By HUIZHONG WU and RAJESH ROY Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The Chinese government said Friday that the Trump administration's move to ban international students from Harvard would harm America's international standing, as anxious students and parents overseas fretted over what would ...

By GERALD IMRAY and MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's top law enforcement official said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and he "twisted" ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's government on Thursday unveiled an ambitious scheme to bring billions of undeclared U.S. dollars tucked under mattresses or stashed in foreign bank accounts back into the crisis-prone country, as libertarian ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — As Venezuelans head to a Sunday election, they are again being used as political pawns. Opposition factions are urging abstention while the ruling party aims to tighten its grip on power — all while both sides appeal to the ...

BERLIN (AP) — An assailant stabbed people at the central railway station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday, injuring 12 people — six of them critically, authorities said. The person attacked people with a knife on the platform between tracks 13 and 14 in the station, according to ...

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A group tasked with making a plan to remove weapons held by Palestinian factions in Lebanon's refugees camps met for the first time Friday to begin hashing out a timetable and mechanism for disarming the groups. The Lebanese-Palestinian ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador's Congress as a censorship tool designed to silence and criminalize dissent in the Central American nation by targeting nongovernmental organizations that ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is seeking to arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer, as it denied the warship suffered major damage — a claim quickly met with outside skepticism. A ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Prosecutors in Turkey issued arrest warrants for 63 active-duty military personnel Friday over links to a group accused of attempting a coup in 2016. Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said the suspects included four colonels and came from the army, navy, air force and ...

By THOMAS ADAMSON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A senior Israeli diplomat on Thursday defended his country's military after soldiers fired warning shots near a delegation of European diplomats visiting the occupied West Bank, an incident France condemned as ...

By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area in the Amazon — marking a major breakthrough for Indigenous land claims. The decision affirms ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Florida court awarded the Mexican government a massive civil judgment Thursday against its former security chief who is now serving a lengthy prison sentence in the United States for taking bribes from drug traffickers. Judge Lisa Walsh ordered Genaro García Luna to pay ...

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Organization of American States came under pressure Thursday to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and ...

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The European Union's top foreign policy official said Thursday that membership candidate Serbia faces a "strategic choice" of direction, just weeks after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic defied EU warnings and attended Russia's ...

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try to resolve the issue of Islamic State group prisoners held in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published Thursday. The Kurdish-led ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take "special measures" to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the ...

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has multiple major sites associated with its rapidly advancing nuclear program, now the subject of several rounds of negotiations with the United States. The sites across the country, including one in the heart of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California. Pham, 58, is currently an auxiliary bishop in the diocese. He fills the vacancy created when Pope ...

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, after overcoming last-minute legal hurdles Thursday. The deal will transfer ...