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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government employs a sizable staff of 150 Venezuelans and spends upward of $6.7 million annually for upkeep of the shuttered American embassy and other diplomatic properties in Caracas, despite having broken relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in 2019, according to a new watchdog report.

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press Some West Africans who were deported from the U.S. to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a flight during which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of

By AREF TUFAHA, JALAL BWAITEL and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — As Israeli strikes in far-off Qatar and Yemen sparked regional tensions this week, violence surged in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. A shooting attack at a Jerusalem bus stop killed six Israelis, and another two were stabbed and

By JAMEY KEATEN and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press Dozens of angry European lawmakers banged their hands on their desks after being denied a moment of silence to honor Charlie Kirk. Backers of the American conservative activist rallied at U.S. embassies in Europe and Africa. And supportive world leaders chimed in, lauding him as a friend

By CLAUDIA CIOBANU Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO said Friday it’s bulking up its defensive posture on its eastern flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine with new equipment to deter potential Russian aggression following an incursion by Russian drones into Polish territory. The alliance’s supreme commander in Europe said a new operation, dubbed

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Qatar’s prime minister Friday ahead of a visit to Israel this weekend, showing how the Trump administration is trying to balance relations between key Middle East allies days after Israel targeted Hamas leaders in a strike on Doha. Despite tensions

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO has focused on trying to deter an attack on its own territory and avoid all-out war with nuclear armed Russia. Now the time has come for NATO to defend itself, and European allies might

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates summoned Israel’s envoy in the country on Friday to condemn Israel’s attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar, increasing pressure on the country as Qatar’s top diplomat visits Washington. The meeting Friday saw Emirati Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem bint Ebrahim al-Hashimy “denounce the

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — After a lifetime of spurning would-be business suitors, the late Italian designer Giorgio Armani instructed his heirs to sell an initial 15% minority stake in his vast fashion empire, with priority to the French conglomerate LVMH, the eyewear giant Essilor-Luxottica or the cosmetics company L’Oreal. Armani gave

By The Associated Press Russia and Belarus on Friday launched a long-planned joint military exercise involving thousands of troops that has raised concern in the West. The exercises, dubbed “Zapad 2025,” or “West 2025,” are held in Belarus and Russia and will last through Tuesday. They are intended to showcase close defense ties between Moscow

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — More than 300 South Korean workers detained during an immigration raid in the United States returned home on a charter plane on Friday to be reunited with their loved ones. They were among the 475 people detained during the Sept. 4 immigration

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry has arrived in Ukraine for a surprise visit in support of wounded service members. Harry’s representatives confirmed they were in the capital, Kyiv, on Friday, though they declined to discuss the prince’s schedule for security reasons. This is the second time Harry has visited

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — As Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists for its invasion of Gaza City, a growing number of soldiers — and their mothers — are saying no. There are no official figures, but newly formed groups are broadcasting their refusal to serve despite the

By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volleyball, basketball, ping pong, dancing rehearsals or simple chats. Dozens of teens are rediscovering how to reconnect to the real world after a school in Santiago, Chile, implemented a pioneering program in the country that blocks cell phones signals. Now, instead of compulsively scrolling through their

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A regulator has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia infections, which are causing infertility and death in the iconic native species that is listed as endangered in parts of Australia. The single-dose vaccine was developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast in

By DIDI TANG and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to revitalize American manufacturing by luring foreign investment into the U.S. has run smack into one of his other priorities: cracking down on illegal immigration. Hardly a week after immigration authorities raided a sprawling Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detained

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. Bolsonaro, who has always denied

By EMMA BURROWS European Security Correspondent TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For more than three years, Ukraine has waged an almost nightly battle against Russian attack drones. NATO on Wednesday got a taste of that fight. Polish authorities said they detected 19 violations of their airspace, prompting a million-dollar response as fighter jets were scrambled and

By YURAS KARMANAU and LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus freed 52 political prisoners on Thursday as part of a deal brokered by the United States, which lifted some sanctions on the country’s national airline. It was another sign of a possible rapprochement between Washington and Minsk, a close ally of Russia

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Israeli airstrikes in Yemen that killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 130 others also caused damaged to Yemen’s national museum and other historical sites in its capital city, the Houthi Ministry of Culture said Thursday. The status of the artifacts inside the museum is still unclear but

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired the country’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Just days before the arrival of President Donald Trump to the U.K. on his second state visit, Starmer dismissed the

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, EDITH M. LEDERER AND JON GAMBRELL Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Qatar’s prime minister accused Israel of ignoring the hostages in the Gaza Strip when it attacked Hamas leaders in Doha, but he vowed Thursday not to abandon efforts to end the nearly two-year war. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Families clustered outside hospitals awaiting word of their loved ones Thursday after the crash and explosion of a tanker truck a day earlier on a Mexico City highway that killed at least eight people and injured 90. The fire engulfed more than two

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president said Thursday that Korean companies will likely hesitate to make further investments in the United States unless Washington improves its visa system for their employees, as U.S. authorities released hundreds of workers who were detained at a Georgia factory

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days. She became one of the most prominent female intellectuals in Orthodoxy — widely respected within the highly patriarchal religion where all clergy and bishops are male. Then Russia