By ANDREW WILKS and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu went on trial on Monday with more than 400 other defendants accused of widespread corruption in a case critics see as a politically motivated move against Turkey's opposition. Imamoglu, who has ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles, with their launchers arriving at an army camp Monday as the country accelerates its offensive capability in response to rising challenges in the ...
By KEN MORITSUGU and CHAN HO-HIM Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Two major economic plans unveiled at the annual meeting of China's legislature outline top priorities that have different ramifications for the global economy. In the government plan for 2026, the No. 1 task is "building a ...
By ALEX VEIGA, ELAINE KURTENBACH and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers Oil prices continued to soar on Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and straining energy supplies worldwide. The price of Brent crude, the international ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence assessment completed shortly before the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran had determined that American military intervention was not likely to lead to regime change in the ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — New footage shows what an expert investigative group says is likely an American Tomahawk missile hitting a compound in southern Iran, meters from the school where a deadly unclaimed blast killed over 165 people at the start of the war ...
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Iran war has put at risk some of the world's most critical oil and gas infrastructure — the pipelines, refineries, and shipping terminals that keep energy flowing from the countries around the Persian Gulf to the global ...
By ALLAN OLINGO Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Surging oil prices triggered by the war with Iran are rippling across African economies, threatening higher fuel costs, rising inflation and renewed pressure on currencies across the continent. Africa imports most of the petroleum ...
By JON GAMBRELL, SAM METZ, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran's late supreme leader, has been named as the Islamic Republic's next ruler, authorities announced Monday, as Tehran widened its attacks across the ...
By ALEX VEIGA and ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writers Oil prices continued to soar on Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and pummeling financial markets. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, surged to as ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with ...
By CARA ANNA Associated Press Iran has named a son of its late supreme leader as his successor. U.S. President Donald Trump already had expressed disdain for Mojtaba Khamenei, calling him "unacceptable." The Islamic Republic's war strategy now has a new commander, and the powerful ...
By STEFANIE DAZIO and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press Police in Norway were investigating an explosion early Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, the capital of the Scandinavian country, officials said. No injuries were reported. Police received reports of a "loud bang" or explosion ...
By ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG Associated Press As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at risk in the energy-rich but arid region. On Sunday, Bahrain accused Iran of damaging one of its desalination ...
By IMAD ISSEID and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press ABU FALAH, West Bank (AP) — Three Palestinians were killed in a violent clash with settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, bringing the number of Palestinians killed in recent days to six. The surge in violence comes as ...
By JON GAMBRELL, SAM METZ, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's late supreme leader, has been named his successor, Iranian state TV announced early Monday, as the war that began with his father's killing ...
By SERRA YEDIKARDES Associated Press KAPIKOY BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (AP) — A land crossing near eastern Turkey's Van province is one of the few routes connecting Iranians to the rest of the world amid an airspace shutdown in Iran since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Tehran over ...
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli special force that landed in eastern Lebanon overnight in search of information about a navigator who has been missing for nearly 40 years did not find his remains, the Israeli military said Saturday. The operation left dozens of ...
By JON GAMBRELL, SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Iran war exploded further late Saturday as pillars of flame rose above an oil storage facility in Tehran, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised "many surprises" for the ...
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As the war in the Middle East strains U.S. missile stocks, Ukraine is hoping it can turn a wartime innovation — low-cost interceptors designed to shoot down Russian attack drones — into geopolitical ...