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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s plan to preserve founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s home as a national monument was condemned by his youngest son Tuesday, fueling a bitter, years‑long family dispute over the legacy of the city-state’s founding leader. The government announced on Monday that it intends to preserve Lee’s residence at 38

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government on Monday announced the country was severing diplomatic relations with Mexico over the asylum claim of former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, who is under investigation for rebellion. Peruvian Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela told reporters that Mexico’s decision to grant Chávez asylum at its embassy in Peru’s capital,

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In diplomacy, even short words matter. And with a brief Truth Social post, President Donald Trump may have revealed his approach to the U.S.-China relationship — to the delight of reputation-conscious Beijing but to the worries of U.S. allies concerned with China’s ascending global power. “The G2

By JOHN MYERS, JR. Associated Press MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island’s western region. Before Hurricane Melissa hit on Oct. 28, the government expected Jamaica’s tourism industry to

By MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. Now she is behind bars and at the center of a scandal rocking the country after a bizarre sequence of events that included her abrupt resignation, a brief disappearance and a

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Just days ahead of the U.N. climate conference to be held in Brazil, a group of 300 mayors gathered Monday in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising heat that is hurting many of their residents. The summit was organized by

WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft said Monday it will be shipping Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence chips to the United Arab Emirates as part of a deal approved by the U.S. Commerce Department. The Redmond, Washington software giant said licenses approved in September under “stringent” safeguards enable it to ship more than 60,000 Nvidia chips, including

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Two regions of war-torn Sudan are enduring a famine that is at risk of spreading to other areas of the sprawling northeastern African country, where paramilitary fighters have been battling the military for power for more than two years, a global hunger monitoring group said Monday. Famine

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The latest elections in different African countries have ended with the same outcome: sidelined opposition candidates, disputed results and protests from mostly young voters after incumbents were reelected. The elections featured a bureaucrat in Cameroon who has become the world’s oldest leader with half his life

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians on Monday, the Red Cross said, a day after militants returned the remains of three hostages. Israeli officials identified the three as soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7,

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has received more U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems to help it counter Russia’s daily barrages, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Russian drones killed a man and injured five of his family members, including two children, in the latest nighttime attack. Russia’s relentless pounding of urban

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday blamed foreigners for last week’s deadly protests following a disputed election in which two main opposition candidates were barred from challenging her bid for another term. A regional African bloc, meanwhile, said the Oct. 29 election had fallen short of its standards for democratic

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Skeletons are neighbors for some Palestinians in Gaza who found nowhere but cemeteries to shelter from the war. Gravestones have become seats and tables for families like that of Maisa Brikah, who has lived with her children in a dusty, sun-baked cemetery in the

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Fans flocking to a soccer match in Zapopan chanted “Mexico! Mexico!” while walking past dozens of police officers, bomb-sniffing dogs, metal detectors and drone jammers — as authorities fine-tuned security ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. A few miles away, south of Guadalajara, a different

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi opened a major oil summit Monday with officials offering bullish optimism that power demands for artificial intelligence and global aviation will boost energy prices, just hours after OPEC+ paused production increases planned for next year. The comments at the annual Abu

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday announced that the remains of three hostages had been handed over from Gaza and would be examined by forensic experts, as a fragile month-old ceasefire held. A Hamas statement earlier said the remains were found Sunday in a tunnel in southern Gaza. Since the

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Only a few thousand Sudanese have reached the nearest camp for displaced people in the days since Sudan’s paramilitary forces seized el-Fasher city, raising fears over tens of thousands who might still be trapped as survivors described killings and other atrocities, an aid group said Sunday. The

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says that Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China while the Republican leader is in office. Trump said that the long-contentious issue of Taiwan

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sees tariffs — or the threat of them — as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will. He has used them in an unprecedented way, not only as the underpinning of his economic agenda, but also as the cornerstone of his

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Sunday that two of the suspects in the Louvre jewels heist had previously been convicted in a theft case together 10 years ago, as three alleged members of the team of four are now in custody. Laure Beccuau said the DNA of a

By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Ukraine’s southwestern Odesa region, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine continued to pummel each other’s infrastructure. Russian drones attacked a car park in the Odesa region on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast in the

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press The updates sent by friends and neighbors on WhatsApp confirmed what fisher Prince Davis already feared: Hurricane Melissa put a hole in the stern of his 50-foot (15-meter) fishing boat, and damaged the cabin and back deck. His father’s boat was nowhere to be found. The roof of the

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defense agreement on Sunday to boost combat drills and expand security alliances to deter aggression, officials said. Canada and other Western nations have been bolstering