By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defense industry, which the government is flooding with money in hopes that a surge of homemade weapons and ...
By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Fresh turmoil involving a transitional presidential council that will be responsible for choosing Haiti's new leader triggered a flurry of meetings with Caribbean leaders and officials from the U.S., Canada and France, officials ...
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press
BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam (AP) — Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him.
He first planted coffee in a patch of land outside Buon Ma Thuot city in Vietnam's Central Highland ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council on Monday issued its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the U.S. angering Israel by abstaining from the vote. Israel responded by canceling a visit to Washington by a high-level ...
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren rescued after more than two weeks in captivity arrived Monday in their home state in northwestern Nigeria ahead of their anticipated reunions with families, following the latest in a series of ...
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape ...
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Flames were still leaping from the Moscow concert hall besieged by gunmen when Russian officials began suggesting who was really to blame. They presented no evidence, only aspersions and suspicion and counterfactual speculation, but in ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South African prosecutors said Monday they intend to charge the parliamentary speaker with corruption, alleging that she took $135,000 and a wig in bribes over a three-year period while she was defense minister.
Speaker ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim on Monday, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations were muted by the Israel-Hamas war.
Although many cities across Israel decided to cancel their Purim ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in northeastern Kenya killed four people, including three officers, and wounded several others on Monday, authorities said.
The blast in the town of Mandera, which is on the border with Somalia, was caused by ...