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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The speaker of Iran’s parliament said Sunday that the Islamic Republic now considers all European Union militaries to be terrorist groups, lashing out after the bloc declared the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a terror group over its bloody crackdown on nationwide protests. The announcement

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released Friday by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. Many have denied having close ties to

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s royal family is facing a fresh round of embarrassment after the latest release of documents from the U.S. investigation into Jeffrey Epstein revealed unsavory details about the relationship between the convicted sex offender and a correspondent who appears to be the man formerly known as Prince

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An explosion tore through an apartment building Saturday in Iran ‘s port city of Bandar Abbas, killing a 4-year-old girl as local media footage purportedly showed a security force member being carried out by rescuers. The blast happened a day before a planned naval

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Emergency power cuts swept across several Ukrainian cities as well as neighboring Moldova on Saturday, officials said, amid a commitment from the Kremlin to U.S. President Donald Trump to pause strikes on Kyiv as Ukraine battles one of its bleakest winters in years. Ukraine’s Energy Minister

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military said Saturday that multiple suicide and gun attacks by “terrorists” across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan killed 33 people, including civilians, while security forces responding to the violence killed 92 assailants. Analysts described it as the deadliest single day for

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians including several children on Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire, a day after Israel accused Hamas of new truce violations. The strikes hit locations

By JUSTIN KABUMBA, RUTH ALONGA AND MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A landslide earlier this week collapsed several mines at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead, rebel authorities said Saturday. The collapse took place Wednesday at the Rubaya mines, which are controlled by the

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — When a drug cartel came calling at a store selling vapes in northern Mexico, the owners knew they were powerless. The cartel abducted two employees, blindfolded them and demanded to speak with their bosses. The cartel said it was seizing the store, which would only be

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim dashed from building to building, desperate for places to hide. He ran through streets littered with bodies. Around him, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur province lay enveloped in smoke and fire. Explosions, shelling and gunfire thundered from every direction. After 18 months of

By DIDI TANG and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a busy few weeks receiving Western allies seeking warmer ties with the world’s second-largest economy. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a trade deal slashing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and Canadian canola oil. U.K. Prime Minister Keir

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Friday announced an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners, including opposition leaders, journalists and human rights activists detained for political reasons. The measure had long been sought by the United States-backed opposition. It

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that the world body faces “imminent financial collapse” unless its financial rules are overhauled or all 193 member nations pay their dues — a message likely directed at the United States and the billions it owes. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER, SAVANNAH PETERS and STEWART HUNTINGTON Associated Press/ICT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooded Minneapolis, Shane Mantz dug his Choctaw Nation citizenship card out of a box on his dresser and slid it into his wallet. Some strangers mistake the pest-control company manager for Latino, he said, and

By MATTHEW LEE, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region, according to an Arab

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Massive power outages in Cuba meant that many people awoke Friday unaware that U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to the Caribbean island. As word spread in Havana and beyond, anger and anguish boiled over about

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has sent a host of U.S. military assets into the Middle East over the past several weeks, including an aircraft carrier group and its thousands of troops, as President Donald Trump indicates he is maintaining the possibility of strikes on Iran. “We have a lot

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cubans are hustling to become more self-sufficient as the U.S. government tightens its economic noose over the communist-run island in a move experts say is meant to force a popular uprising and usher in a new government. A sharp increase in U.S. sanctions was already suffocating Cubans

HAVANA (AP) — Caribbean correspondent Dánica Coto returned to Cuba in late January, more than three years after her last visit to the island. The landscape and lives in Cuba are now very different, and more changes are anticipated since the fallout of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Cuba’s strongest ally, has yet to be

By JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press CEBU, Philippines (AP) — A peace plan agreed on by Southeast Asian leaders five years ago has failed to end Myanmar’s civil war but it could still serve as a basis for working with the new government that will emerge from recent elections there, Thailand’s top diplomat

By SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Friday that it will reopen the pedestrian border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt over the weekend, marking an important step forward for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan. COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said in

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced a new agreement on Friday with the country’s central government in Damascus to stabilize a ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting and to lay out steps toward integrating the two sides. The development is the latest as Syria’s new

By SAMUEL GETACHEW Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s national carrier canceled flights to and from the troubled northern region of Tigray, as fears grow of renewed fighting between federal troops and regional forces. For a second day, Ethiopian Airlines wasn’t flying to Tigray on Friday, with customers receiving messages that cited “unplanned

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a pre-Grammy event celebrating Black music’s cultural power, Pharrell Williams used the Recording Academy stage to deliver a prayer — not for himself, but for U.S. leaders. “I want to pray for the leaders of this nation and the powers that be,” Williams

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack in Niger on an air force base in the capital that wounded four soldiers and damaged an aircraft. The claim of responsibility was contained in a statement on Amaq News Agency, the group’s propaganda

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The terms of a Russian commitment to U.S. President Donald Trump to temporarily halt its bombardment of Ukraine during one of the country’s bleakest winters in years remained unclear Friday, as Ukrainians braced for even worse conditions to come next week. Trump said late Thursday that

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press ROJ CAMP, Syria (AP) — Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group and living in a Syrian camp housing more than 2,000 people near the border with Iraq are hoping that an amnesty may be on the horizon after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led force that guards