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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — European officials told Iran on Wednesday it had yet to take the actions needed to stop the return of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program, warning time was running out. The comments from the German Foreign Ministry and the European Union came after

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday that governments around the world, especially in the Global North, which includes the United States and countries in Europe, are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum-seekers — even threatening its very existence. The stark warning by UNHCR came on the 75th

President Donald Trump relished the glow of a British royal spectacle Wednesday, greeted at Windsor Castle on his state visit by King Charles III, military honor guards and mounted troops before paying a private tribute at Queen Elizabeth II’s tomb. No. No U.S. president, or any other world leader, has ever had the honor of

LONDON (AP) — A British judge temporarily blocked the government from sending an asylum-seeker who crossed the English Channel back to France, delaying the first deportation under an agreement between London and Paris. The 25-year-old Eritrean man was due to leave Britain on Wednesday on a commercial flight. But after his lawyers appealed, High Court

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war. Chinese and pro-Iranian groups also spread disinformation about the shooting, with those loyal to Iran’s interests backing

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leader of the Unification Church was questioned by investigators on Wednesday over allegations that the church bribed the wife of South Korea’s jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him in an effort to secure business favors. Hak Ja

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday was unable to clinch an ambitious defense treaty with Papua New Guinea during a visit to the country, a week after he failed to land a security pact with another South Pacific island neighbor, Vanuatu, aimed at curbing China’s

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Claudia Sheinbaum became the first female leader to preside over Mexico’s independence celebrations in 215 years, with a message that she won’t accept foreign intervention, a significant statement as she negotiates pressure from the United States. Sheinbaum led a traditional ceremony from the balcony of the National Palace in Mexico

By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or have gone missing around the world in 2024, with more than 80% of those cases in Latin America, according to a report released Wednesday by watchdog group Global Witness. The London-based organization said the region once

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president Gustavo Petro on Tuesday lashed out at the U.S. government after it added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in three decades. In a message on his X account, the leftist leader accused

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Not a single named storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean in nearly three weeks, even though it’s the peak of hurricane season. “Where the heck are the Atlantic #hurricanes?” Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, wrote recently on X. Many are

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nine hours of frantic negotiation with the Israeli military. A last-minute scramble to find trucks in a devastated Gaza Strip, where fuel is in short supply. Six hours of frantic packing, carefully stacking cardboard boxes on open flatbed trucks. With an Israeli airstrike looming, aid workers carried

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As U.S. President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure on the International Criminal Court, staff responsible for investigating the world’s worst crimes are finding ways to work around U.S. sanctions of the kind more usually imposed on officials from autocratic regimes and members of extremist organizations.

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of Iranian financiers and more than a dozen people and firms across Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates were sanctioned Tuesday for allegedly coordinating $100 million worth of cryptocurrency transfers from the sale of Iranian oil for the benefit of Iran’s government and military.

MADRID (AP) — Spain said Tuesday that summer 2025 was the hottest on record for the southern European nation, which like the entire Mediterranean region is being hard hit by climate change. Its national weather service said that the country had an average temperature of 24.2 C (75.5 F) between June 1 and Aug. 31.

By AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED Associated Press ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Israel on Tuesday launched airstrikes on the Yemeni city of Hodeida as Iranian-backed Houthi rebels activated air defenses. The Israeli military said in an update that it struck “military infrastructure” used by the Houthis at Hodeida port. “The Hudaydah Port is used by

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Divers have recovered artifacts from the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic, for the first time since the ocean liner sank in the Aegean Sea more than a century ago after striking a mine during World War I. The Culture Ministry in Greece said Monday that an 11-member deep-sea diving team conducted

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and act to punish those responsible for it. The deeply documented

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces bombarded the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with rockets overnight, wounding 20 people, including four children, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday as he urged European leaders to make the continent safe by building an ambitious air defense umbrella. With the war grinding on since

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the world’s neediest people are suffering from serious food shortages, and will face further reductions in assistance soon, a United Nations official said Tuesday. Carl Skau, deputy executive

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, CHINEDU ASADU and EDWARD ACQUAH Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The group of 14 African immigrants deported to Ghana by the U.S. have been returned to their home countries, Ghanaian authorities reiterated on Tuesday, pushing back on claims from lawyers for the deportees who say they are still held in the

By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawians cast their votes Tuesday in elections to choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives at a time of economic turmoil in one of the world’s least-developed countries. Voters face a choice between giving President Lazarus Chakwera, 70, a second term in office or selecting

By The Associated Press Palestinian residents reported heavy strikes across Gaza City on Tuesday and Israel’s defense minister said “Gaza is burning” as a new Israeli ground offensive targeted the city. Israel had been pounding the city with airstrikes in the lead-up to the operation. At least 69 Palestinians have been killed in the latest

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Naika and Erica Lafleur stared at a pile of rubble where their house once stood in Haiti’s capital and began to cry. Their mother had instructed the two sisters, ages 10 and 13, to visit the home they fled last year and report