WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen. The crux of the legal fight is over nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved aid that President Donald Trump last month said he would not...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the South Korean government announced Sunday. Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff for President Lee Jae Myung, said South Korea and...
LONDON, England – The World Bank is gearing up to help countries build safer nuclear power facilities by enhancing their technical capacity and strengthening institutional structures to mitigate project risks. In an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the recently concluded World Nuclear...
LONDON — Prince Harry will make a flying visit to his U.K.-based charities this week, leading to a flurry of speculation about whether he will meet with his father, King Charles III, for the first time in 19 months. Amid signs of a thaw in the frigid relationship between Harry and the rest of...
The World Bank said its loan-funded Philippine Fisheries and Coastal Resiliency (FishCoRe) Project is making progress even as the Washington-based multilateral lender slightly downgraded the project’s overall implementation ratings. In a Sept. 5 implementation status and results report, the World...
BANGKOK — Anutin Charnvirakul, a veteran politician best known for successfully lobbying to decriminalize cannabis in Thailand, became the country 's prime minister after receiving a royal endorsement Sunday. Anutin, 58, succeeds Paetongtarn Shinawatra of the Pheu Thai Party, who was...
TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign, following growing calls from within his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s parliamentary election. Ishiba, who took office in October, said he was stepping down as prime minister and...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV was set to declare a 15-year-old computer whiz, Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint on Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname "God 's influencer." An open-air...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn 't immediately clear what caused the incident. There has been concern about the cables being targeted in a Red Sea...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia hit Ukraine 's capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building. Russia attacked Ukraine with 805 drones and...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for its big loss in the July parliamentary election, Japanese television reported. Ishiba, who took office in October, has...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo 's authorities announced earlier this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, confirmed the presence of the...
