CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced a major Cabinet shake-up Wednesday with the appointment of a new defense minister to replace Gen. Vladimir Padrino López, who had been a cornerstone of the military's long-standing support for former ...
By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting, two days after Kabul blamed Islamabad for a deadly airstrike in the Afghan capital that it said killed hundreds of ...
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A new trade pact between Indonesia and the United States has recast their economic ties, binding Jakarta's resource wealth and energy future more closely to Washington's strategic needs. Indonesia agreed to ...
By JON GAMBRELL and MAE ANDERSON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Strait of Hormuz is a small strip of water connecting the Persian Gulf to the world's oceans, and it has become a big problem for the global economy. On a typical day, ships carrying about a fifth of ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Rwanda told a panel of international arbitrators Wednesday that Britain still owes it 100 million pounds ($134 million) under a contentious refugee resettlement deal that Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped immediately after ...
By JOHN LEICESTER and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — We've long had your back, now it's our turn. That is how the famously transactional U.S. President Donald Trump is framing his demands that allies help him with the Iran war. He wants to call in IOUs for decades of U.S. ...
