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WORLD NEWS


Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan casts her vote during the general elections at Chamwino polling station in Dodoma, Tanzania, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo)
11 minutes ago

Tanzania President Hassan wins disputed election with more than 97% of vote, official results show

Read full article: Tanzania President Hassan wins disputed election with more than 97% of vote, official results show
People protest days after a deadly police operation targeting a drug trafficking gang at the Complexo da Penha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
7 hours ago

Protesters call for governor’s resignation after Rio’s deadliest police raid

Read full article: Protesters call for governor’s resignation after Rio’s deadliest police raid
President Donald Trump speaks to the media after boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, enroute to Florida. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
9 hours ago

Trump opens the door for sanctions on Nigeria over persecution of Christians

Read full article: Trump opens the door for sanctions on Nigeria over persecution of Christians
FILE - Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers being questioned for detainee abuse, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
11 hours ago

Israel's military prosecutor admits she leaked video of soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee

Read full article: Israel's military prosecutor admits she leaked video of soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee

Israel’s top military prosecutor has resigned after admitting to leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a roundtable on criminal cartels with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
3 hours ago

US national intelligence director says former American strategy of 'regime change' is over

Read full article: US national intelligence director says former American strategy of 'regime change' is over

U.S. national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard says America’s former strategy of “regime change or nation building” has ended under President Donald Trump.

This photo released by UNICEF shows displaced children and families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Mohammed Jammal/UNICEF via AP)
7 hours ago

Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

Read full article: Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

The World Health Organization reports that gunmen who reportedly killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan's Darfur region returned three times to the facility during their assault.

FILE - Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
13 hours ago

South African government criticizes Trump's refugee policy prioritizing white Afrikaner minority

Read full article: South African government criticizes Trump's refugee policy prioritizing white Afrikaner minority

The South African government has criticized the U.S. policy shift that will give priority to Afrikaners for asylum.

Afghan refugees sit beside trucks loaded with their belongings as they wait their turn to leave for their homeland through a border crossing point which partially opens following Oct.19 ceasefire on the outskirts of Chaman, a border town on the Pakistan Afghan border, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/H. Achakzai)
13 hours ago

Pakistan says it seeks no further escalation but urges Afghanistan to act against militants

Read full article: Pakistan says it seeks no further escalation but urges Afghanistan to act against militants

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Islamabad does not seek further escalation of hostilities with Afghanistan but expects the country’s Taliban rulers to address its security concerns by taking action against militants operating from Afghan soil.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency personnel work to extinguish a fire in Sumy, Ukraine, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, following Russian drone attacks. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
14 hours ago

Russia deploys 170,000 troops for push in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Zelenskyy says

Read full article: Russia deploys 170,000 troops for push in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has deployed about 170,000 troops in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, aiming to capture the city of Pokrovsk.

Newly appointed Culture Minister Rachida Dati arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
15 hours ago

French minister vows Louvre anti-intrusion devices after post-heist report finds security lapses

Read full article: French minister vows Louvre anti-intrusion devices after post-heist report finds security lapses

France's culture minister says that the Louvre will install streetside anti-ramming and anti-intrusion devices in the next two months.

FILE - Albert Luthuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance to apartheid, is shown in his home in Groutville, Natal Province, South Africa, on Oct. 24, 1961. (AP Photo, File)
16 hours ago

New inquest rules South African Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli was beaten to death in 1967

Read full article: New inquest rules South African Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli was beaten to death in 1967

A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death.

FILE - Firefighters and emergency teams work after a fire that broke out at a hotel in the ski resort of Kartalkaya, located in Bolu province, northwest Turkey, on Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
17 hours ago

Turkish court sentences hotel owner and 10 others to life for deadly fire that killed 78

Read full article: Turkish court sentences hotel owner and 10 others to life for deadly fire that killed 78

A Turkish court has sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison for severe negligence in a deadly fire.

FILE.- U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright talks during a news conference at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) in Las Vegas, Monday Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil, File)
18 hours ago

Israel puts off signing $35 billion gas deal with Egypt, prompts US energy secretary to cancel visit

Read full article: Israel puts off signing $35 billion gas deal with Egypt, prompts US energy secretary to cancel visit

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has said that his refusal to sign a $35 billion gas agreement with Egypt has prompted his U.S. counterpart Chris Wright to cancel a planned trip to Israel.

Palestinians wait to get donated sugar and rice at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
5 hours ago

Unidentified remains of 3 people transferred to Israel, Red Cross says

Read full article: Unidentified remains of 3 people transferred to Israel, Red Cross says

The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages.

A TV presenter holds a newspaper with a picture of prince Andrew as she talks to the camera at a gate near to the Royal Lodge, following the announcement that Prince Andrew will be stripped of his titles and leave the 30-room mansion he has occupied for more than 20 years in Windsor, England, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
9 hours ago

Giuffre family welcomes Andrew's fall from royal status but wants more action

Read full article: Giuffre family welcomes Andrew's fall from royal status but wants more action

King Charles III has stripped his brother Andrew of his princely title and home amid mounting pressure to address his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump greets Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
17 hours ago

Orbán to press Trump for Hungary's exemption from new US sanctions on Russian oil

Read full article: Orbán to press Trump for Hungary's exemption from new US sanctions on Russian oil

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt Hungary from new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil when he visits Washington next week.

Long-range drones An-196 Liutyi of the Ukrainian 14th Separate Unmanned Aerial Systems Regiment stand in line before takeoff in undisclosed location, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
17 hours ago

Built in the shadows and launched at night, Ukraine's long-range drones are rattling Russia

Read full article: Built in the shadows and launched at night, Ukraine's long-range drones are rattling Russia

In rural Ukraine, attack drones are assembled in secret to strike deep into Russia.

People protest in the streets of Arusha, Tanzania, on election day Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/str)
11 hours ago

Security forces and protesters clash following disputed election in Tanzania; UN says 10 dead

Read full article: Security forces and protesters clash following disputed election in Tanzania; UN says 10 dead

Protests in Tanzania have entered their third day as the electoral body continues to announce the results of an election that sparked deadly demonstrations, leading to the government’s shutdown of the internet and the deployment of the military.

A soldier patrols in courtyard of the Louvre museum, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
19 hours ago

Louvre heist highlights thorny issue for museums: How to secure art without becoming fortresses

Read full article: Louvre heist highlights thorny issue for museums: How to secure art without becoming fortresses

Many museums began reassessing security after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris.

Relatives mourn over the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
1 day ago

Rio favelas left reeling after lethal gang raid as families bury the dead

Read full article: Rio favelas left reeling after lethal gang raid as families bury the dead

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid.

FILE - Britain's Prince Andrew, left, and Britain's King Charles III leave after the Requiem Mass service for the Duchess of Kent at Westminster Cathedral in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan, File)
13 hours ago

Royal prerogative: King Charles III banishes Andrew to buttress the House of Windsor's foundations

Read full article: Royal prerogative: King Charles III banishes Andrew to buttress the House of Windsor's foundations

No one is bigger than the monarchy.

From left, Brunei's Defense Minister Halbi bin Haji Mohd Yussof, Cambodia's Defense Minister Tea Seiha, Indonesia's Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, Laos' Defense Minister Khamlieng Outhakaisone, Myanmar's Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aung Kyaw Moe, Malaysia's Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin, Philippine's Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, Singapore's Defense Minister Chan Chun Sing, Thailand's Defense Minister Natthaphon Narkphanit, East Timor's Defense Minister Donaciano da Costa Gomes, Vietnam's Defense Minister Phan Van Giang, and ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn hold hands as they pose for a group photo during the opening session of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool)
20 hours ago

US defense chief vows to 'stoutly defend' Indo-Pacific interests in talks with China

Read full article: US defense chief vows to 'stoutly defend' Indo-Pacific interests in talks with China

The U.S. Secretary of Defense has told his Chinese counterpart that Washington will "stoutly defend" its interests in the Indo-Pacific.

A guide briefs visitors at the Bulguksa Temple where preparations are underway ahead of events for attendees of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summits in Gyeongju, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
18 hours ago

China's Xi promises to protect free trade at APEC as Trump snubs major summit

Read full article: China's Xi promises to protect free trade at APEC as Trump snubs major summit

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders his country would help to defend global free trade as U.S. President Donald Trump snubbed an annual economic regional forum.

Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU Summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos)
17 hours ago

Latvian Parliament votes to withdraw from domestic violence treaty

Read full article: Latvian Parliament votes to withdraw from domestic violence treaty

The Latvian Parliament has voted to withdraw from a European treaty supporting women who are victims of violence.

A selection of British national newspapers showing the front pages and their reaction to Prince Andrew announcing that he will relinquish his Duke of York title and the Order of the Garter, amid ongoing problems in his personal life, in London, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
1 day ago

A look at Prince Andrew's antics and scandals that have tried royal patience for decades

Read full article: A look at Prince Andrew's antics and scandals that have tried royal patience for decades

Prince Andrew is losing the title he’s had since birth and being evicted from his U.K. royal residence following recent revelations about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

FILE - Britain's Prince Andrew, left, and Britain's King Charles III leave after the Requiem Mass service for the Duchess of Kent at Westminster Cathedral in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan, File)
1 day ago

King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence

Read full article: King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence

Buckingham Palace says that King Charles III is stripping his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicting him from his royal residence.

President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, look at each other after their summit meeting at Gimhae International Airport Jinping in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
1 day ago

Deal between the US and China is undoing damage from a self-inflicted trade war

Read full article: Deal between the US and China is undoing damage from a self-inflicted trade war

After months of posturing, arguing and threatening, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have essentially turned back the clock.

View of the Sagrada Familia basilica, which became the world's tallest church on Thursday after a section of its central tower was lifted into place, in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
1 day ago

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia becomes the world's tallest church

Read full article: Barcelona's Sagrada Familia becomes the world's tallest church

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica has become the world’s tallest church.

FILE - The Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington on March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
1 day ago

GOP lawmakers urge Trump administration to back Falun Gong lawsuit against Cisco

Read full article: GOP lawmakers urge Trump administration to back Falun Gong lawsuit against Cisco

Two prominent Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco.

Associated Press Paris Chief Photo Editor Guy Kopelowicz at the AP office in Paris in 1984. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
1 day ago

Guy Kopelowicz, former Paris photo chief for AP, dies at 85

Read full article: Guy Kopelowicz, former Paris photo chief for AP, dies at 85

Guy Kopelowicz, a renowned photo editor with The Associated Press, has died at 85.

Penha favela residents protest in front of the Guanabara Palace against a deadly police operation on alleged drug traffickers of the Comando Vermelho gang, in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
1 day ago

Death toll from Rio de Janeiro police raid on drug gang rises to 121

Read full article: Death toll from Rio de Janeiro police raid on drug gang rises to 121

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people dead.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, right, shakes hands with his Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
1 day ago

Greek airline will run direct flights to Baghdad starting in December

Read full article: Greek airline will run direct flights to Baghdad starting in December

An official says a Greek airline will start running direct flights from the European Union country to Baghdad before the end of the year.

FILE - In this undated photo provided by NASA on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, astronaut Scott Kelly looks out the cupola of the International Space Station. (NASA via AP, File)
1 day ago

The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit

Read full article: The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit

The International Space Station is marking 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit.

People gather, among them students, to walk on the street towards the northern city of Novi Sad, for a huge rally on Nov. 1 marking the first anniversary of a train station disaster that killed 16 people, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
23 hours ago

Serbia youth lead thousands on march for weekend rally marking deadly canopy collapse last year

Read full article: Serbia youth lead thousands on march for weekend rally marking deadly canopy collapse last year

Thousands of mainly young protesters in Serbia have embarked on a two-day march from the capital Belgrade.

Adam Mohammed Adem, an injured Sudanese who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, receives medical care at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abaker)
1 day ago

Fate of thousands feared in Darfur after reported rampage by Sudanese paramilitary force

Read full article: Fate of thousands feared in Darfur after reported rampage by Sudanese paramilitary force

Aid workers are concerned that only a few people fleeing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's Darfur region have reached safety.

Local residents react after a Russian missile hit their hostel in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
1 day ago

Russia blasts Ukraine's power grid again, causing outages across the country and killing 6

Read full article: Russia blasts Ukraine's power grid again, causing outages across the country and killing 6

Russia has launched another massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing power outages across the country.

An aerial view shows the partly flooded village of Blatten after recent snowfalls, five months after a landslide destroyed the village, Blatten, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
1 day ago

This Swiss village has been swamped and now it’s snowed under. They’re slowly digging their way out

Read full article: This Swiss village has been swamped and now it’s snowed under. They’re slowly digging their way out

The Swiss village of Blatten might have been left for dead after a devastating landslide five months ago.

LATEST NEWS HEADLINES


Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan casts her vote during the general elections at Chamwino polling station in Dodoma, Tanzania, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo)
11 minutes ago

Tanzania President Hassan wins disputed election with more than 97% of vote, official results show

Read full article: Tanzania President Hassan wins disputed election with more than 97% of vote, official results show
Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 24th annual Halloween party at Hard Rock Hotel New York on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)
1 hour ago

Heidi Klum reveals her much-anticipated 2025 Halloween costume

Read full article: Heidi Klum reveals her much-anticipated 2025 Halloween costume
Hannah Bowerman, left, a technical designer for Terry Precision Cycling, measures a bike shirt worn by market designer Thea Sousa during a fit session at the companys headquarters in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
2 hours ago

A Vermont cycling apparel company is trying to survive Trump's tariffs. Will the Supreme Court help?

Read full article: A Vermont cycling apparel company is trying to survive Trump's tariffs. Will the Supreme Court help?
FILE - President Barack Obama speaks at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Dec. 6, 2016,. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
2 hours ago

Obama to rally Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey in weekend campaign push before Election Day

Read full article: Obama to rally Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey in weekend campaign push before Election Day
Rob Jetten, leader of the Democrats 66, D66, celebrates, one day after the general election, at the House of Representatives in The Hague, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
1 day ago

Neck-and-neck finish in Dutch election as Wilders' far-right party and centrist D66 tie

Read full article: Neck-and-neck finish in Dutch election as Wilders' far-right party and centrist D66 tie

Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom and the centrist D66 have tied in the Dutch general election with 98% of votes counted.

A soldier patrols in courtyard of the Louvre museum, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
1 day ago

5 more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge

Read full article: 5 more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge

Authorities have tightened the dragnet around the Louvre thieves, arresting five more people in connection with the recent crown-jewels heist.

Flor Jimenez waters her crop of cempasuchil flowers in preparation for Day of the Dead celebrations in Xochimilco where marigolds are grown on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)
1 day ago

This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk

Read full article: This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.

A Palestinian man pushes a wheelbarrow past a closed gate set up by Israeli authorities that blocks an entrance to the West Bank village of Sinjil, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
1 day ago

Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the West Bank during the war in Gaza, group says

Read full article: Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the West Bank during the war in Gaza, group says

A Palestinian government body says Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the occupied West Bank since Israel's war with Hamas began over two years ago.

A man searches for cell signal from the roof of his house flooded and damaged by Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
1 day ago

Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa's destruction

Read full article: Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa's destruction

Communities across the northern Caribbean are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a joint press conference with Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)
2 days ago

US strikes another alleged drug-carrying boat in the Pacific and kills all 4 aboard, Hegseth says

Read full article: US strikes another alleged drug-carrying boat in the Pacific and kills all 4 aboard, Hegseth says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military has killed four people in a strike against a boat that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as he receives a gift of a gold crown and an award of the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, not seen, during a high honor ceremony at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
2 days ago

US will share tech to let South Korea build a nuclear-powered submarine, Trump says

Read full article: US will share tech to let South Korea build a nuclear-powered submarine, Trump says

The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., meets with reporters to discuss President Donald Trump's strategy on tariffs, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
2 days ago

Senate vote on nullifying tariffs on Canada demonstrates opposition to Trump's trade policy

Read full article: Senate vote on nullifying tariffs on Canada demonstrates opposition to Trump's trade policy

The Senate is passing legislation that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada.

President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
1 day ago

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea

Read full article: Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea

President Donald Trump says he has decided to lower his combined tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods to 47% after talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on curbing fentanyl trafficking.

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building, destroyed by an Israeli army strike at Al-Shati camp in Gaza City Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)
1 day ago

What Israel's deadly strikes in Gaza, and Trump's response, reveal about the ceasefire

Read full article: What Israel's deadly strikes in Gaza, and Trump's response, reveal about the ceasefire

Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with Russian servicemen who fought in Ukraine as he visits the Central Military Clinical Hospital, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Vladimir Gerdo, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
2 days ago

Putin claims Russian troops have surrounded 2 Ukrainian cities but Ukraine says that's not true

Read full article: Putin claims Russian troops have surrounded 2 Ukrainian cities but Ukraine says that's not true

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming that Ukrainian forces are surrounded by the Russian army in two key eastern cities and is offering to negotiate a deal for their surrender.

Sudanese who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, speak at their camp in Tawila, Sudan, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhnnad Adam)
2 days ago

Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds at a hospital in Darfur, residents and aid workers say

Read full article: Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds at a hospital in Darfur, residents and aid workers say

Sudan's paramilitary forces have reportedly killed hundreds at a hospital, including patients, after seizing the provincial capital of North Darfur.

Residents look at the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
2 days ago

Protests erupt after police raid in Brazil leaves 119 dead and draws accusations of excessive force

Read full article: Protests erupt after police raid in Brazil leaves 119 dead and draws accusations of excessive force

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead is drawing protests for excessive force and calls for the Rio de Janeiro’s governor to resign.

President Vladimir Putin holds Russian Orthodox icons as he meets with soldiers wounded in action in Ukraine, at the the Mandryk Central Military Clinical Hospital, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
2 days ago

Putin says Russia's nuclear-armed underwater drone was tested successfully

Read full article: Putin says Russia's nuclear-armed underwater drone was tested successfully

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, declaring that the new weapon can’t be intercepted.

FILE- Servicemen run during the Steadfast Dart 2025 exercise, involving some 10,000 troops in three different countries from nine nations, representing the largest NATO operation planned this year, at a training range in Smardan, eastern Romania, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)
2 days ago

The US draws down troops on NATO's eastern flank as Europe frets about a security vacuum

Read full article: The US draws down troops on NATO's eastern flank as Europe frets about a security vacuum

The U.S. confirms it will reduce its troop presence on NATO’s borders with Ukraine.

FILE - Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, speaks to The Associated Press during an interview at freedom park in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)
2 days ago

Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US visa was revoked after Trump criticism

Read full article: Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US visa was revoked after Trump criticism

Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka says his non-resident visa to enter the United States has been rejected.

Head of the brigand of banditry repression Pascal Carreau, left, and Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau speaks attend a news conference at the Paris courthouse Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, on the judicial investigation into the jewels robbery at the Louvre museum in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
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A Paris prosecutor says two suspects in the Louvre jewel heist have admitted their involvement in the theft.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a joint press conference with Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)
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Displaced Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli army strike on their tent camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory.

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