By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada's incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he's ready to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump if he respects Canadian sovereignty and is open to talk about a common approach to trade. Trump has declared a trade war on his ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief launched a new initiative Wednesday to reform the United Nations as it approaches its 80th anniversary, saying the 193-member global organization needs an urgent update to deal with major funding reductions and still ...
By MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The government of Congo will hold peace talks next week in Angola with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that has captured key areas of Congo's mineral-rich east, mediator Angola announced Wednesday. A statement from Angolan ...
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful gang coalition has launched new attacks on Haiti's capital, driving dozens of families from homes as police vowed Wednesday to hold the gunmen back. Authorities evacuated students at a Catholic school in western ...
By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal slid back into more political uncertainty Wednesday after its third government fell in as many years when Prime Minister Luis Montenegro lost a confidence vote in Parliament. The demise of the minority ...
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed Wednesday, officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion, and Ukrainian officials signaled that they ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody, the vessel's owner said Wednesday, as it emerged that the ship failed several safety checks last year. The 59-year-old man, ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was being flown to the Netherlands on Wednesday to face an International Criminal Court charge of crimes against humanity linked to the deadly crackdown on drugs he oversaw while in ...
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press NUUK, Greenland (AP) — The center-right Demokraatit Party won the most votes in a surprising result in Greenland's parliamentary elections, held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of taking control of the island one way or ...
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Activist groups are calling for the United Nations to investigate its special envoy to Myanmar over possible conflicts of interest, after a report detailed her consulting company's alleged ties to Chinese mining and construction companies ...
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA undefined BUENOS AIRES (AP) — An Argentine court on Tuesday started its trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona, at age 60. Maradona was under the care of those professionals when he had a cardiac ...
By WILSON MCMAKIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Angola on Tuesday announced plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23, according to a press release posted on the official page of the Angolan president's office. Felix ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The European Union has a message for the Trump administration: It will continue supporting Ukraine against Russia's illegal invasion, step up humanitarian aid when others pull back, and boost global teamwork to ...
CAIRO (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it completed its fourth review of Egypt's economic reform program approving a $1.2 billion disbursement for the North African country. The IMF said in a statement it completed its fourth review on Monday and Egyptian authorities can ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Tuesday extended its ban on flights to Haiti's capital until Sept. 8 because of escalating gang violence, which the U.N.'s human rights expert on the Caribbean nation said is more dire than ever. The Federal ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday his government intends to put 100,000 volunteers through military training yearly starting in 2027 as it seeks to build an army of reservists with worries about Russia growing. He also said he told Cabinet ministers that ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter as they searched for answers about why it hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England, setting both vessels ablaze. ...
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The European Union wants to increase deportations and is opening the way for "return hubs" to be set up in third countries for rejected asylum-seekers, according to a new migration proposal unveiled Tuesday. Only 20% of people with a deportation order are ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's aviation agency on Tuesday suspended the operating license for local airline Voepass, citing security risks as an investigation continues into a crash in August that killed all 62 people on board. One of the company's six ...
PARIS (AP) — An appeals court in Paris upheld Tuesday a ruling that found the French government guilty of wrongful negligence for using a banned pesticide in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. About 1,300 people filed the lawsuit in 2020, seeking, among other things, ...