Month: December 2025

By JEAN YVES KAMALE, EDITH M. LEDERER and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S.-mediated peace deal.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities said Saturday the suspect who killed three people and injured 11 others in knife and smoke-grenade attacks in the island’s capital had planned the assaults and set fires at other locations earlier in the day. The suspect, identified as a 27-year-old man named Chang Wen, fell to his death

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — The Trump administration restricted visas for two leftist Honduran election officials, citing interference in the Central American country’s special vote count. The U.S. State Department said in a statement Friday it revoked the visa of Mario Morazán, a magistrate of the Electoral Justice Tribunal, and denied a visa application from Marlon Ochoa,

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The only official document human rights advocate Uladzimir Labkovich had with him when he was suddenly released from a Belarus prison, blindfolded and driven to neighboring Ukraine was a piece of paper with his name and mugshot on it. “After four and half years of abuse