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Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov arrives for a coalition of the willing defence ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Britain announces a surge of Ukraine support as Western backers meet to drum up arms and ammunition

Britain has announced a “surge” of military support to Ukraine, as the war-ravaged country’s Western backers gather at NATO headquarters to drum up weapons and ammunition. Britain said Friday … more

4/11/25

Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton speaks at the West Australian Leadership Matters breakfast, in Perth on Friday, April 11, 2025. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian opposition leader says his home was the target of an alleged bomb plot

Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed that his family home was the target of an alleged bomb plot but says concerns for his personal safety did not restrict his election … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 4/11/25

In this photo provided by South Korea Foreign Ministry, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, left, shakes hands with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani after signing a joint statement on the establishment of diplomatic ties between the countries in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (South Korea Foreign Ministry via AP)

South Korea establishes diplomatic relations with Syria, a longtime friend of rival North Korea

South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar Assad was ousted. Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday there were now new … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 4/10/25

FILE - Ahmed Manasra, a 13-year-old Palestinian is brought to a court in Jerusalem, Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015. According to the indictment, Manasra and his cousin Hassan, 15, stabbed two Israelis in an east Jerusalem neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel releases Palestinian who took part in attack aged 13 and developed mental illness in prison

Israel has released a Palestinian who took part in an attack when he was 13 and developed schizophrenia in prison as requests for early release were denied. Israel says Ahmad Manasra is a terrorist … more

By MAHMOUD ILLEAN and MELANIE LIDMAN | 4/10/25

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speak during a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of a summit for "coalition of the willing" at the Elysee Palace, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Defense chiefs from around 30 countries expected at NATO for talks on a future Ukraine force

Britain and France are convening a meeting of defense ministers from around 30 countries to press ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police any future peace agreement with Russia. … more

4/10/25

In this video frame, Sudanese displaced children take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Omdurman, Sudan, located across the Nile River from Khartoum, on Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo)

Sudan faces the world's worst humanitarian crisis as second anniversary of war nears, UN says

A senior U.N. official says a nearly two-year-old war has engulfed Sudan in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and led the African country to become the only nation experiencing famine. The … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 4/10/25

FILE - Ksenia Karelina, also known as Khavana sits in a glass cage in a court room in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024.(AP Photo/File)

US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina is released in prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the lawyer for a U.S.-Russian dual national jailed in Russia on treason charges say she has been freed in a prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington. … more

By The Associated Press | 4/10/25

Zimbabwe makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land seizures

Zimbabwe has started compensating white farmers who lost land during chaotic and often-violent land reforms more than 20 years ago, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said. The move is part of a deal … more

By FARAI MUTSAKA | 4/10/25

Members of Parliament celebrate as the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi bill was rejected by Parliament in a 112 to 11 vote in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Robert Kitchin/Stuff via AP)

New Zealand lawmakers reject proposed law to redefine the country's founding Treaty of Waitangi

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown. The Principles … more

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY | 4/10/25

This image taken from video that European military officials say was filmed by a Ukrainian drone in the southern Ukrainian village of Piatykhatky on March 13, 2025, shows a soldier, left, identified as Russian, pointing his gun at a Ukrainian soldier who appears to be surrendering after emerging from the ruins of a house to join other Ukrainian prisoners on the ground. (Ukraine Military/European Defense Officials via AP)

Video shows 4 captive Ukrainian troops killed by men identified as Russian forces

Ukrainian drone video seen by The Associated Press shows four Ukrainian soldiers being shot to death by soldiers with Russian uniform markings in the village of Piatykhatky on March 13. Video from a … more

By ERIKA KINETZ, JOHN LEICESTER and BEATRICE DUPUY | 4/10/25

Suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded the area around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Tuesday night, killing at least two people and wounding 13 others, the Houthi rebels said.

Suspected US strikes in Yemen kill at least 10 people, Houthi rebels say

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida, killing at least 10 people and wounding 16 others. The Houthi rebels say the strikes Tuesday night hit … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 4/9/25

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, attends a funeral service for Hwang Jang-yop, who was the intellectual force behind North Korea's philosophy of self-reliance, at a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 11, 2010. (Yonhap via AP)

Famous North Korean assassin who became a pastor in the South following failed 1968 mission dies

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, has died. He … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM | 4/9/25

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure.

Hegseth says China's military presence in Western Hemisphere is 'too large'

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has again put China at the center of U.S. priorities in the Western Hemisphere, one day after calling the world power a threat to the Panama Canal. Speaking at … more

By JUAN ZAMORANO | 4/9/25

Afghan refugees take rest at a transit station setup to facilitate Afghan refugees' deportations, outskirt of Chaman, a town on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo)

US restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where millions need it

United Nations officials say the Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations while maintaining them in Afghanistan and Yemen. Those are two of the … more

By SAMY MAGDY, RIAZAT BUTT and ELLEN KNICKMEYER | 4/9/25

A Somali internally-displaced (IDP) child sits outside makeshift homes in Maslah camp, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

8 people die from cholera in South Sudan as funding cuts force longer walks to clinics

An aid organization says five children are among eight people who have died from cholera in South Sudan after aid cuts are forcing patients to walk for hours to reach the nearest clinics. The Save … more

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI | 4/9/25

FILE - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto speaks during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (Hasnoor Hussain/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Indonesia offers to shelter Palestinians from Gaza

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto says that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinians impacted by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. He says Indonesia is ready to evacuate a first batch … more

4/9/25

Suspected US strikes in Yemen kill at least 6 people, Houthi rebels say

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida, killing at least six people and wounding 16 others. The Houthi rebels say the strikes Tuesday night hit … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 4/9/25

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Russian 120mm mortar crew fire toward Ukrainian position at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Ukraine's Zelenskyy says 2 Chinese were caught fighting alongside Russia

Ukraine's president says the military has captured two Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has information that … more

By VASILISA STEPANENKO | 4/9/25

FILE - Members of the IPAC (Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China) attend its Taipei Summit in Taipei, Taiwan, , July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Beijing ups diplomatic pressure on Africa as the US pulls back

Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, officials from … more

By DAKE KANG | 4/9/25

Hong Kong social worker Jackie Chen stands in front of the District Court building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong for journalists to take photographs ahead of her verdict hearing Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Kanis Leung)

Social worker imprisoned nearly 4 years for mediation attempts at Hong Kong protests

A Hong Kong social worker has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for rioting after she tried to mediate between protesters and police at the 2019 anti-government protests. Jackie … more

By KANIS LEUNG | 4/9/25