KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo on Tuesday convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and other charges and sentenced him to death. Kabila, who has been on trial in absentia since July and whose whereabouts are unknown, was accused of treason, involvement in an ...
PARIS (AP) — The South African ambassador to France, Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, known as Nathi Mthethwa, was found dead on Tuesday morning at the foot of a luxury hotel tower in western Paris, a French prosecutor said. The 58-year-old ambassador had been reported missing on Monday ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have finally outmaneuvered Hamas. After facing months of genocide accusations, pariah status and global pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Netanyahu has agreed on a ceasefire plan with U.S. ...
By SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli forces killed at least 31 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local hospitals said, as questions churned about U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza. Hamas ...
By NIRANJAN SHRESTHA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Trishna Shakya, 11, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace. As she rides a chariot bedecked in garlands of brilliant orange marigolds, a crowd of devotees lifts their ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan's outgoing prime minister and his South Korean counterpart underscored the need to strengthen cooperation between their nations, as U.S. President Donald Trump's transactional approach to allies and trade ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan urged the Taliban on Tuesday to restore internet and telecommunications access across the country, saying the blackout imposed by the government in Kabul has left the nation almost entirely cut off from the outside world. The outage, ...
By SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his support behind the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, the question now is whether Hamas will agree. Hamas faces a bitter tradeoff — the proposal demands that the militant group ...
By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's foreign minister has "renounced" her U.S. visa to protest a decision by the U.S. State Department to revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Colombian government said Monday. The ...
By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovans gave the country's pro-Western governing party a clear parliamentary majority in a weekend election, defeating pro-Russian groups in a vote widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West. European leaders Monday ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won't give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous international demands to do so, calling them crucial to keeping a "balance of ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Regardless of political perspective, no one could argue that the presidency of Donald Trump — and his second term so far in particular — has been anything less than consequential, not only for the United States but for the ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program were reimposed Sunday, putting Tehran under new pressure as tensions remain high in the wider Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. At the U.N. General ...
By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — On the eve of meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is working on a new ceasefire plan with the White House, but details are ...
By OPE ADETAYO Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They had a lot to say about global affairs. But complicated things happening closer to home? Not so much. Like their counterparts from other continents, African leaders took to the United Nations podium over the past week to address ...
By JON GAMBRELL and AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need to ...
Associated Press undefined CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guineans will hold a presidential election on Dec. 28, its first since the country's leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya took power in a 2021 coup, according to a presidential decree read on state television. The announcement was made on ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of North Korea and China agreed to deepen bilateral ties and resist hegemonism, a likely reference to their pushbacks against the United States. Their meeting in Beijing on Sunday came about three weeks ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ, ADAM GELLER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza, ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The ...