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 ...

By TOQA EZZIDIN, SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel said Hamas handed over "two coffins of deceased hostages " from Gaza late Saturday, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu increased pressure on the militant group to share the rest more quickly under their ...

By GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar's new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him fleeing from the country into ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas moved Friday to shore up its brittle ceasefire agreement with Israel by reaffirming its commitment to the terms of the deal, including a pledge to hand over the remains of all dead Israeli hostages. The militant ...

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of the son of Libya's late leader Moammar Gadhafi on condition that he pay $11 million bail. Hannibal Gadhafi has been imprisoned in Lebanon for a decade without being charged. The expected ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday rejected a final appeal by Russia against a $50 billion arbitration award to former shareholders of Russian oil giant Yukos, who claimed Moscow deliberately bankrupted the company more than 20 ...

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday celebrated his country's status as the host of upcoming talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin, a meeting where the two leaders are expected ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The factory floor used to roar. Walking around his textile mill in southern Buenos Aires, Luciano Galfione pointed out the up-to-the-minute machines that once whirred and clattered as 200 employees churned out fabric to be ...

By OPE ADETAYO Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been trying to rally fellow evangelical Christians and urge Congress to designate Nigeria as a violator of religious freedom with unfounded claims of "Christian mass murder," which the government of the West ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli airstrike targeting the top leaders of Yemen's Houthi rebels in August killed the chief of staff of its military, officials said Thursday, further escalating tensions between the group and Israel even as a ...

By SIDDIQULLAH ALIZAI and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban government said Thursday that Pakistan had carried out two drone strikes on Kabul the previous day, just before the two neighbors announced a ceasefire following days of fighting that ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — The United Nations chief on Thursday condemned the military takeover in Madagascar as an army colonel who led the coup was set to be quickly sworn in as president just three days after announcing soldiers had taken charge. U.N. Secretary-General António ...

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The European Union's cooperation on migration with the fractured North African nation of Libya is in the spotlight again after human rights lawyers filed the names of some 120 European leaders - including French President Emmanuel ...

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country's northeast have agreed in principle on a plan to merge the U.S.-backed force as a cohesive group into the national army, Syria's main Kurdish commander said ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — China poses a daily threat to Britain's security, the head of the country's domestic intelligence agency said Thursday, remarks that step up pressure on authorities to explain why the prosecution of two men charged with spying for Beijing ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli airstrike targeting top leaders in Yemen's Houthi rebels in August killed the chief of staff of its military, officials said Thursday, further escalating the tensions between the group and Israel even as a ...

By JOHN LEICESTER and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two votes of no-confidence Thursday that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos. The National Assembly votes clear ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — The military has seized power in a coup in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar and ousted President Andry Rajoelina, who has fled the country. Here's a timeline of major events leading up to the takeover in the former French colony off Africa's east ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay's senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia on Wednesday, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives. It makes Uruguay the first country in predominantly ...

By SAM METZ, SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel received the remains of two more hostages Wednesday, hours after the Israeli military said that one of the bodies previously turned over was not that of a hostage. The confusion added to tensions over the ...