By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian federal police accuse former president Jair Bolsonaro of receiving large sums of money without apparent justification between March of 2023 and February of 2024, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press ...

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a case that could have sent him to prison for up to 15 years. The 76-year-old Thaksin, ...

By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Thursday, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don't have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The ministry said in a statement that the agreement had been concluded but ...

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China released new interim measures Friday tightening controls on mining and processing of rare earths that are used in many high-tech products including electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets. The rules released Friday by ...

By SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from Arab mediators for a ceasefire in the 22-month war sparked by its Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel. Israel has not yet responded and says it is still committed to defeating the militant ...

By PAN PYLAS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The dilemma of how to house asylum-seekers in Britain got more challenging for the government after a landmark court ruling this week motivated opponents to fight hotels used as accommodation. Politicians on the right ...

By PATRICK ONEN and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Alice Nekesa did not know she was infected with malaria-causing parasites until it was too late. She was in the fourth month of pregnancy last year when she started bleeding, a miscarriage later attributed to ...

BEIJING (AP) — With leader Xi Jinping looking on, China marked 60 years of Communist Party rule in Tibet on Thursday with speeches and a parade in front of the 17th-century Potala Palace, the home of the Dalai Lama until he fled to India in 1959. Speakers hailed economic development in the ...

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president denied on Tuesday that her administration had an agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, a day after the U.S. agency announced "a major new initiative" to collaborate in the fight against drug ...

By SAM McNEIL, DAVID McHUGH and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — American and European Union officials released a bare-bones account Thursday of their trade deal that imposes a 15% import tax on 70% of European goods exported to the United States, but they left blank key ...

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land from ranchers, miners and loggers ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra testified in a Bangkok court Thursday on her alleged breach of an ethics law in her handling of a border dispute with Cambodia, a case that could see her forced out of her job entirely. Paetongtarn, the youngest ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN, SAM METZ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military said Wednesday it will call up 60,000 reservists ahead of an expanded military operation in Gaza City. Many residents have chosen to stay despite the danger, fearing nowhere is safe in a ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and rights groups say could destroy hopes for a future ...

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's federal police said messages found on the telephone of former President Jair Bolsonaro showed he once wanted to flee to Argentina and request political asylum, according to documents seen ...

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand 's government announced new military spending Thursday of 2.7 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.6 billion) to replace aging aircraft, including helicopters it plans to purchase from the United States, ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala on Wednesday granted temporary humanitarian status to 161 Mexicans who fled their country last week seeking refuge from organized crime, even as Mexican officials denied that anyone had been displaced. The Guatemalan Immigration Institute said that 39 ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The son of a former Taiwanese legislator has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for illegally supplying fuel oil to North Korea. A district court in Kaohsiung sentenced Huang Chung-wei to 28 months in prison Tuesday. Five others also received prison ...

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The foreign minister of Germany called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by Hamas after a meeting Wednesday with his counterpart in Indonesia. Johann Wadephul and Indonesian Foreign Minister ...