By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's vice president held meetings with the U.S. vice president-elect and U.S. business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, as the two major powers tackle ongoing tensions over ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — After 15 months of collective grief and anxiety, three Israeli hostages left Hamas captivity and returned to Israel, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners walked free from Israeli jail, ...
BEIJING (AP) — China has executed two men who committed deadly attacks that killed dozens in November, raising concerns about a surge in what are called "revenge on society crimes," state media reported Monday. Fan Weiqu, 62, who rammed his car into a crowd outside a sports stadium in the ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Three hostages held by Hamas were released Sunday after 471 days in captivity as part of a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group. A gradual release of dozens of captives over the next several weeks has been agreed ...
By SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place on Sunday, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters and a significant endorsement of her rival for the Liberal Party leadership marred former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's campaign launch on Sunday for the job of Canada's next prime minister. It was Freeland's ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a "gesture of great hope" that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as part of a three-way dialogue with Washington ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hours after South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was formally arrested, triggering rioting by his supporters, his lawyers said Sunday that he remains defiant in his refusal to answer questions over the probe into his ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police arrested on Sunday a 30-year-old man in India's financial capital Mumbai whom they said was considered the prime suspect in the stabbing of Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan. The assault shocked the country's film industry and raised concerns over the lack of security in ...
By EILEEN NG Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Sunday for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc's new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar's drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China ...
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 200 Afghan nationals have been flown on to the United States after their special immigration visas were processed in the Philippines as part of an agreement between Manila and Washington, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's vice president held meetings with the U.S. vice president-elect and U.S. business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, as the two major powers tackle ongoing tensions over ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies from an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of ...
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's conservative government on Wednesday nominated Parliament Speaker Constantine Tassoulas, a leading advocate for the return of disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum, to become the ...
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in the last corruption case against her, paving the way for her to run in elections that an interim government says will be held either in December ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained on Wednesday after a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound that ended a weeks-long stand-off between his bodyguards and the country's anti-corruption ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, with more than 100 of them believed to have ...
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam and Russia inked Tuesday an agreement to boost cooperation on nuclear energy during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's two-day visit to Hanoi. The Southeast Asian country has been trying to revive its nuclear ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday, in the first of a series of major baths in the Maha Kumbh festival, the ...
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's new president has asked prominent diplomat and jurist Nawaf Salam to form the country's new government after Salam was named prime minister by a large number of legislators Monday. The move apparently angered the Hezbollah group and ...