VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will finally canonize Venezuela 's beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday, offering the Caribbean nation its first saint and a reason to celebrate amid its years-long economic crisis and new tensions with the United States. José Gregorio Hernández,...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in more than a week of fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. It is the deadliest crisis between the two countries in several years. The...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eighteen people have been injured during a stampede at a soccer stadium during the state funeral service Friday for Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the democratic reformer who died this week in India at the age of 80. Kenyans had turned out in large numbers to...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Dozens of South Koreans allegedly involved in online scams in Cambodia are about to be flown back home aboard a charter plane, officials said Friday. The repatriation follows the death of a South Korean student who was reportedly forced to work in a scam center in...
People in Russia and Ukraine on Friday hoped for progress but anticipated no major breakthrough on ending their war at an upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The two leaders agreed in a phone call Thursday to meet in Budapest, Hungary, in the...
For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more has dropped, an encouraging sign that America 's epidemic of excess weight might be improving. But cuts to federal staff and programs that address chronic disease could endanger that progress,...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian and South Korean officials agreed Thursday to cooperate in combating online scams, after the death of a South Korean student who was reportedly forced to work in a scam center in Cambodia triggered public outrage in South Korea. A South Korean delegation led...
ROME (AP) — The United Nations ' food aid agency said Wednesday that severe funding cuts from its top donors are especially hurting its operations in six countries and warned that nearly 14 million people could be forced into emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Program, traditionally...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top defense official said Wednesday that Jakarta will acquire at least 42 Chinese-made Chengdu J-10C fighter jets, marking the country 's first non-Western aircraft purchase deal. Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told reporters in the capital,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed nearly 130 deep-pocketed donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their pledged contributions to a massive new ballroom. The ballroom, whose price tag is now estimated...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 's plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom because a windshield cracked on a flight back to the U.S. from a NATO meeting and all aboard are safe, the Pentagon said. The plane landed “based on standard procedures,” Pentagon...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The tenuous ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was holding Tuesday even as the return of deceased hostages from Gaza progressed more slowly than Israelis had hoped and health officials in the devastated territory said the Israeli military fatally shot three Palestinians. A...
