By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived in Egypt on Monday for a global summit on Gaza's future as he tries to advance peace in the Middle East after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — All 20 living hostages held by Hamas and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel walked free Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that decimated the Gaza Strip and ...

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, MIKE CORDER and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how innovation creates new products and promotes economic growth and human ...

PARIS (AP) — France's financial prosecution office informed former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday which prison to report to and when, pending his appeal after being sentenced to five years for criminal conspiracy involving the use of funds from Libya to finance his winning 2007 ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The announcement Monday that three laureates will share the Nobel memorial prize in economics for explaining innovation-driven growth brings this year's Nobel awards to a close. All but the Nobel Peace Prize, which was announced on Friday in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, are ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan said Sunday it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace. Pakistan's army gave far lower casualty figures, saying 23 troops were killed. Earlier in the ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Their faces stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well-known as celebrities. They are civilians and soldiers, fathers and ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — María Corina Machado has long been the face of resistance to Venezuela's 26-year ruling party. Now, she may become a symbol of peace, too. Machado, the Venezuelan opposition powerhouse who prompted millions ...

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvians woke up to their seventh president in less than a decade Friday, as 38-year-old José Jerí took the reins of the shaken nation after Congress ousted widely loathed President Dina Boluarte in a lightning overnight ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid to end the country's political deadlock. Lecornu's re-appointment followed ...

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — At a massive military parade attended by foreign leaders, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rolled out his nuclear-armed military's most powerful weapons, including a new intercontinental ballistic missile he may ...

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, REGINA GARCIA CANO and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a ...

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI PRISTINA, Kosovo PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo's Parliament on Friday ended an eight-month political deadlock by electing its full leadership, including a representative from the ethnic Serb minority, clearing the path for the formation of a new ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Friday rejected a request from former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to be released from detention, finding he was likely to refuse to return for trial and could use his ...

By KEN MORITSUGU and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan will accelerate the building of a "Taiwan Shield" or "T-Dome" air defense system in the face of the military threat from China, its leader said Friday. President Lai Ching-te also pledged to raise defense ...

PARIS (AP) — After a week of intense political turmoil, French President Emmanuel Macron is set to appoint a new prime minister Friday in his latest bid to break the political deadlock that has gripped the country for more than a year, as France struggles with mounting economic challenges and ...

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A U.S. peace plan has propelled former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the forefront of efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. While his legacy in the Middle East is controversial, especially given his ...

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Thursday requested an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council focused on the U.S. military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country. Venezuela made the request in a letter addressed to Russia's ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Thursday that 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid is ready to enter Gaza and that it is seeking a green light from Israel to massively increase help for more ...