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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on five Costa Ricans and five Costa Rican entities for allegedly helping to transport tons of cocaine from Colombia, storing the drugs in Costa Rica, then shipping them to the U.S. and Europe. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control alleges that

By WILSON MCMAKIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea-Bissau is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns in the West African country, pending an ethical review, the health minister said Thursday. A six-person ethics committee didn’t meet to review the study during the initial confirmation process, Health Minister Quinhi Nantot said

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — For days it seemed there was no way out of the latest standoff between Europe and the United States: U.S. President Donald Trump insisted he must have Greenland — and would settle for nothing short of total ownership. Even after he dropped the threat of

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The decision to move prisoners of the Islamic State group from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq came after a request by officials in Baghdad that was welcomed by the U.S.-led coalition and the Syrian government, officials said Thursday. American and Iraqi officials

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rafael Tudares Bracho, the son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González, was released on Thursday after being held incommunicado for more than a year, said his wife, Mariana González, daughter of the former presidential candidate. The release comes just two months after Tudares was sentenced to 30 years in prison and

By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday. The operation was backed by Interpol — the international police cooperation agency that helps

By LORNE COOK and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are gathering for emergency talks on Thursday to chart a new course in transatlantic relations after a tumultuous two weeks dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to take control of Greenland. On the eve of their summit, Trump dramatically

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump used the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to unveil a proposed “ Board of Peace ” for Gaza, bringing leaders from more than a dozen countries onstage Thursday, although many top American allies aren’t participating in the board. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, scolded European allies

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Campaigning began Thursday for Bangladesh’s first national elections since the 2024 uprising that ousted longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The major political parties held campaign rallies in the capital, Dhaka, and elsewhere ahead of Feb. 12 election, which is seen as the most consequential in Bangladesh’s

By STEVEN SLOAN and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely a month into his presidency, Joe Biden had a message for Europe. “America is back,” Biden told the Munich Security Conference in 2021. “The transatlantic alliance is back.” It was a promise Biden delivered often as he sought to cast the disruptions of

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two organizers of Hong Kong’s long-running vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown pleaded not guilty Thursday, while a third pleaded guilty before the trial brought under a national security law that has largely erased dissent in the city. Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump’s ambition for the “Board of Peace” to play a role in global conflicts beyond Gaza appears to be the latest U.S. attempt to sidestep the U.N. Security Council, raising new questions about the relevance of the 80-year-old world body

By ISABEL DEBRE and VICTOR CAIVANO Associated Press ZÁRATE, Argentina (AP) — The vast field of over 5,800 electric and hybrid vehicles gleamed on the cargo deck of the BYD Changzhou, an Chinese container vessel unloading Wednesday at a river port in eastern Argentina. In other places, such a scene would not be noteworthy. Chinese

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Two tumultuous weeks saw the fall from power in Syria of the Kurdish-led force that was once the main U.S. partner there, as Washington shifts its backing to the country’s nascent government. Analysts say the Syrian Democratic Forces miscalculated, taking a hard stance in negotiations with the

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe this week over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers responded with a mixture of glee, gloating and wariness. Some touted Trump’s move as historic. Others said it weakens the European Union and NATO

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a “sovereign decision” by her government. Sheinbaum responded to criticism from analysts and opponents who said that the transfers on

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Love is, famously, a many-splendored thing. It can encompass longing, loneliness, pain, jealousy, grief — and, sometimes, joy. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the many facets of passion are going on display in “Love Letters,” a public exhibition at Britain’s National Archives that covers five centuries. Curator Victoria

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the war-battered enclave ‘s deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October. The United States is trying

By KAMILA HRABCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 4,000 buildings in Kyiv lacked heat Wednesday and nearly 60% of the Ukrainian capital was without power, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, after days of Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid and as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to hold talks with the Ukrainian leader.

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Days after suspected gang members killed 10 Guatemalan police officers, police and soldiers took their new powers granted under a state of emergency to the Barrio 18 gang’s center of operations in the north of the capital. Dozens of police officers and soldiers, some carrying

By LORNE COOK and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland and impose tariffs on its backers pose a challenge to Europe’s security, principles and prosperity, European Council President António Costa said on Wednesday. “All these three dimensions are being tested in the current moment of transatlantic