HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party and the country's most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said Friday. He was 80. "General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Nguyen Phu ...
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY, ELAINE KURTENBACH and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air on Friday after a faulty software update disrupted companies and services around the world ...
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised a tentative deal between Serbia and the European Union signed on Friday that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium, a mega project that could reduce Europe's dependency on ...
By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Britain's new government to help Ukrainian forces attack deeper inside Russia to stop deadly missile strikes on his country, as he gave a rare address by a foreign leader to a U.K. Cabinet ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press MUDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — It's Tuesday morning, and 5-year-old Talent should be in school. Instead, he's foraging for the fruit that his family is counting on for food now that crops have withered in the heat. Blame the El Nino phenomenon that altered ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Friday it has restarted blasting propaganda broadcasts into North Korea to retaliate against the North's latest round of trash-carrying balloon launches, a resumption of Cold War-style tactics that are raising ...
By JOHN LEICESTER and TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A special kind of iron curtain came down across central Paris on Thursday, with the beginning of an Olympic anti-terrorism perimeter along the banks of the River Seine sealing off a kilometers-long (miles-long) area to ...
By MIKE CORDER and JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Lawmakers at the European Parliament on Thursday reelected Ursula von der Leyen to a second 5-year term as president of the European Union's executive commission, giving her a comfortable majority and ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government announced Thursday that $325 million in federal funds will be available for solar and battery storage installations across Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with chronic power outages. The ...
By JADE LOZADA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced nearly $203 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan on Thursday but warned that the money is not a "panacea" and urged other countries to fulfill their financial pledges ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa opened a new parliamentary term Thursday, nearly two months after an historic election result reshaped the country's politics and led to the formation of an unprecedented multiparty ...
By JADE LOZADA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia's foreign minister blamed "the Americans" for publicly bringing up a possible prisoner exchange involving imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, which he said "isn't helping." A day before Gershkovich ...
By MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents, police arrested 300 people, seized $3 million and blocked 720 bank accounts, Interpol said Tuesday. Operation Jackal III, which ran from ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, officials in both countries said Wednesday, three weeks after their last swap and as part of what have been occasional agreements to send captured troops home. Ukrainian ...
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Initial autopsy results showed traces of cyanide in the blood of six Vietnamese and American guests at a luxury hotel in central Bangkok and one of them is believed to have poisoned the others over a bad ...
By TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the long-polluted Seine River on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics — and the ...
By MIKE CORDER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press VIJFHUIZEN, Netherlands (AP) — Relatives of passengers and crew killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine gathered in Australia and the Netherlands on Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy that claimed ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — In a year of major elections that will determine the destinies of many countries, China's ruling Communist Party is holding closed, top-level meetings in Beijing to set strategies for reviving its slowing economy. State media ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was expected to face a disciplinary hearing with the African National Congress party on Wednesday, after campaigning against the organization he once led as head of a new political ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday that the Islamic State group is trying "to reconstitute" as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double those of the previous year. IS has claimed 153 attacks ...