AP World News

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Beijing’s top diplomat in Hong Kong met with the city’s new U.S. Consul General this week to warn her against interfering in the territory’s internal affairs, his office said in a statement Thursday. Cui Jianchun, commissioner of the Hong Kong office of China’s foreign ministry, met

By GHAYA BEN MBAREK Associated Press HAMMAM CHOTT, Tunisia (AP) — Jamel Bahrini remembers the smell of dust and blood that clung to the air when he arrived at the scene of the strike in Tunisia ‘s capital 40 years ago, among hundreds of other first responders. Israeli warplanes had just struck the Palestine Liberation

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, health officials said Thursday, as Hamas was still considering its response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for ending the nearly two-year war. The plan requires Hamas to

By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Israeli police officers were deployed Thursday to the southern port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier in the Mediterranean Sea, Israeli authorities said. The activists, including European lawmakers, were taking part of a

By HANNA ARHIROVA and BARRY HATTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s sustained bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid is deepening concerns about the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities after a drone knocked out power for more than three hours to the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in northern Ukraine, officials said

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish journalist Fatih Altayli has been imprisoned, but his reporting remains defiantly alive. From behind bars, the veteran journalist delivers news and sharp political commentary on his YouTube channel through letters relayed by his lawyers. The letters are read aloud by an assistant in an initiative

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president apologized Thursday for poorly managed foreign adoption programs that were rife with abuses and fraud, months after the country’s truth commission admitted state responsibilities for such practices for the first time. President Lee Jae Myung said in a Facebook post that he

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The core of Hurricane Imelda was moving past Bermuda early Thursday as weather conditions were expected to improve around the tiny British territory that reported major power outages and downed trees — but no injuries. A tropical storm warning remained in effect after the Category 2 storm swiped the

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Scores of political prisoners pardoned by the authoritarian leader of Belarus sat on a bus waiting to cross the border with Lithuania last month, minutes from freedom. Suddenly, one of them stood up, forced the door open and got off, defiantly refusing to leave his homeland

By NINIEK KARMINI and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescue authorities made the tough decision on Thursday to start using heavy machinery to move large sections of a collapsed school, with no more signs of life from beneath the rubble and nearly 60 teenage students still unaccounted for three days after

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population. As opponents, separated by uniformed police and bodyguards, accuse him of racism, Kamiya shouts back, saying he is only talking common

By TAMMY WEBBER and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press Jane Goodall was a pioneer, a tireless advocate and a deeply compassionate conservationist who inspired others to care about primates — and all animals — during a long life well lived, according to tributes from around the world. Former President Joe Biden, who awarded her the Presidential

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives. “This is a historic

By RIO YAMAT AP Airlines and Travel Writer If a U.S. government shutdown goes on long enough, it could throw a wrench in travel plans, potentially leading to longer airport wait times, flight delays and even cancellations. The shutdown began Wednesday after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to reach a deal to continue funding

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been eight years since Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting and said he wanted to “explore the world in a different way.” But the big-screen absence of the actor many would peg as the greatest one alive ends with “Anemone,” a new film

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military has begun drawing down its mission in Iraq under an agreement signed with the Iraqi government last year, eventually reducing the number of American troops in the country focused on countering the Islamic State group by about 20%, officials said. Washington

By DAVID CRARY Associated Press An appeals court in Qatar has overturned the conviction of Remy Rowhani, leader of the country’s small Baha’i community, according to an international Baha’i organization monitoring the case. Rowhani, 71, had been sentenced to a five-year prison term in August after his conviction on charges related to social media posts.

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration sanctions announced Wednesday target dozens of companies and individuals involved in Iran’s missile and military aircraft production, a new punishment intended to support recently reimposed U.N. penalties against Tehran over its nuclear program. The “snapback” U.N. measures freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals with

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order vowing to use all measures including U.S. military action to defend the energy-rich nation of Qatar — though it remains unclear just what weight the pledge will carry. The text of the order, available Wednesday

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Imelda lashed Bermuda as a Category 2 storm late Wednesday as officials locked up the tiny British territory. Heavy winds and rain that began pummeling the island on Wednesday afternoon were expected to continue through Thursday, with the eye of the storm forecast