By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A plan for how Vietnam will spend $15.5 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been finalized and will be announced at the COP28 climate conference, which begins in Dubai next week. Mark George, the climate counselor for the ...
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed a cease-fire in Gaza that's expected to enable the release of dozens of hostages taken by Hamas, and urged leaders of the top rich and developing nations to work together to ensure ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A temporary cease-fire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas' raid on Israel is expected bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families ...
By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico's northern state of Sonora acknowledged Tuesday that a secrecy-shrouded train project was an army undertaking that has not yet submitted any environmental impact statement, months after construction had already ...
By GAURAV SAINI and SIBI ARASU, Press Trust of India undefined NEW DELHI (AP) — Sunil Kumar watched helplessly in July as his home and 14 others were washed away by intense monsoon rains lashing the Indian Himalayas. "All my life's work vanished in an instant. Starting over feels ...
By DAVID BILLER and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As soon as Leandro Francisco Diana woke up Tuesday, he reached for his phone like many Argentines on the first business day after the election victory of President-elect Javier Milei. "I opened my eyes, got ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes and acts "tantamount to genocide" in Gaza during a virtual meeting Tuesday of leaders of developing countries, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Transgender women will not be allowed to compete in international women's cricket, the sport's governing body said Tuesday. The International Cricket Council said the "new gender eligibility regulation," which was approved by board members, had been imposed ...
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel could end because of limited funding, the United Nations food agency warned Tuesday. Most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and ...
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Tatyana Prima thought she'd left the bombs behind when she fled Ukraine more than a year and a half ago, after Russia decimated her city, Mariupol. The 38-year-old escaped with her injured husband and young daughter, bringing the ...
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Tuesday raided the homes of 17 people in the state of Bavaria accused of spreading antisemitic hate speech and threats targeting Jews online. According to the Bavarian criminal police, the suspects were 15 men and ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An eruption of Papua New Guinea's tallest volcano that raised regional tsunami fears subsided Tuesday, but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby. One of the South Pacific nation's most active ...
By MARTHA IRVINE and DAR YASIN Associated Press SAMTSE, Bhutan (AP) — Monsoon rains have finally passed and floods blocking the lone dirt road have retreated enough for a small truck to climb these Himalayan foothills to a gurgling spring. It spews water so fresh that people here call it ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — It happens every November, when the cold descends on Kyiv. The change in weather always makes Dmytro Riznychenko think back, and he is overwhelmed by his emotions. "This is where it truly began," Riznychenko said, walking through ...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Three weeks ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza's Shifa Hospital – showing a series of underground installations that it said was part of an elaborate Hamas command and control center under the territory's ...
By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's right-wing president-elect gave the first indications Monday of how he plans to start shaking up South America's second-largest economy: with a slew of privatizations. Populist Javier Milei, a ...
BERLIN (AP) — The German government pledged Monday to invest 4 billion euros ($4.37 billion) in African green energy projects until 2030, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying that countries in Africa should benefit more from their wealth of raw materials. Scholz discussed the pledge at a news ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants' deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank. Overnight, the territory was closed off. ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe. The virulent bacterial disease is killing the young and the old in ...
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China's top diplomat welcomed four Arab foreign ministers and the Indonesian one to Beijing on Monday, saying his country would work with "our brothers and sisters" in the Arab and Islamic world to try to end the war in Gaza as soon as ...