1+ week, 6+ day ago   (730+ words) ABUJA, Nigeria — Niger’s junta survived its most severe internal threat since seizing power in a 2023 coup when renegade soldiers staged a mutiny over the weekend, triggering a 24-hour standoff that ended with Russian intervention. The mostly young soldiers took some…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (791+ words) BANGKOK — The troubled USS Abraham Lincoln’s 5,000 sailors and Marines end more than 250 days at sea Wednesday at Thailand’s Pattaya, a notoriously raunchy town of beaches, pulsating bars, tourists and thousands of sex workers. U.S. and Thai officials have arranged…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (575+ words) KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day on Monday, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses, as Ukraine reels from attacks with jet-powered…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (604+ words) ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meeting with finance ministers of the world’s largest economies this week at a time when the United States has disrupted the international order with aggressive tariffs on major allies and an unpopular war on…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (825+ words) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the United States and Iran exchanged fire on the weekend, the first…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (295+ words) Google Maps has renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America days after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the change last week amid a U.S. trade war with Canada. Ontario Premier Doug Ford denounced the move Sunday on NBC’s “Meet…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (528+ words) BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — Guinea-Bissau is voting Sunday in a referendum to decide on granting new presidential powers ahead of December’s general election, which will return the West African nation to democracy after its latest coup. A military government seized power in…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (154+ words) BATAM, Indonesia — The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sailed past Singapore early on Sunday as it headed home after a grueling deployment in the Middle East. It’s expected to stop in Thailand for a port visit. Associated Press journalists…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (498+ words) TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered President Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree Saturday with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shoreline: “Lake Ontario. Now and Always.” It was the latest show of defiance after Trump signed an executive order directing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (345+ words) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration’s quest to deport noncitizens…...