BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials involved in this month’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean that the White House has said were transporting drugs. Petro repudiated the three attacks in his speech at the annual meeting […]
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner won a decade-long court battle on Tuesday against being extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges in a bribery scandal involving soccer’s world governing body. Trinidad and Tobago ’s high court permanently stayed extradition proceedings against Warner, who faces racketeering and bribery charges in […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal immigration agents have arrested Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s most powerful businessmen and the latest elite figure from the troubled Caribbean country to be detained on U.S. soil. Vorbe was in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, according to online records. He was being held […]
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the U.N. General Assembly, he proved it. Blocked on Monday night by police officers when he sought to cross a New York street — they told the […]
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Eleven West African nationals deported by the U.S. to Ghana were sent to their home countries over the weekend despite safety concerns, their lawyer told a court in Ghana on Tuesday. The U.S. had deported a total of 14 West African immigrants to Ghana under controversial circumstances. Although Ghanaian authorities earlier […]
BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China are talking past each other on key issues, said a U.S. lawmaker leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to Beijing on Tuesday. The visit, led by Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, is the first from the House of Representatives to China since […]
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday in the absence of key market-driving news in the region, after a seemingly relentless rally continued on Wall Street. Tokyo trading was closed for a national holiday. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.6% to 8,861.10. South Korea’s Kospi added 0.3% to 3,479.23. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped […]
COLUMBUS, Georgia (AP) — A suspected gunman has been killed at an Amazon facility in the west Georgia city of Columbus, according to authorities. The shooting happened early Monday morning at the Amazon facility on the city’s east side. No other deaths have been reported, and no other details were immediately released. Columbus police said […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Moscow will adhere to nuclear arms limits for one more year after a nuclear pact with the United States expires in February. The New START treaty is the last remaining arms control agreement between Russia and the U.S. Speaking at a meeting with members of […]
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert monitoring human rights in Russia said Monday that “repression is escalating,” targeting civilians, journalists and even Ukrainian prisoners of war in an attempt to silence dissent and opposition to the war in Ukraine. Mariana Katzarova, the U.N. special rapporteur focusing on human rights in Russia, presented her latest report […]
BEIJING (AP) — The United States wants to improve military-to-military ties with China, a U.S. lawmaker leading a bipartisan congressional delegation said Monday in a meeting with China’s defense minister in Beijing. The visit is the first from the House of Representatives to China since 2019, and comes as tensions have risen between the two […]
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares traded mostly higher Monday, cheered by a record finish last week on Wall Street. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.5% in morning trading to 45,729.33, rebounding from the decline late last week over concerns about the Bank of Japan’s selling its holdings. Such concerns abated as markets began to see […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in New York on Sunday to take part in the U.N. General Assembly, the first president of Syria to do so in nearly six decades. The last time a Syrian head of state attended the General Assembly was in 1967. That was before the 50-year rule […]
BANGKOK (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers pushed for more military-to-military dialogue in a meeting Sunday with China’s Premier Li Qiang, a rare congressional visit since the U.S.-China relations soured. The last trip by a group of senators was in 2023, and Sunday’s delegation was the first from the House of Representatives to […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — The United States government issued a visa for a Brazilian official to attend the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York with mobility restrictions within the country, prompting a protest from the South American nation to the international body, two senior Brazilian officials told The Associated Press on Friday. The complaint […]
PARIA PENINSULA, Venezuela (AP) — Impoverished fishing communities on Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula live on an idyllic stretch of Caribbean coast. Venezuela’s economy collapsed a decade ago, and the local fishing industry, which once offered jobs with living wages, has declined. Some fishing boats have been repurposed to smuggle migrants and traffic humans, wildlife and fuel. […]
GÜIRIA, Venezuela (AP) — On Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula, an idyllic stretch of Caribbean coast, it is an open secret that boats departing from its ports transport both drugs and fish. Residents claim not to know who owns the illegal cargo, but they can tell when business is doing well because people eat out, get their […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African trade officials have held talks with their U.S. counterparts in Washington, reports said Friday as Africa’s largest economy looks to repair strained relations and negotiate the lifting of heavy tariffs imposed by the United States. South Africa’s department of trade, industry and competition said the country’s Trade Minister Parks Tau […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban released on Friday a British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges, an official said, likely part of a wider effort to get their government recognized internationally years after taking power. The case of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, aged 80 and 75, […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s defense minister says his nation’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed under the countries’ new defense pact, marking the first specific acknowledgment that Islamabad had put the kingdom under its nuclear umbrella. Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif’s comments underline the importance of the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Asian shares mostly retreated Friday after a rally of technology stocks led by Nvidia and Intel pushed Wall Street to more records. Japan’s Nikkei 225 switched from gains to losses and was down nearly 1.4% to 44,667.88 as of early afternoon, after the Bank of Japan decided to keep its benchmark […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Russia and Vietnam have developed a back-door method of concealing arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using the profits from joint oil and gas ventures to pay off defense contracts without any open transfers of cash through the global banking system, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances, who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday alleging their firings were illegal. The lawsuit was filed against Trump; Sergio Gor, director of the White House […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned members of a Sinaloa cartel faction known as Los Mayos, one of the groups that has tormented Sinaloa’s capital in an ongoing war for control. The move came on the same day that U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence […]
