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By WAFAA SHURAFA and MARIAM FAM Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Eager for the bloodshed, displacement and destruction to stop, many Palestinians in Gaza were relieved to hear news that Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their devastating two-year war. But it was mixed with pain from staggering losses and

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Thursday acknowledged attacking a religious festival held on the grounds of a school in central Myanmar, which witnesses said killed about two dozen people, including children, when improvised bombs were dropped by motorized paragliders. A statement issued by the military’s information office blamed

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first public admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease tensions between the neighbors. Putin said the missiles fired by

By LEE KEATH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A breakthrough deal pausing the war in Gaza has been reached. But will it lead, as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed, to “a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace”? It took pressure on both Israel and Hamas from the United States, Arab countries and Turkey,

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.” The Nobel

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian luxury sports carmaker Ferrari raised its 2025 guidance on Thursday in the face of global 15% tariffs on foreign car imports to the United States as the company unveiled the new powertrain and chassis of its first fully electric production vehicle. Yet the debut of its

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized how the wealthy live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while poor people suffer on the margins, confirming in his first teaching document that he is in perfect lockstep with his predecessor Pope Francis on matters of social and economic injustice.

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — World leaders on Thursday expressed hope for peace and urged Israel and Hamas to fulfill their commitments in the hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the parties had agreed to the “first phase” of a deal signaling a major breakthrough in the two-year war

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Jerry churned Thursday in the Atlantic on its approach to the Leeward Islands as Tropical Storm Priscilla and Tropical Storm Raymond moved along Mexico’s Pacific coast, threatening heavy rain and flooding in their paths, forecasters said. Tropical Storm Raymond was announced midday Thursday by the U.S. National Hurricane Center in

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize has drawn added attention to the annual guessing game over who its next laureate will be. Longtime Nobel watchers say Trump’s prospects remain remote despite a flurry of high-profile nominations and some notable foreign policy

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Strikes on Russian oil facilities by Ukraine’s newly developed long-range missiles and drones are causing significant gas shortages in Russia, while on the battlefield a recent Ukrainian counter-offensive has derailed Russia’s plans to capture parts of the eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Ukraine’s

By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel’s Cabinet early Friday approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East.

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations will begin slashing its peacekeeping force and operations, forcing thousands of soldiers in the next several months to evacuate far-flung global hotspots as a result of the latest U.S. funding cuts to the world body, a senior U.N. official said. The official, who

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the contentious Keystone XL pipeline project with U.S. President Donald Trump during his White House visit this week, a government official familiar with the matter said Wednesday. A Canadian company pulled the plug on it four years

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday there were “signs” that Colombian citizens were killed in the last small boat attacked by the U.S. military off the coast of Venezuela. “A new front in the war has opened: the Caribbean,” Petro wrote on the social platform X. “Signs show that the last

By JONEL ALECCIA and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press After two years of war and dire food shortages, more than 54,600 children younger than 5 in Gaza may be acutely malnourished, with more than 12,800 severely affected, according to a new study by a U.N. agency. By early August, roughly 16% of children ages 6

By AAMER MADHANI, SEUNG MIN KIM, MATTHEW LEE and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has yet to provide underlying evidence to lawmakers proving that alleged drug-smuggling boats targeted by the U.S. military in a series of fatal strikes were in fact carrying narcotics, according to two U.S. officials familiar with

By MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Six South African activists who were detained by Israel while attempting to reach Gaza as part of an aid flotilla said Wednesday they were subjected to harsher treatment than other detainees because of South Africa’s role in a genocide case against Israel. Speaking after their return, the

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has nearly doubled to 680,000, according to a new UNICEF report released Wednesday that warns minors are increasingly facing hunger, violence and recruitment by armed groups in the Caribbean nation. Overall, around 6 million

By SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — As talks on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release gather pace, Hamas is expected to seek the release of some of the highest-profile prisoners held by Israel, including the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian political figure: Marwan Barghouti. Israel views Barghouti and the

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin began a state visit Wednesday in Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings with leaders of other nations that once were part of the Soviet Union. Trade and other ties with Tajikistan and other countries in Central Asia are increasingly important for Russia amid sweeping

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA (AP) — Talks on bringing an end to the war in Gaza are on the verge of reaching a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday. Turkish, Qatari, Egyptian and U.S. mediators are working to realize an American plan that calls for an immediate

By STEFANIE DAZIO and ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made decades ago. One of the medicine prize winners, meanwhile, was on vacation in Yellowstone

By SARAH RAZA Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — When Rob Coverdale started his job in 2023 as superintendent of the K-12 Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, there were 15 unfilled teaching positions. Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority of whom arrived on the H-1B,

BRUSSELS (AP) — Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Wednesday voted to ban the labelling of vegetarian protein with terms such as “steak” or “meat.” The lawmakers voted 532 to 78 to define meat as “edible parts of animals” and to curtail the use of words like steak, escalope, sausage or burger for animal and

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV, bringing him a packet of letters from immigrant families “terrorized” by fear that they and their loved ones will be rounded up and deported as the Trump administration’s

By SAMY MAGDY, SAM MEDNICK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed Wednesday to pause fighting in Gaza so that the remaining hostages there can be freed in the coming days in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, accepting elements of a plan put forward by the Trump administration that would represent

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments.

By MELANIE LIDMAN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military intercepted a nine-boat flotilla trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea and detained scores of activists on board, the flotilla organizers and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said the 145

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The trial of two British men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed because the U.K. government refused to brand China a threat to national security, the country’s chief prosecutor said. Former parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and academic Christopher Berry were charged in April 2024