By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A U.S. official focusing on arms control on Monday provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago and urged countries to press China and Russia to do more on nuclear ...
By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's largest remaining rebel group declared a unilateral ceasefire Monday ahead of next month's high-stakes congressional elections, which have already been marred by acts of violence against candidates in rural areas. The ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court told judges on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte encouraged death squads to carry out extrajudicial killings using fear and financial rewards. The court in ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top diplomats met Monday in Brussels with the director of the Board of Peace after a shaky and controversial embrace of U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to secure and rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Nikolay ...
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army killed the country's most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States' most wanted fugitives, notching a major victory while cartel members responded with a wave of violence across the country. The killing Sunday ...
By HOGIR AL ABDO, GHAITH ALSAYED and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — U.S. forces are withdrawing from a key base in northeastern Syria, officials said Monday, in what appears to be part of a larger drawdown of U.S. forces in Syria. Iraqi and Syrian security ...
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Rob Jetten has become the youngest and first openly gay prime minister of the Netherlands. Before Jetten, 38, took the oath of office on Monday to lead a minority three-party ruling coalition, Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers ...
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court Monday dismissed all appeals in the city's biggest case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law, upholding the convictions and sentences of pro-democracy activists. Those who appealed were among 47 activists ...
By MUNIR AHMED and ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan's military killed at least 70 militants in strikes along the border with Afghanistan early Sunday, targeting what it described as hideouts of Pakistani militants it blamed for recent attacks inside ...