Month: June 2024

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran and Bahrain have agreed to talk about how they might resume bilateral relations after more than eight years. The report Monday from Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Iran’s acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani met in Tehran during the Asian Cooperation

By TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The viability of a U.S.-backed proposal to wind down the 8-month-long war in Gaza has been cast into doubt after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only be willing to agree to a “partial” cease-fire deal that would not end

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A possible attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship further away from nearly all of the previous assaults they’ve launched in the Gulf of Aden. The attack happened Monday morning some 450 kilometers southeast of Nishtun, a town in the far reaches

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S. military officer meets with his counterparts this week at a chiefs of defense

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight, officials said. The fire began after batteries exploded while workers were examining and packaging them on the

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan have arrested 23 people accused of being part of a mob that killed a man suspected of desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book. The suspects were charged with murder and burning a police station in Madyan, a tourist destination in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

By JOHN LEICESTER, PAUL WISEMAN and STAN CHOE Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The promises are appealing -– and expensive. Vying to oust the centrist government of President Emmanuel Macron in an upcoming two-round parliamentary election June 30 and July 7, French political parties of both the far right and far left are vowing to

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched more balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea. A Joint Chiefs of Staff statement says the balloons are moving south. It asks South Korean citizens not to touch North Korean balloons and report them to military and

By HANNA ARHIROVA and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s lead negotiator to join the European Union says the war-torn country is on an “irreversible” course of Western integration after the EU agreed to formally start entry negotiations this week. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna told the Associated Press in an interview

BEIJING (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks on Ukraine, peace and bilateral trade on a visit to Beijing that brings the leader of a NATO member to a country that has backed Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Duda told Xi at the meeting on

By JON GAMBRELL and NASSER KARIMI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Cab drivers and bikers tap away furiously on their mobile phones as they wait at red lights in the Iranian capital during an early June heatwave. Some pedestrians in Tehran are doing the same. They all believe they could get rich.