By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators said Wednesday they'll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry.
The Competition and Markets Authority ...
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Voters in North Macedonia were casting ballots Wednesday for a president they hope will oversee the country's long-anticipated entry into the European Union,
The small Balkan country has orbited the EU for nearly two ...
By JILL LAWLESS and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A big, new package of U.S. military aid will help Ukraine avoid defeat in its war with Russia. Winning will still be a long slog.
The arms and ammunition in the $61 billion military aid package should enable Ukraine to ...
By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan's space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the lunar ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Raising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities on Tuesday to demand increased funding for the country's public ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors said on Wednesday that they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact.
Under a deal concluded between ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Britain's home secretary on Tuesday touted Britain's migrant deportation deal with Rwanda as a "new and creative" deterrent to an old and growing problem. But he said he took seriously criticism by the U.N. refugee agency that it violates ...
PARIS (AP) — Officials at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Tuesday unveiled a new security baggage system and a dedicated baggage handling area ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The new equipment includes a revamped scanner system to allow a more detailed scan of passengers' baggage, ...
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — A man who works for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, authorities said Tuesday. The detention came less than 24 hours after three people were arrested for ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti's capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her.
They stuck electrodes to her chest and ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.K. on Tuesday pledged an additional $620 million in new military supplies for Ukraine, including long-range missiles and four millions rounds of ammunition, at a time when Ukraine is struggling to hold off advancing Russian forces on the eastern front line of the ...
By JADE LE DELEY and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ''social cleansing'' ahead of the Summer ...
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims "infiltrators" — some of his most incendiary rhetoric to date about the minority faith in a campaign rally days after the ...
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such ...
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian psychologist who had an incurable disease that weakened her muscles and left her bedridden for several years died by euthanasia, her lawyer said Monday, becoming the first person in the country to obtain the right to die ...
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 's latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
The parliamentary logjam that had stalled ...
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press
LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van's rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta: It isn't entirely flooded.
That and the ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after ...
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Indigenous people began gathering in Brazil's capital on Monday for what was expected to become a protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's unfulfilled promises to create reserves and expel illegal ...