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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics” and the United States and other allied countries are ready to further boost deterrence against Beijing’s aggression, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “The Salt Path” is a memoir of resilience and courage that captured the hearts of millions and was subsequently adapted for the big screen, with actors Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs taking the lead roles. But now, the book and the film are mired in a controversy

By MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI, ILLIA NOVIKOV and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is selling weapons to its NATO allies in Europe so they can provide them to Ukraine as it struggles to fend off a recent escalation in Russia’s drone and missile attacks, President Donald Trump and his chief

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut’s main aim is to reach a “state of no war” with its southern neighbor, the country’s president said Friday. President Joseph Aoun’s comments came as the Trump administration is trying to

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington this week netted President Donald Trump another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize he covets, but the ceasefire the U.S. leader sought for the war in Gaza didn’t emerge. Despite Trump throwing his weight behind

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Iran ‘s foreign minister says his country has detained a teenage French-German cyclist who disappeared last month for “an offense” that he didn’t detail, French newspaper Le Monde reported Friday. France’s prime minister also confirmed the arrest. The cyclist, Lennart Monterlos, “was detained for having committed an

By STELLA MARTANY and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament as part of a peace process.

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men — an atrocity that has been acknowledged as Europe’s only genocide after the Holocaust. Seven newly

By HANNA ARHIROVA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — By day, the Ukrainian capital hums with life — crowded metros, dog walkers and children on playgrounds. By night, Kyiv becomes a battleground as Russia unleashes relentless drone and missile attacks that chase much of the population underground for safety. The

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar that’s key to the U.S. military hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the Americans for secure communications, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show. Hours after the publication of this AP