By LORNE COOK and TARA COPP Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and suggested Kyiv should abandon hopes of winning all its territory back from Russia and instead prepare for a negotiated peace ...

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl's efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after his party won a national election. Austria's ...

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Jordan's King Abdullah II once again rejected any mass displacement of Palestinians after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has called for the Gaza Strip's roughly 2 million residents to be removed from the ...

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in Gaza and directed troops to prepare to resume fighting Hamas if the militant group does not r elease more hostages on ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration's plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and ...

By MATT O'BRIEN, THALIA BEATY and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers PARIS (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman's push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company. "We ...

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press KAFR AL-LABAD, West Bank (AP) — The call came in the middle of the night, Mohammed Shula said. His daughter-in-law, eight months pregnant with her first child, was whispering. There was panic in her voice. "Help, please," Shula recalled her saying. "You ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas' threat to delay the next planned release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip has jolted a fragile ceasefire that's seen as having the potential to wind down the war. It has brought new dismay for Israelis who watched the latest Hamas handover of hostages in ...

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In his first big moment on the world stage, Vice President JD Vance delivered an unmistakable message: the United States under the 47th president has room for you on the Trump train — but it also has no problem leaving you behind. Vance, ...

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of an influential Peruvian bishop, who has come under criticism for not doing enough to stop abuses committed by a conservative Catholic movement that was recently disbanded by the ...

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Members of the Church of England 's parliament voted Tuesday to introduce more independent oversight of the way it handles abuse allegations, amid growing pressure to improve its accountability. But groups representing abuse survivors expressed ...

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces targeted Ukraine's energy and gas infrastructure in a "massive" nighttime missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said Tuesday, as the near three-year war rumbled on ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence for her activity on Twitter in Saudi Arabia drastically reduced, a rights group said Monday Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two, had been sentenced to 34 ...

By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his resignation on Monday following mounting pressure from populist opposition groups, two months after a top court annulled a presidential election in the ...

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's tit-for-tat duties on U.S. imports took effect Monday, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he wants to slap new duties on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. The rapid-fire shots of tariffs ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador will choose its next president in a runoff election after conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González garnered enough votes Sunday to beat 14 other candidates. The contest, set for April ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A performer at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag emblazoned with the words Sudan and Gaza in a protest over the two wars that are roiling the Middle East. Security at the stadium detained the ...

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press MUGHRAQA, Gaza Strip (AP) — New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages renewed pressure Sunday on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase, even as U.S. President ...

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Preliminary results showed that Prime Minister Albin Kurti 's party won Kosovo's parliamentary election Sunday but without the majority needed to govern alone, as talks on normalizing ties with rival Serbia remain stalled and ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa stunned voters when, with only a brief stint as a lawmaker and no established political machinery, he outperformed several presidential candidates in the 2023 snap election and advanced to a runoff against the ...