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By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he’s moving to set up direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as he can, after Putin opted to skip peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. “I think it’s time for

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An environment conference opened in Nepal on Friday to discuss global climate change, including the impact on the highest Himalayan peaks where snow and ice are melting. The three-day conference in Kathmandu titled, “Climate Change, Mountains and the Future of Humanity,” is expected to include discussions

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump President Donald Trump on Friday wrapped up a Mideast tour in the United Arab Emirates with a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an interfaith place of worship named for the Abraham Accords he negotiated. As part of the accords, the UAE and some other countries

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A construction magnate, builders, designers and engineers surrendered to police Friday on criminal negligence charges for the deadly collapse of a Bangkok high-rise in the March 28 earthquake that hit Myanmar. Premchai Karnasuta, the president of Italian-Thai Development Co, the main Thai contractor for the building project,

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — As Romania braces for a high-stakes presidential runoff this weekend between two starkly different candidates, 25-year-old medical resident Alexandra Bejinariu is anxious about which direction her European Union nation will choose in the closely watched vote. Like many voters, the young medic views Sunday’s ballot between

By LLAZAR SEMINI and LORNE COOK Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — European leaders agreed on Friday to press ahead with joint action against Russia over the failure to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, after consultations with U.S. President Donald Trump. Starmer spoke from Albania’s capital, Tirana, where

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — A new photo of Leo XIV stands by frescoes representing past papal visits to a Virgin Mary icon in the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel, commemorating where he prayed two days after being elected pope. But the new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to

By SAM METZ Associated Press KALAAT M’GOUNA, Morocco (AP) — Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows. “Thank God for the rain,” said rose picker Fatima El Alami. “There are roses elsewhere, but there’s nowhere like here.” She’s right. Mild temperatures, steady sunlight, and low

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press They arrive at the U.S. border from around the world: Eritrea, Guatemala, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Uzbekistan and so many other countries. They come for asylum, insisting they face persecution for their religion, or sexuality or for supporting the wrong politicians. For generations, they had been given the chance to make

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Chautauqua County

By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President José Mujica on Thursday as a generous and charismatic leader whose legacy of humility remained an example for the world’s politicians. “A person like Pepe Mujica doesn’t die,” Brazil’s

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim this week that there is an unreported “genocide” happening against white farmers in South Africa was his harshest accusation yet against a country he moved to punish over a range of issues soon after returning to office. Trump’s criticism

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him. Researchers described the case in a new study, saying he’s among the first to be successfully treated with a custom therapy that seeks to

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has defended using the term “genocide” to describe what aid workers are trying to prevent in Gaza, saying the world should not make the same mistakes seen in past violations of international law, when it wasn’t “called out soon enough.” Tom

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Britain is talking with several countries to host rejected asylum seekers as they wait to be deported, the U.K. prime minister said Thursday. Prime Minister Kier Starmer said on a visit to Albania that the “return hub” concept was a “really important innovation” that could more

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — They might look like lost tourists — unkempt and overloaded with gear — or hikers with military haircuts, survival gear and no clue how to behave in the woods. But Latvia’s intelligence agency said Wednesday that they might actually be Russian saboteurs and spies. In its

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna. The northern Swiss city isn’t known as an epicenter of steamy wood-cabin relaxation, but the small municipality of Vora in Finland is, and three local performers have made saunas

By JUSTIN KABUMBA AND MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities have accused Rwanda’s army and the M23 rebel group it backs of murdering dozens, kidnapping thousands more and committing rape, torture and looting in the war-torn country’s east. The alleged crimes were committed between May 10 and 13 against civilians accused

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Estonia warned on Thursday that Russia appears willing to defend with military force its shadow fleet of aging tankers dodging international sanctions to keep oil revenue and equipment flowing, even through the territorial waters of European countries. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that a Russian fighter jet entered NATO airspace

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday that the organization’s procurement agency is cooperating with police investigating corruption and fraud allegations involving the purchase of military equipment. The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) helps the 32 members of the world’s biggest security alliance and their partners to buy defense equipment and other

By MEHMET GUZEL, HANNA ARHIROVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are set to hold their first direct peace talks in three years, both countries said Thursday, but hopes for a breakthrough remained dim after Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned an offer by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associted Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said Thursday. The T-4 training aircraft, operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, or JASDF, and carrying two service members,

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s airport authority will start to limit access to Madrid’s airport during some parts of the day as a preventive measure to stop more homeless people from sleeping in its terminals. Only travelers with boarding passes, airport employees and those accompanying someone with a ticket will be allowed to enter the airport

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, while another airstrike in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen people

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Lawmakers in Colombia on Wednesday once again blocked President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to overhaul the country’s labor laws, this time by rejecting a referendum that would have asked voters whether workdays should be limited to eight hours and whether workers should receive double pay if they work during holidays. Petro asked

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A gleaming spiral staircase jutting from the roof of a former Dutch warehouse overlooks the waterway where millions of Europeans once boarded ships bound for a new life in the United States. The twisting path, intended to represent migrants’ unexpected journeys, stands on the Fenix museum,

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A war next door in Ukraine.Migration pressure at borders. Russian sabotage across the region. Doubts about the U.S. commitment to Europe’s security. In Poland’s presidential election Sunday, security looms large. So do questions about the country’s strength as a democracy and its place in the European

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets nominations for bishops. But he also has said decisively that women cannot be ordained as priests,

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. Some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with

By MATTHEW LEE, LORNE COOK and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — NATO foreign ministers on Thursday debated an American demand to massively ramp up defense investment as the United States focuses on security challenges outside of Europe. At talks in Antalya, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said more investment and military equipment are