the agreement announced Wednesday by Arévalo, the deportees would be returned to their home countries at U.S. expense. El Salvador announced a similar but broader agreement on Monday, with the president saying his country would accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including American citizens who are imprisoned for violent crimes. Both President Donald Trump and Rubio acknowledged the legal uncertainty. Immigration, a Trump administration priority, has been the major focus of Rubio’s first foreign trip as America’s top diplomat.