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US and Japan seek UN resolution calling on all nations to ban nuclear weapons in outer space

Mar. 18, 2024 21:31 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador announced Monday. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a U.N. Security Council meeting that...

Commenting on Navalny's death for first time, Putin says he supported prisoner swap for his foe

Mar. 18, 2024 16:41 PM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin said early Monday that he supported an idea to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the man who was his biggest foe died. In his first comments to address Navalny's death, Putin said of the dissident's...

Bulgaria's foreign minister to form the next government in power-sharing deal

Mar. 18, 2024 09:35 AM EDT

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday tapped the largest group in parliament, the center-right GERB-UDF coalition, to form the country’s new government. Radev handed the mandate to Maria Gabriel, the prime minister-designate under a...

Pakistani jets target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan, killing 8 people

Mar. 18, 2024 08:58 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan early on Monday, the foreign ministry said. The Afghan Taliban said the attacks killed at least eight people and prompted return fire from their forces. ...

Colombia suspends ceasefire with faction of ex-FARC rebels following attack on Indigenous community

Mar. 17, 2024 23:27 PM EDT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday suspended a ceasefire with one of a handful of armed groups with which he hoped to negotiate peace accords, saying its fighters violated the truce by attacking an Indigenous community. The government said that...

Cease-fire talks with Israel and Hamas are expected to resume on Sunday in Qatar

Mar. 16, 2024 15:54 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war are expected to resume in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday, according to Egyptian officials. The talks would mark the first time both Israeli officials and Hamas leaders join the indirect...

The Latest | Israel denies Palestinian claim its forces killed 20 near Gaza aid distribution center

Mar. 15, 2024 13:31 PM EDT

The Palestinian Health Ministry accused Israeli forces of launching an attack near an aid distribution point in war-wracked northern Gaza, killing 20 people and wounding 155. The Israeli military said Friday that Palestinian gunmen opened fire in that attack and that none of its forces fired toward...

Proposed US resolution would back global efforts for an immediate and sustained cease-fire in Gaza

Mar. 15, 2024 01:22 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States circulated the final draft of a United Nations Security Council resolution late Thursday that would support international efforts to establish “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war as part of a deal to release hostages taken...

Takeaways into AP investigation into Russian system to force its passports on occupied Ukraine

Mar. 15, 2024 01:16 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship ahead of elections Vladimir Putin has made certain he will win, an...

The Latest | Egypt appeals for more aid deliveries by land to Gaza as Israel warns of Rafah push

Mar. 15, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

Egypt’s top diplomat made an emotional appeal Thursday for an urgent increase in humanitarian aid going into Gaza by land, even as an aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. ...