WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America’s skeptical Group of Seven allies on the strategy of the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring, the State Department said Tuesday. Rubio will attend a G7 foreign ministers meeting near Versailles outside of…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A major Russian drone and missile attack on civilian areas of Ukraine killed four people and injured at least 27, officials said Tuesday, while Moscow’s army stepped up efforts to break through Ukrainian front-line defenses in what could be the start of an anticipated spring ground offensive. Russia fired almost 400…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state, state media said Tuesday. In a speech Monday to Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament, Kim accused the United States…
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The front-runner in Hungary’s parliamentary election said on Monday that an alleged backchannel between Budapest and Moscow should be investigated as “treason” after the Washington Post reported that Hungary’s government has for years provided Russia with detailed information from EU Council meetings. Péter Magyar, the main political opponent of Hungary’s long-serving…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a “major, major threat” because of the Iran war. “No country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to go in this direction,” Fatih Birol told Australia’s National Press Club in…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Beneath a leaden sky in a municipal cemetery, relatives of Eduardo Ramos and Alicia Cerrotta carry the two urns containing their remains. They lean down to kiss the wooden caskets before resting them in a mausoleum in Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman. “We finally know where they are,” one of…
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba began restoring its energy system on Sunday, a day after a nationwide collapse of the entire grid left millions of people in the dark for the third time this month. Some 72,000 customers in the capital, among them five hospitals, had electricity again early Sunday, according to a report from the…
Motegi, speaking on a Fuji Television talk show, said the person had been detained since last year and was released on Wednesday. He said another Japanese national who was arrested earlier this year is still in custody. Motegi said the release came after his repeated demands to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and that he…
The Iran war persisted Friday in drawing Arab neighbors directly into the conflict, with heavy explosions shaking Dubai early in the morning as air defenses intercepted incoming fire over the city as people observed Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Bahrain’s Interior Ministry reported a fire erupted Friday morning…
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s technology giant Alibaba Group pledged on Thursday a goal of surpassing $100 billion in revenue from its artificial intelligence and cloud businesses over the next five years, which it said would be powered by the AI demand boom. The announcement of the ambitious target came as the company posted a…