TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s only major league team will have an entire country behind it during the World Series and has a chance of claiming the championship of America’s pastime at a time when U.S.-Canada relations remain near historic lows. The Toronto Blue Jays host the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 on Friday night […]
PARIS (AP) — France’s Culture Minister said on Tuesday that the security apparatus installed at the Louvre worked properly during a dramatic weekend heist in which historic jewels were stolen from the world’s most-visited museum. Questions have arisen about the Louvre security — and whether security cameras might have failed — after thieves rode a […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets advanced on Tuesday, with Japan’s benchmark approaching the symbolically important 50,000 level for the first time as conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi was poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo was up 0.8% at 49,595.72 as Japanese lawmakers prepared to elect Takaichi. She is […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The small Central American nation of Belize has signed a “safe third country” agreement with the United States, the two sides said on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up deportations and dissuade migration north. What the agreement entails wasn’t immediately clear, but it comes as U.S. President Donald […]
LONDON (AP) — Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Special envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were in Israel Monday to shore up the tenuous ceasefire that’s holding in Gaza, a day after the fragile deal faced its first major flareup with Israel threatening to halt aid transfers after it said Hamas militants had killed […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S President Donald Trump last week was “positive” — even though he did not secure the Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine — and emphasized what he said is continued American interest in economic deals with Kyiv. Zelenskyy said Trump reneged on the […]
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, injected a sharp note of realism into his plans to tackle Bolivia’s economic crisis on Monday, a day after his surprise electoral victory signaled the end of decades of leftist rule in the South American nation. After years of government antipathy […]
TORONTO (AP) — One win from their first World Series, the Seattle Mariners never got off the ground Sunday night. Seattle bounced into inning-ending double plays in three straight turns at bat and made a season-high three errors in a 6-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays that forced the American League Championship Series to […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Wall Street pointed toward gains before the open Monday, overcoming worries about bank lending and the trade war with China. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.4% before the opening bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq were up each up 0.3%. Markets were largely unperturbed by […]
HONG KONG (AP) — A cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong airport runway into the sea when landing early Monday, with two people confirmed dead. The flight, arriving from Dubai, was landing at Hong Kong International Airport around 3:50 a.m., according to Hong Kong’s airport authority. Four crew members on the plane have been […]
PARIS (AP) — Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning. The daring heist at the world’s most visited museum occurred as tourists were inside the Galerie d’Apollon, where part of the French Crown Jewels […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian drones overnight struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a fire, according to a Russian governor and the Ukrainian military. The Orenburg plant, run by state-owned gas giant Gazprom and located in a region of the same name near the Kazakh border, is part of a production […]
BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out cyberattacks on its national time center following an investigation, saying any damage to related facilities could have disrupted network communications, financial systems and power supply. The Ministry of State Security alleged in a WeChat post that the U.S. agency had […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire. The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, came into effect immediately and is intended to pause hostilities. Violence has escalated between the neighbors since earlier this month, with each country […]
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago cautioned Americans on Saturday to stay away from American government facilities on the twin-island nation. It was an unusual warning that came as tensions grow between the United States and Venezuela over deadly U.S. strikes in Caribbean waters targeting suspected drug traffickers. Venezuela is […]
CAIRO (AP) — The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Saturday raided a U.N. facility in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, a U.N. official said, but all staff were reported to be safe. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the U.N. resident coordinator for Yemen, said Houthi security forces entered the U.N. compound in Sanaa. He told The Associated Press […]
LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew said Friday he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines. The younger brother of King Charles III said he and the royal family had decided “the continued accusations about me distract from the work […]
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was set to be sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him fleeing from the country into hiding. Col. Michael Randrianirina, the commander of an elite army unit, will take […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Asian shares skidded Friday following a retreat on Wall Street driven by concerns over banks’ loan portfolios. U.S. futures and oil prices also fell, while the price of gold climbed to over $4,383 an ounce as Washington and Beijing swapped harsh words over trade. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.3% to 47,646.31, […]
LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad (AP) — Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., Samuel Moncada, condemned on Thursday a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.” He called on the U.N. Security Council to investigate what he called a “series of assassinations,” noting […]
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday that someone at the U.S. Embassy has been threatening to cancel the visas of Panamanian officials as the Trump administration pressures Panama to limit its ties to China. Responding to a question at his weekly news conference, Mulino said without offering evidence that an […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa on Thursday welcomed a U.S. bridging plan worth $115 million that would continue funding HIV treatment and prevention programs until the end of March, saying it was a sign of good bilateral relations despite recent tensions. The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, has been credited with […]
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A former security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Norway was convicted of espionage Wednesday after a court in Oslo found that he spied for Russia and Iran. The 28-year-old Norwegian man, whose name has not been made public, was sentenced to three years and seven months behind bars. He had […]
