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Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump's comments on canal

Jan. 21, 2025 22:19 PM EST

PANAMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.S. military intervention. “American ships are being...

Turkey's imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader says he is willing to work with authorities for peace

Dec. 29, 2024 10:47 AM EST

ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has said that he is willing to contribute to peace between Turks and Kurds, in a statement issued by the pro-Kurdish DEM party Sunday. “I possess the necessary...

Kosovo's ethnic Serb party says its ban from a parliamentary election is 'political violence'

Dec. 24, 2024 13:03 PM EST

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s main ethnic Serb party on Tuesday said its ban from the upcoming general election is “institutional and political violence” against the ethnic minority. Zlatan Elek of Srpska Lista, or Serb List, said the move was “done on the orders of...

Taiwan lawmakers clash after one party breaks into legislature to occupy speaker's chair

Dec. 20, 2024 13:43 PM EST

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lawmakers clashed in Taiwan's legislature Friday when members of the president's political party who had broken into the building overnight to occupy the speaker's chair tussled with members of another major party who forced their way in to evict them. Some...