Month: November 2025

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Eswatini on Tuesday became the first African country to receive lenacapavir, the first twice-yearly HIV prevention injection hailed by global health officials as a game-changer in the fight against a virus that has killed tens of millions of people across the continent. Developed by Gilead Sciences,

By The Associated Press Russian lawmakers endorsed new tax hikes on Tuesday as Moscow looks for new revenue sources to boost its economy during its nearly four-year war with Ukraine. Legislators in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved the key second reading of a bill that will raise value-added tax from 20%

By ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — At the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, artificial intelligence is being cast as both a hero worthy of praise and a villain that needs policing. Tech companies and a handful of countries at the conference known as COP30 are promoting ways AI can help solve

By CLAUDIA CIOBANU Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. Speaking to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, Tusk said the two suspects had been collaborating with the

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian attackers stabbed an Israeli to death and wounded three more in the West Bank on Tuesday before being shot down by troops in the latest violence to rock the occupied territory, the Israeli military said. The attack follows a spate of settler violence against Palestinians across

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s full-scale invasion, which began nearly four years ago. The Kremlin said that Russia would not be sending anyone to Turkey, and it was

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a court suit that withholding the yeast-based spread breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.” Andre McKechnie, 54, serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle for

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — He was one of the most powerful police officers in New Zealand and a year ago almost won the country’s top law enforcement job. But the public didn’t know Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming was facing claims of sexual abuse during an affair with a

By PETER SMITH and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press After decades of fierce controversies over sexuality and theology in the Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition say it’s time to make a final break from what has long been one of the world’s largest Protestant church families. That would make a slow-growing Anglican schism

By DIDI TANG and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Washington has been warning others not to trust loans from Chinese state banks fueling its rise as a superpower. But a new report reveals an ironic twist: The United States is the biggest recipient of all — by far. And the security