By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting in a jungle area near the northeastern border with China, lamented ...

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar's top court on Friday ratified the victory of incumbent President Andry Rajoelina in last month's election, giving him a third term as leader following a boycott of the vote by opposition candidates. The High ...

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ask most people what the annual U.N. climate talks are and the likely answer will be: "Huh?" Ask those who do know and the answer may be: "Why should I care?" The negotiations, called Conference of Parties, are nearly ...

By JAMES JORDAN, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the war with Russia is in a new stage, with winter expected to complicate fighting after a summer counteroffensive that failed to produce desired results ...

By CATERINA MORBIATO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The day he was arrested, Luis was in a government office trying to get a document attesting to his clean criminal history so he could apply for a call center job. "What I wanted at that time was something better for my life," said ...

Pressure builds to eliminate fossil fuel use as oil executive takes over climate talks By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The pressure to phase out fossil fuels is mounting on the oil company chief who is leading fragile international climate ...

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lawyer Isabel Lazo's jobs are being systematically canceled by Nicaragua's increasingly repressive government. Lazo worked at a university before the government of President Daniel Ortega closed it. She now is employed at a ...

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday stepped up calls for Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians as it wages its war against Hamas in Gaza. On his third trip to the Middle East since the war ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina will not be joining the BRICS bloc of developing economies next year as scheduled, a senior official in President-elect Javier Milei's team said Thursday. "We will not join the BRICS," Diana Mondino, who Milei picked as foreign minister once he is ...

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's president-elect, Javier Milei, announced Wednesday he has chosen Luis Caputo, a former finance minister and Central Bank chief known as an expert in markets, to lead the Economy Ministry when the right-wing leader ...

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's leader on Wednesday presented a 27.5 trillion naira ($34.8 billion) spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers, with a focus on stabilizing Africa's largest but ailing economy and tackling the nation's deadly security ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN, NAJIB JOBAIN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute Thursday to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day. But any further renewal of the deal that has seen dozens of hostages and prisoners released could ...

By JAMEY KEATEN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world just took a big step toward compensating countries hit by deadly floods, heat and droughts. Nearly all the world's nations on Thursday finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries ...

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani province is setting targets for police to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of Afghans it says are in the country illegally, officials said Thursday. The measure is part of a nationwide crackdown ...

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will not support any European Union proposal to begin talks on making Ukraine a member of the bloc, a government minister said Thursday. Gergely Gulyas, the chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said at ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said on Thursday that he is suffering from acute, infectious bronchitis and that doctors recommended he cancel his planned visit to Dubai this weekend to avoid the quick changes in temperature that would be involved. "As you can see, I'm alive," Francis quipped at ...

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, local officials said Thursday, killing at least one person and burying families under rubble as the Kremlin's forces continued to pound the ...

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a species of mole with an iridescent golden coat and the ability to almost "swim" through sand dunes after it hadn't been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be ...

By JAMEY KEATEN and BASSAM HATOUM Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves ...

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A gay couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it. "After 23 years of struggle we got this historic ...