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By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday applauded the United Nations’ approval of the Trump administration’s blueprint to secure and govern Gaza, while Hamas rejected the plan as a foreign instrument of control. The resolution that passed the U.N. Security Council on Monday authorizes an international stabilization

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 invasion, which began nearly four years ago. Turkey provided a setting for low-level talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier this year, though the

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

By MELINA WALLING, SETH BORENSTEIN and ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press With a direct letter sent to nations, host country Brazil is shifting the U.N. climate conference into a higher gear. The letter sent late Monday comes during the final week of what has been billed as a historic climate summit, the first ever in

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to fete Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday when the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia makes his first White House visit since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents. The U.S.-Saudi relationship had been sent

By HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Mint is celebrating Freddie Mercury with a new coin design that marks 40 years since his iconic Live Aid concert performance. The coin features an image of the Queen front man, head thrown back and holding the microphone stand midperformance. A musical stave that runs

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite some concern within the administration that such a sale could lead to China gaining access to the U.S. technology behind the advanced weapon system. The announcement came on the eve of Saudi

By ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods,