TOKYO (AP) — Japanese panda fans are gathering Sunday for the final public viewing at Tokyo 's Ueno zoo before twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei return to China. Their departure Tuesday will leave Japan with no pandas for the first time in half a century, and the chances of getting a replacement...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The bloodiest crackdown on dissent since Iran 's 1979 Islamic Revolution is slowly coming into focus, despite authorities cutting off the Islamic Republic from the internet and much of the wider world. Cities and towns smell of smoke as fire-damaged mosques...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region would be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi for talks to end Russia’s nearly four-year full-scale invasion. The UAE’s foreign ministry said the...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Olena Janchuk spends another day of freezing isolation in her high-rise apartment. The former kindergarten teacher suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis, and has been trapped for weeks on the 19th floor of her Kyiv tower block, 650 steps from the ground. Long daily...
DALLAS (AP) – More than 8,000 flights across the US set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears down, threatening to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways. Roughly 140 million people were under a winter...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump took center stage in his whirlwind visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, overshadowing the yearly gabfest among national leaders, executives and other elites in the Swiss Alpine snows. While some experts highlighted business...
PARIS (AP) — In a hypothetical nuclear war involving Russia, China and the United States, the island of Greenland would be in the middle of Armageddon. The strategic importance of the Arctic territory — under the flight paths that nuclear-armed missiles from China and Russia could take on...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Leading global economic policymakers at the World Economic Forum in Davos urged countries and businesses to filter out the turmoil from a week of clashes with the Trump administration and focus on boosting growth and fighting inequality in a world where trade will...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine 's eastern Donbas region will be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for talks to end Russia 's nearly four-year full-scale invasion. The three-way talks come...
LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump provoked outrage and distress among many in the United Kingdom on Friday with his suggestion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan. In an interview with Fox News in...
TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown , as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic power use to meet soaring electricity needs. The first steps in energy production at...
LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom rose in December for the first time in five months, pushing further above the Bank of England 's target, according to official figures released on Wednesday. The Office for National Statistics said the consumer prices index rose by an annual rate...
