By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is seeking to arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer, as it denied the warship suffered major damage — a claim quickly met with outside skepticism.
A ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Prosecutors in Turkey issued arrest warrants for 63 active-duty military personnel Friday over links to a group accused of attempting a coup in 2016.
Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said the suspects included four colonels and came from the army, navy, air force and ...
By THOMAS ADAMSON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — A senior Israeli diplomat on Thursday defended his country's military after soldiers fired warning shots near a delegation of European diplomats visiting the occupied West Bank, an incident France condemned as ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area in the Amazon — marking a major breakthrough for Indigenous land claims.
The decision affirms ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Florida court awarded the Mexican government a massive civil judgment Thursday against its former security chief who is now serving a lengthy prison sentence in the United States for taking bribes from drug traffickers.
Judge Lisa Walsh ordered Genaro García Luna to pay ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Organization of American States came under pressure Thursday to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and ...
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The European Union's top foreign policy official said Thursday that membership candidate Serbia faces a "strategic choice" of direction, just weeks after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic defied EU warnings and attended Russia's ...
By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try to resolve the issue of Islamic State group prisoners held in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published Thursday.
The Kurdish-led ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take "special measures" to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has multiple major sites associated with its rapidly advancing nuclear program, now the subject of several rounds of negotiations with the United States.
The sites across the country, including one in the heart of ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.
Pham, 58, is currently an auxiliary bishop in the diocese. He fills the vacancy created when Pope ...
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, after overcoming last-minute legal hurdles Thursday.
The deal will transfer ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court prosecutors have urged judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister while the court reconsiders its jurisdiction ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States will hold talks Friday in Rome, their fifth round of negotiations over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program.
The talks follow previously negotiations in both Rome and in Muscat, ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The sentiment in South Africa ahead of its leader's meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday was one of fear and trepidation.
"Into the mouth of Trump hell" was how one newspaper headline described his ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the "heartbreaking" toll on its people, as he presided over his first general audience in St. Peter's Square.
The Vatican said that around ...
By MARÍA VERZA and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least four people were involved in the killing of the personal secretary and a close adviser of Mexico City 's Mayor Clara Brugada, the capital's police chief said Wednesday, as more details emerged of the worst ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday that $365 million originally slated for solar projects in Puerto Rico will be diverted to improve the island's crumbling power grid, sparking an outcry just days before the ...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Authorities in Tanzania on Wednesday blocked access to the social platform X after cyberattacks on some accounts of government institutions resulted in fake or pornographic posts.
After authorities said it was taken over by hackers late Tuesday, the police ...