By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing bloc further to the ...
By SYLVIE CORBET and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya — a historic moment ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war is expected to cost about $216 billion, the World Bank said in an assessment published Tuesday. The cost is almost ten times Syria's 2024 gross domestic product. Syria's civil war began in 2011 when mass protests ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday to shore up the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that has teetered over the past few days following a burst of deadly violence and questions over how ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Share prices have soared recently in Tokyo on hopes that conservative Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be Japan's first female prime minister, will double down on market friendly policies, including hefty spending ...
By ISABEL DEBRE and PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, injected a sharp note of realism into his plans to tackle an economic crisis Monday, a day after his surprise electoral victory signaled the end ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The small Central American nation of Belize has signed a "safe third country" agreement with the United States, the two sides said on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up deportations and dissuade migration north. What ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — He won't call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew's critics. Buckingham Palace and the British government were under pressure Monday to formally strip Prince Andrew of his princely title and sumptuous home ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's government approved on Monday exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River. The decision comes only weeks before the United Nations climate conference in Belem, COP30, where efforts ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister, after her governing party secured a crucial coalition partner. Takaichi, 64, is set to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tuesday's parliamentary vote. If she's ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq 's prime minister said Monday that a small contingent of U.S. military advisers will remain in the country for now to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria combating the Islamic State group. Washington and Baghdad ...
By ISABEL DEBRE and PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, will be Bolivia's next president, preliminary results showed on Monday, paving the way for a major political transformation after almost 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward ...
By CHRISTOPHER MEGERIAN Associated Press ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers. "We would buy some beef from Argentina," he told reporters aboard Air ...
By CHAN HO-HIM AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — One of China's most important meetings begins Monday, as leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather to map the goals for the next five years. The closed-door gathering — known as the fourth plenum — is expected ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza's fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas militants had killed two soldiers, and an Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into ...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out cyberattacks on its national time center, saying any damage to related facilities could have disrupted network communications, financial systems and power supply. The Ministry of State Security alleged ...
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire. The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, came into effect immediately and is intended to pause ...
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees Sunday, a day after they raided another U.N. facility in the capital Sanaa, a U.N. official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the U.N. resident coordinator for Yemen, told The ...
PARIS (AP) — Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning. The daring heist at the world's most visited museum occurred as tourists were inside the Galerie d'Apollon, ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan 's main opposition Nationalist Party chose a former lawmaker as its new chairperson on Saturday in a competitive election clouded by allegations of China's meddling. By a wide margin, Cheng Li-wun — the only female candidate in the race who positioned herself ...