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By KAMILA HRABCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 4,000 buildings in Kyiv remained without heating Wednesday, and nearly 60% of the Ukrainian capital was without power, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, after days of Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid. With temperatures falling as low as minus 20 C (minus 4 F) in

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 Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland and slap tariffs on its backers pose a challenge to Europe’s security, principles and prosperity, a top EU official said on Wednesday. “All these three dimensions are being tested in the current moment of transatlantic relations,” European Council President

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court ruled Wednesday that the ill-fated imposition of martial law by the then President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion, as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for his involvement. Ex-Prime Minister Han Duck-soo became the

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump appeared Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a day after the elite event produced contentious statements and economic threats arising from tensions between the U.S. and Europe. Nearly 3,000 high-level participants from 130 countries, plus an untold number of activists and observers, are expected

By ANDERS KONGSHAUG Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 15 years ago, Danish platoon commander Martin Tamm Andersen was leading his countrymen and U.S. Marines through the heat and sand of southern Afghanistan after a Taliban attack. As Andersen’s vehicle moved at the rear of the column, everything was normal — until in

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan’s governing party and a controversial South Korean church. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in

By JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Divisions emerged Wednesday over Donald Trump’s Board of Peace envisaged in the U.S. president’s peace plan for Gaza, with some western European countries declining to join while others remained noncommittal. The development underscores European concerns over the controversial and ambitious project — which some

By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press LIRQUÉN, Chile (AP) — Some are frightened, others are dehydrated, most are burned. In order to provide aid to the furry friends and other animals affected by the raging fires in Chile, the national police’s canine brigade and teams of volunteers are working against the clock to provide first aid

By JOSH BOAK, WILL WEISSERT and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but he said he wouldn’t employ force to achieve that — using his speech Wednesday at the World Economic Forum to repeatedly deride European allies and vow

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister issued the most direct threat yet Wednesday against the United States after Tehran’s bloody crackdown on protesters, warning the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack.” The comments by Abbas Araghchi, who

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will hold a national election on Nov. 7, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced Wednesday. Luxon, the leader of a center-right government, will seek a second term in office, with the election likely to be a ballot on whether his pledges

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Valentino Garavani’s death cast a long shadow over the opening day of Paris Fashion Week menswear Tuesday, with front-row guests and industry figures mourning the passing of one of the last towering names of 20th-century couture — an Italian designer whose working life was closely entwined

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to take control of the South American country’s oil. U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post that

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments to crack down on criminal networks it says are smuggling drugs across the border. Mexican Security Minister

By The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Veteran Associated Press videographer Pierre-Richard Luxama was filming a tactical police unit patrolling Haiti’s capital Monday when some of the gang members who control almost the entire city attacked. They set the armored police vehicle’s roof ablaze with Molotov cocktails, filling it with smoke. The officers returned

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland heralds a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance’s preservation as a single military-political bloc, Russia’s top diplomat said Tuesday. “It was hard to imagine before that such a thing could happen,” Foreign

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Tuesday warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s nearly 40-year reign. “Trump knows that if any hand of aggression is extended toward

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government on Tuesday approved a huge new Chinese Embassy in central London, despite strong criticism from lawmakers across the political spectrum that it could become a base for espionage and intimidation of opponents. Local Government Secretary Steve Reed formally signed off on plans for the building

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — While Europe is pushing back publicly against U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland, the language appears softer behind the scenes. Trump published a text message on Tuesday that he received from French President Emmanuel Macron, confirmed as genuine by Macron’s office. Starting with “My friend,” Macron’s tone

By ELENA BECATOROS and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians have been struggling for nearly two weeks with the longest, most comprehensive internet shutdown in the history of the Islamic Republic — one that has not only restricted their access to information and the outside world, but is also throttling

By ADIL JAWAD and MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The bodies of five more people were recovered on Tuesday from the scene of last weekend’s massive fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan’s largest city, bringing the confirmed death toll to 28, officials said. The search for dozens of people reported missing

By WILL WEISSERT, JAMEY KEATEN and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pledge to provoke a sweeping tariff fight with Europe to get his way in taking control of Greenland has left many of America’s closest allies warning of a rupture with Washington capable of shattering the NATO alliance that had

By SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to millions of people across the region. Crews began bulldozing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ’s offices

By KAMILA HRABCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gave no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month in an attack that authorities say was inspired by the Islamic State group. The gun laws create new restrictions on gun

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national. The cause of the blast was still under investigation, authorities said Tuesday. The militant group said in a