A meeting of high-level security officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey was a step toward dialogue and peace, Iran’s top diplomat said, while stressing that regional security should be handled by the countries themselves rather than outside intervention. Separately, Egypt’s foreign minister held talks with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab…
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — A six-day ceasefire in a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine held for its first day and night, officials said Wednesday, but Moscow and Kyiv continued to batter each other elsewhere. The localized truce in the devastated southern city of Oleshky began Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday as a…
Prakhar Jain, head of the state’s disaster management authority, said the cyclone had weakened slightly before landfall but still packed peak winds of up to 185 kph (115 mph) and brought heavy to very heavy rainfall to several coastal districts, triggering widespread disruption in affected areas. Officials said the cyclone was expected to weaken further…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An airplane passenger was arrested for allegedly writing a message while midair that he was going to “hijack” the plane, forcing the United flight to be diverted back to Las Vegas shortly after takeoff Saturday. The 25-year-old allegedly communicated that he was “gonna hijack this” plane — although he used an…
Demographically, it is true that young people in aging societies — which include France but also the United States and others — no longer have the same weight of numbers that helped their parents and grandparents make their mark when they were young. In France, protesting pupils have managed to spark a national conversation about…
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — A localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect early Tuesday ahead of a humanitarian mission brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump, as missile attacks resumed in Kyiv. The local pause in fighting started at 3 a.m. to allow an aid mission into the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in southern…
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist strongman Aleksandar Vucic dominated the Balkan country’s politics for 14 years. Then came the students. The long-ruling authoritarian leader on Sunday conceded the defeat of his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party to a grassroots movement of university students in a parliamentary election. The students had led protests for almost two…
Also along for the ride: an entourage ranging from aging boxing champions to Cabinet members to relatively unknown aides who help craft Trump’s words and ideas. The passenger list for Trump’s marathon through the sky signals who has the ear of the president. “It can say what his priorities are,” said David Cohen, a professor…
PERRY, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that Audi will build an automobile plant in Georgia as he tries to deliver on his promise to bolster American manufacturing in the final days before the midterm elections. Speaking at a campaign rally in Perry, Georgia, where he sought to boost Republican candidates, Trump…
JERUSALEM (AP) — A survivor of a deadly attack on a church in Jordan described people crawling for their lives and watching the gunmen return to fire more bullets into the dying — as well as at the church facade. The death toll rose to nine on Saturday, a day after the attack, with nearly…