CARACAS (AP) — Venezuela 's former opposition candidate Edmundo González called on Saturday for presidential elections as the five-month mark of interim President Delcy Rodríguez 's administration approaches in the wake of the U.S. military intervention that ousted Nicolás Maduro in...
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo 's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster than the response despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals. WHO...
NEW YORK (AP) — Businesses big and small have started receiving tariff refunds after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump lacked the constitutional authority to impose higher import taxes on goods from nearly every other country. The process could grind to a halt, however,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An upcoming celebration of America 's 250th anniversary, "The Great American State Fair," recently had several musical guests back out partly over the event 's ties to President Donald Trump. Now, Trump himself is slated to headline the festivities, the organizers said...
HONG KONG— Under the bright lights of the 22nd Asian U20 Athletics Championships, Jeralyn Rodriguez delivered the race of her young career. Clocking 54.83 seconds in the women’s 400m final, the 19-year-old Rodriguez finally punched her ticket to the World U20 Athletics Championships in Oregon...
AL QUAA DESERT, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The gleaming skyscrapers and brights lights of the United Arab Emirates draw the eyes of all who travel there, a sign of the Arabian Peninsula nation 's rapid, oil-fueled development over the last decades into a major hub for commerce and tourism....
HONOLULU (AP) – Decades before Filipino American agricultural workers organized a historic strike in California, Pablo Manlapit was organizing Filipino laborers in Hawaii. Manlapit, who migrated to Honolulu in 1910 to work on sugar plantations, saw the exploitation of other Philippine-born...
WASHINGTON (AP) – US President Donald Trump held a White House Situation Room meeting with his advisers on Friday but has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with a deal to extend the Iran ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the agreement has not been finalized....
Four global institutions have warned that the prolonged war in the Middle East is posing increasing risks to global energy security, food supplies, and economic growth as oil inventories continue to decline at a record pace. In a joint statement last Friday, May 29, the International Energy...
“Live and die in the moment and repeat that cycle.” This is the uncompromising mantra behind “Child World Grotto,” a collaborative exhibit by Ana Verayo and Ernest Concepcion at Modeka Art. Running until June 6, the project marks a fascinating convergence between Ana’s calculated...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people, Romanian authorities said Friday. In response to the crash in the city of Galati, NATO member Romania asked the alliance for a faster...
Facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians, President Vladimir Putin appears ready to try to change the narrative around the conflict. He looks likely to sharply escalate the Russian aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital in the hope it will shore up his...
