By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft "pandemic treaty" that sets guidelines for how the international community ...

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known ...

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — For weeks, the family had been on the move. Israeli troops had forced them from home during a military operation that has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. After finding shelter in a wedding ...

By BRIAN MELLEY, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish ...

ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — NATO's support for Ukraine remains "unwavering," the alliance's secretary-general said Tuesday, emphasizing that more than 20 billion euros — over $22 billion — in security assistance has already been pledged by NATO allies in the first three months of the ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's post office will stop shipping small parcels to the United States after Washington announced plans to charge tariffs on small-value parcels from the southern Chinese city, the government said Wednesday. The U.S. government ...

By SAMY MAGDY and FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — As Sudan marks two years of civil war on Tuesday, atrocities and famine are only mounting in what the United Nations says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Last month, the Sudanese military secured a major victory by ...

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 14,000 American and Filipino forces will take part in battle-readiness exercises in the Philippines, including live-fire drills, in a largescale deployment that shows the Trump administration is not scaling back its commitment ...

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The White House is urging Colombia to halt the implementation of new auto safety regulations that could jeopardize American car exports to Colombia, as both nations prepare to discuss tariffs recently imposed on Colombian products ...

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering funds received from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 ...

By GERALD IMRAY and CHARLES MANGWIRO Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mozambique's security forces carried out a brutal, three-month crackdown on protesters after the country's election last year, a leading international rights group said Wednesday, citing local activists ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted angrily Tuesday to what he called "disrespectful" remarks by the European Union foreign policy chief who warned European leaders against traveling to Moscow for military celebrations of the end of World War ...

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors said Tuesday they have opened an investigation alleging terrorist conspiracy and attempted murder after several prisons were targeted in incidents that included gunfire and arson. Top officials described the attacks as a ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The International Monetary Fund disbursed on Tuesday the first installment of Argentina's new $20 billion loan program after President Javier Milei removed most of Argentina's strict capital and currency controls. For years, ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union pledged hundreds of millions of dollars Tuesday to ease suffering in Sudan, on the second anniversary of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 14 million and pushed large parts of the ...

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's new special envoy to the United States is already under scrutiny for calling U.S. President Donald Trump a racist, homophobic and narcissistic "right-winger" in a speech in 2020. Mcebisi Jonas, a former deputy ...

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China's Xi is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of "stability and certainty." On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam's President Luong Cuong. He ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew long-range B-1B bombers in a show of force against North Korea on Tuesday, days after the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to resist a U.S.-led push to eliminate the North's nuclear ...

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Akber Khan is seeing a brisk trade at his restaurant in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Staff fan skewers of grilled meats and dole out rice and salad. As an Afghan, Khan ought to be leaving as part of a nationwide ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Hamas official said Monday that the Palestinian militant group is sending a delegation to the Gulf state of Qatar to continue indirect ceasefire talks with Israel over the war in Gaza, as the territory's ...