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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second right, greets Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU leaders commit to working together after Trump signals that Europe must defend itself

European Union leaders committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security.
 
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump casts doubt on NATO solidarity, despite it aiding the US after Sept. 11

 
Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the front line near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)

Ukraine will struggle to strike targets inside Russia without US intelligence

 
Demonstrators hold photos depicting the faces of Israeli hostages who are being held in the Gaza Strip, during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hamas brushes off Trump’s threat and says it will only free hostages in return for a lasting truce

 
A member of the Syrian government security forces stands guard at a street in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Assad loyalists kill at least 13 police officers in ambush on Syrian forces in coastal town

 

ELECTION WATCH

In this grab taken from video provided by RTS Serbia smoke bombs and flares are released in parliament, in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (RTS Serbia via AP)

At least 3 Serbian lawmakers injured as smoke bombs and flares thrown in parliament

At least three lawmakers were injured after chaos erupted in Serbia’s parliament, where smoke bombs and flares were thrown.
 
Jailed, former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, arrives for his trial on charges of rebellion and others against the state at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peruvian ex-President Castillo is on trial for a failed attempt to dissolve Congress

Former Peruvian Presfident Pedro Castillo is on trial on charges of rebellion, grave abuse of authority and perturbing public tranquility in a case that has polarized the South American nation.
 

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From left, Markus Söder, Chairman of the CSU and Minister President of Bavaria, Friedrich Merz, candidate for Chancellor of the CDU/CSU, Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and Federal Chairman of the CDU, Lars Klingbeil, Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and Federal Chairman of the SPD, and Saskia Esken, Party Chairwoman of the SPD, hold a press conference in Berlin, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Carsten Koall/dpa via AP)

Germany’s likely next government seeks higher defense spending as doubts rise about US commitment

 

  1. Guinea-Bissau president says he will run for a second term amid political turmoil

     
    Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo enters a hall during his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

  2. Gabon’s military leader announces he will run in April presidential election

     
    Transitional President of Gabon Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema addresses the Summit of the Future in the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Trump signs order delaying some tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Thursday that delay for a month 25% tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada amid widespread fears of the economic fallout from a broader trade war.
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Mexico’s Sheinbaum welcomes new pause in US tariff measures

Zelenskyy and EU leaders comment ahead of emergency summit

MIDEAST WARS

Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip after Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip after Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Israel’s cutoff of supplies to Gaza sends prices soaring as aid stockpiles dwindle

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.
 
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Arab leaders endorse Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza as an alternative to Trump’s proposal

 

Trump administration again labels the Houthis a ‘foreign terrorist organization’

 

Lebanon and Saudi Arabia work to improve relations, call for Israeli withdrawal

 

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A Palestinian girl walks on a road in the West Bank village of Tuwani, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Palestinians hope ‘No Other Land’ Oscar win brings help as they face possible Israeli expulsion

 

  1. Iranian government official who was key to 2015 nuclear deal tenders resignation under pressure

  2. Muslims in the Middle East observe Ramadan amid political upheavals and postwar turmoil

Russia-Ukraine war

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump says Zelenskyy wants peace and is ready to accept a minerals deal after White House blowup

 
A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)

Trump’s halt on military aid will hurt Ukraine’s defenses. But it may not be fatal

 
Former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Trump’s pick as NATO ambassador says US commitment to the alliance is ‘ironclad’

 

GLOBAL BUSINESS NEWS

An American flag is displayed on the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Wall Street tumbles as tariff whiplash and falling AI stocks drag Nasdaq 10% below its record

 
For sale and sold signs are seen in storage at a real estate office on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Mortgage rates have declined but could stay at a level that makes it tough to afford a home

 
The sun has set behind the European Central Bank, right, in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, the day before the meeting of the ECB's governing council. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

European Central Bank cuts rates again as threat of trade war with Trump weighs on economy

 
A Vancouver Police officer talks on his phone outside of a crime scene at a 7-Eleven after a stabbing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

7-Eleven parent names new CEO and plans IPO in US as it fights a takeover bid by Circle K’s owner

 
A help wanted sign is seen at a Allstate insurance office in Elgin, Ill., Saturday, March 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits falls as labor market remains sturdy

 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Víctor Razuri, 41, from Peru, poses in a ham drying plant in Guissona, Lleida, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Inside a cavernous production plant in northeastern Spain, among millions of legs of Spanish ham traveling down hooks and conveyer belts, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a successful food company humming. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)

Foreign workers help Spain’s economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe

 
A municipal worker cleans a traffic circle in downtown Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, one month after the city was captured by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

It’s been a month since rebels seized an eastern Congo city. Goma residents say they are struggling

 
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses attendees at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Nov. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Microsoft workers protest sale of AI and cloud services to Israeli military

 
Pallets of branded aluminum cans at the production line in the Palestinian Chat Cola bottling plant, in the West Bank city of Salfit, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Coca-Cola’s appeal to Palestinians fizzles as the Mideast war boosts demand for a local look-alike

 
Artisans Adrian Moran, left, and Ariel Sanchez, the creators of Clave Humidors, pose with one o their cigar humidifiers during the XXV Cigar Festival at Convention Palace in Havana, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba’s cigar fair showcases humidors as the new object of desire

 
Friedrich Merz, left, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), stand next to Secretary General Carsten Linnemann, right, after he receives flowers at the CDU's headquarters, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

The biggest takeaways from Germany’s election, which will bring change to the EU’s leading power

 
In this photo taken Jan 20, 2025 and released by Guo Qingshan, a view of the "puppy mountain" which went viral over the internet in China seen in Yichang, a city in central China's Hubei Province. (Guo Qingshan via AP)

‘Puppy Mountain’ photo draws onlookers to a Chinese riverside

 
Andrii Rubliuk, a senior sergeant with a Ukrainian intelligence unit who lost both arms and a leg in combat, holds a rifle during military training near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after losing arms and legs, vowing to continue the fight

 
Belle Gibson arrives at the Federal Court in Melbourne, Australia, May 14, 2019. (David Crosling/AAP Image via AP)

Wellness blogger Belle Gibson lied about having cancer. Years later, Australia is still chasing her

 

Regions

Europe

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump casts doubt on NATO solidarity, despite it aiding the US after Sept. 11

 

  1. EU leaders commit to working together after Trump signals that Europe must defend itself

  2. Poland and Baltic nations welcome Macron’s nuclear deterrent proposal

  3. A weak Pope Francis thanks people for their prayers ‘from the bottom of my heart’ in audio message

Asia

A man waves the Chinese national flag and Communist Party flag in the popular Wangfujing shopping street in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China slams US tariffs, says its economy is resilient but there are no winners in a trade war

 

  1. Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of 3 former organizers of Tiananmen vigils

  2. A boy with a loaded shotgun boarded a plane in Australia but was tackled by a former boxer

  3. South Korea and the US will begin annual military drills next week

Latin America

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speaks with reporters after President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump changes course and delays some tariffs on Mexico and Canada

 

  1. New Senate bill seeks to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US from China and Mexico

  2. In Mexico City, this German organist says music is a gift from God and the organ’s sound is proof

  3. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem promises help in her first visit to Puerto Rico

Middle East

People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza

 

  1. A charity kitchen brings hope to displaced Palestinians in the West Bank during Ramadan

  2. Sudan files case to UN court alleging UAE is breaching genocide convention by funding rebels

  3. Middle East latest: The US is holding direct talks with Hamas

Africa

A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

The US has withdrawn from a climate agreement that helps developing nations, South Africa says

 

  1. Trump says no one has heard of Lesotho. But Musk is trying to do business in the African nation

  2. Mali suspends artisanal gold mining permits for foreign companies after series of accidents

  3. Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 14 as new cluster emerges, posing a challenge to health workers

  4. Scientists raise concerns as the US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

U.S. News

This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File)

A South Carolina man is set to become the first executed by firing squad in 15 years

 

  1. California’s Gavin Newsom opposes trans athletes in women’s sports, splitting with progressives

  2. Judge says plans to release a woman in Slender Man case can go forward

  3. Adnan Syed to stay free after judge decides on time served for his murder sentence in ‘Serial’ case

  4. Trump’s move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man’s heroics at 18 in World War I

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King Charles III hosts a reception at Buckingham Palace, London, with representatives from his military affiliations to thank them for their service, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/Pool photo via AP)

What are King Charles III favorite songs? A new Apple radio show gives answers

 
Flowers and a sign are placed outside the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Judge orders Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in USAID and State Dept. debts

 
Elon Musk departs the Capitol following a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Judge stops immediate shutdown of small US agency for African development

 
A half-moon sets behind the Sultanahmet Mosque during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

AP Week in Pictures

 
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump targets security clearances of law firm over actions related to 2016 Russia investigation

 
A Monarch butterfly rests near a stream at Piedra Herrada sanctuary in the mountains near Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico rebound this year

 

Heat wave in southern Brazil prompts five cities to suspend classes

 

‘Profound differences’ thwart Geneva meeting on protecting civilians in Palestinian areas

 
A model wears a creation as part of the Off-White Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear collection presented Thursday, March 6, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Off-White unveils uniforms of strength and resistance for Paris Fashion Week

 

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Chile, with no reports of injuries or damage

 
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talk during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Trump envoy says Ukrainians ‘brought it on themselves’ after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing

 
FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FBI committed to bringing home American hostages held in foreign countries, director says

 
In this June 24, 2016 file photo the logo of German industrial conglomerate Siemens is pictured prior to the opening ceremony at the new headquarters in Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, file)

Siemens announces $285 million investment in US manufacturing

 

Nigerian Senate suspends a female senator over sexual assault accusation

 
Models wear creations as part of the Chloe Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear collection presented Thursday, March 6, 2025. in Paris. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Chloé collection goes with the flow as Kamali flaunts the blouse at Paris Fashion Week

 

Ariane 6 rocket roars skyward carrying a French military reconnaissance satellite

 

Explosion at Tehran military site kills 1 and injures 10 firefighters

 
Serena Williams, of the United States, talks with her daughter Olympia and husband Alexis Ohanian after defeating Danka Kovinic, of Montenegro, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Aug. 29, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Women’s tennis players now are eligible for paid maternity leave funded by Saudi Arabia’s PIF

 
This undated handout photo issued on Wednesday March 6, 2025 by the Hertfordshire Police shows Kyle Clifford who has been found guilty at Cambridge Crown Court of raping his ex-partner Louise Hunt in an attack which saw him murder her and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a butcher's knife. (Hertfordshire Police via AP)

Crossbow killer convicted of raping his ex-partner during attack near London in which 3 women died

 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers reporters questions during an event in Ottawa on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s tariffs to remain despite Trump postponing tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month

 
Pakistani producer Shah Hussain Syed, second left, chats with Kausar Bibi, center, and Robina Naz, right, during the shooting of a scene of tv drama serial "Aadi Si Bewai' or 'Half Infidelity', in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

In tense relations with India, Pakistani TV dramas break down barriers that diplomacy often cannot

 

Turkey says 26 PKK militants were killed in military operations despite peace efforts

 
This photo shows the logo of TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) during the Taiwan Innotech Expo at the World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan says chipmaker’s move to invest $100 billion in the US wasn’t because of US pressure

 

Japan’s top court upholds ex-TEPCO leaders’ acquittal on negligence over Fukushima nuclear crisis

 
A prisoner transporter van is parked in front of the Higher Regional Court building after the court convicted five people of plotting to overthrow the government in a far-right coup and kidnap the former health minister, in Koblenz, Germany. Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Thomas Frey/dpa via AP)

5 convicted of plotting to overthrow the German government and kidnap the health minister

 
A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Albania shuts down TikTok for a year amid concerns over violence among children

 
Members of the band 'The 1975' from left, Ross McDonald, George Daniel, Matthew Healy and Adam Hann pose for photographers upon arrival at the Mercury Prize Albums of the Year event in London, on Sept. 15, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Neil Young, The 1975 and Olivia Rodrigo among the headliners as Glastonbury reveals 2025 lineup

 
Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik speaks after a court sentenced him to one year in prison and banned him from engaging in politics for six years over his separatist actions, during a rally in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Bosnian officials mount legal challenge to separatist Bosnian Serb laws as tensions soar

 
Shitsui Hakoishi, 108, poses for a photo with a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing her as the world's oldest female barber, at her shop in Nakagawa in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Wednesday March 5, 2025. (Kyodo Photo via AP)

Meet the world’s oldest female barber

 
A seller talks to a customer in a street market in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Turkey’s central bank lowers key interest rate as inflation slows