By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children's agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and kidnappings.
Children are more than half of ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government plans to resume negotiations with the U.S. government this week, President Nicolás Maduro announced Monday, less than a month before a highly anticipated election in which he and his party are facing ...
By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean-American raised in the United States filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean government on Monday, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he's elected president again. Russia's United Nations ambassador says he can't.
When asked to respond to the claim from the ...
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A United Nations human rights working group on Monday called for the immediate release of Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he had been detained "arbitrarily in violation of international laws."
The ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Naomi Osaka had not won a match at Wimbledon in six years. Hadn't even played there in five. Grass courts never were her favorite surface.
Twelve months ago at this time, Osaka was off the tour while becoming a mother — her ...
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused opposition parties of stoking xenophobia and racism after residents in a neighborhood in central Turkey set Syrian-owned shops on fire. Erdogan's comments on Monday followed the rioting ...
By AHMED MOHAMED Associated Press
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been reelected for a second term, the country's electoral commission said on Monday, after positioning the country as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups ...
By BARBARA SURK and ELISE MORTON Associated Press
NICE, France (AP) — At just 28 years old, Jordan Bardella has helped make the far-right National Rally the strongest political force in France. And now he could become the country's youngest prime minister.
After voters propelled ...
By FATMA KHALED Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — More than half of households in Yemen are not eating enough due to poor economic conditions and a months-long pause in food assistance to millions of people in the rebel-held north, the United Nations food agency said Monday.
The World ...
By VASILISA STEPANENKO, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press
DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they ...
By JON GAMBRELL and NASSER KARIMI Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians voted Friday in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, with the race's sole reformist candidate vowing to seek "friendly relations" with the West in an effort to ...
By JOHN LEICESTER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — With their own and France's fates in the balance, candidates were making their last campaign pushes Friday for the first round of voting in a pivotal and polarizing legislative election in which the centrist government of ...
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Nathaniel Dye believes he probably won't live to see Britain's next election. But the music teacher diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer is doing everything he can to make sure the Labour Party wins this one.
Dismayed by delays in his ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's lower house on Friday approved President Javier Milei's sweeping economic overhaul bills, sealing a much-needed legislative victory for the libertarian leader after six months of bruising negotiations and raucous protests that had raised questions ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — A decade after the Islamic State militant group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists no longer control any land, have lost many prominent leaders and are mostly out of the world news ...
By AHMED MOHAMED Associated Press
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — who is seeking a second term in office in a vote on Saturday — is promising more economic growth and social programs to eradicate poverty and prevent extremism in the vast ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday that Parliament will open for its next term on July 18 as he remains locked in negotiations with other parties to form a Cabinet well before then amid rifts in the new ...
By JULIA FRANKEL and MAYA ALLERUZZO Associated Press
JENIN, West Bank (AP) — When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle's neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. That was only the start of his ordeal. Hours later, beaten and bloodied, he ...
By KEN MORITSUGU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Mongolia, where parliamentary elections were being held Friday, is a sparsely populated and landlocked Asian nation known for its bitter winter cold and independent spirit.
As a democracy of just 3.4 ...