South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that his rival, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, isn’t asking for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula as a precondition for abandoning his nuclear weapons. If true, this would seem to remove a major sticking point to a potential nuclear disarmament deal.
Raul Castro turned over Cuba’s presidency Thursday to a 57-year-old successor he said would hold power until 2031, a plan that would place the state the Castro brothers founded and ruled for 60 years in the hands of a Communist Party official little known to most on the island.
New policies will loosen restrictions on the export of U.S.-made drones.
The Austrian pediatrician is hailed for his work, but new research into his life shows he might have gone along with a violent regime.
Skeptics doubt that Kim Jong Un would so easily give up on one of his key demands
Breathe easy, Switzerland: The tiny African kingdom of Swaziland is changing its name.
The three-judge panel said the use of the term “sanctuary cities” is an attack on local authorities.
The leader of large protests that have roiled the capital of Armenia for a week is calling on supporters to renew efforts to paralyze traffic.
Brazil’s first black supreme court justice says he is considering a run for president in October.
A look at Miguel Diaz-Canel, the new president of Cuba:
Mexican immigration agents have found a total of 191 mostly Central American migrants jammed into a truck and a bus.
Six months after the militants’ capital was liberated, new risks are emerging from Raqqa’s rubble.
Raul Castro travels in motorcades of gleaming imported sedans. Rings of grim-faced bodyguards protect him, pistols under crisp guayabera shirts. The 86-year-old outgoing president of Cuba arrives at official events moments before they begin, and the audience rises to applaud.
Formally named Cuba’s head of state, Diaz-Canel spoke of cautious change, but always in the context of Cuban socialism.
Guatemalan prosecutors are again accusing President Jimmy Morales of corruption related to alleged illegal campaign financing while he was secretary general of his party.
The Indian Olympic Association says it will bid for three major sporting events — the 2026 Youth Olympics, the 2030 Asian Games and the 2032 Summer Olympics.
Russia’s top military officer has met with his NATO counterpart, the first such encounter since relations between Moscow and the alliance have sunk to post-Cold War lows over the Ukrainian crisis.
Paris also witnessed its warmest April weather since 1949.
It is possible the FBI’s former No. 2 official could be charged with a federal crime.
Police say two people have died in the crash of a light airplane in Northern Ireland.
Two senior U.S. Treasury officials say finance ministers from several Latin American nations as well as the U.S. and Europe have agreed to work jointly to locate and seize assets arising from corruption by Venezuelan government insiders.
The president lashed out on Twitter again hours after Gov. Jerry Brown said he had reached a deal with federal officials to send personnel to the Mexico border.
Is Israel a success as it turns 70? As Israelis commemorate the milestone this week, satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage.
Iran’s defense minister has visited a joint intelligence center in the Iraqi capital operated by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia.
Though maces are used in symbolic capacities all around the world, in Nigeria it is a particularly potent symbol of governance. The perpetrators still at large.
The tulip region of the Netherlands takes on the appearance of a patchwork quilt in the spring.
Indian police say they have arrested 18 Rohingya Muslims in a remote northeastern region as they prepared to board a train for New Delhi after entering illegally from Bangladesh.
The British government wants to take action to ban plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds — and is urging other Commonwealth nations to follow suit.
Egypt’s foreign minister has delivered a warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building on a Nile River tributary.
Raul Castro says new Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel could become Communist Party head once Castro leaves the post.
Rebels in southern Syria who were once backed by the United States fear a new offensive by President Bashar Assad’s forces, one that risks igniting a wider conflict.
Turkey’s weak opposition is scrambling to mount a meaningful challenge against strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with just nine weeks to prepare for snap elections.
Iran has ordered an investigation after a video surfaced showing police pushing and pulling a young woman who was resisting arrest for not adhering to the Islamic dress code.
Veteran diplomat Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast’s ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the U.N. Security Council, has died suddenly.
The World Health Organization says he first-ever vaccine for dengue needs to be dealt with in “a much safer way,” meaning that the shot should mostly be given to people who have previously been infected with the disease.
A Roman Catholic priest has been stabbed to death in his church on the outskirts of Mexico City.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in says North Korea hasn’t asked for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula as a precondition for abandoning his nuclear weapons. If true, this would remove a major sticking point to a nuclear disarmament deal.
The Kremlin says a temporary nationalization of aluminum producer Rusal is being discussed after the company was hit by United States sanctions.
Puerto Rico’s power company said Thursday that it has restored electricity to more than 80 percent of customers affected by an island-wide blackout that was caused by an excavator hitting a transmission line, but tens of thousands of families still remain without normal service seven months after hurricanes Maria and Irma.
Intruders stormed parliament and ran off with a ceremonial mace. Later, it was found under an overpass.
Egypt is exhibiting artifacts from the Ptolemaic period for the first time in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The European Union foreign policy chief has praised Montenegro’s role in the volatile Balkans region, where Russia is also vying for influence.
A 19-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker has turned himself in to police after his violent attack on a man wearing a Jewish skullcap in Berlin caused outrage across Germany.
The Latest on Raul Castro’s handover of Cuba’s presidency (all times local):
Raul Castro has left Cuba’s presidency, turning government over to Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Israel is celebrating 70 years since the modern Jewish state was established.
Miguel Diaz-Canel elected president of Cuba.
Cuba’s legislature begins session at which Raul Castro is scheduled to leave the presidency.
The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local):
Puerto Rico’s power company says it has restored electricity to more than 80 percent of customers affected by an island-wide blackout that was caused by an excavator hitting a transmission line.
German pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck says it has agreed to sell its global consumer health business to Procter & Gamble for 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in cash.
Sindri Thor Stefansson is suspected of orchestrating the heist of about $2 million in computer equipment, officials say.
Greece’s highest court has imposed severe restrictions on the movements of one of eight Turkish servicemen who have applied for asylum in Greece after fleeing Turkey following a failed 2016 coup there, while he waits for a decision on his asylum application.
Nepal’s government has honored two climbers who were the first to scale Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen 40 years ago.
Another member of the Swedish Academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize is resigning, bringing the total number of board members who are quitting to six.
A string of recent attacks and incidents in Berlin has triggered renewed fears of anti-Semitism.
Syrian state media say hundreds of rebels fighters in a town northeast of Damascus have handed in their weapons and started to leave under an evacuation deal.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has discussed the future of Europe after Britain leaves the European Union next year in talks with top Romanian officials.
Queen Elizabeth II has opened a summit of the 53-nation Commonwealth, and backed her son Prince Charles to be the next leader of the association of Britain and its former colonies.
The young girl was a Muslim. Her alleged assailants are Hindu.
A nationalist councilwoman in Berlin has been ridiculed online for proposing the closure of one the city’s most famous techno clubs because of its long opening hours as well as partygoers’ drug consumption and lascivious behavior on the dance floor.
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Russian investigators say they have traced back the steps of a poisoned Russian spy’s daughter from her Moscow home to the airport before she flew to London, and found no traces of poison.
Pakistan says Afghan authorities have returned the bodies of five Pakistani soldiers killed during a weekend clash along a disputed segment of the two countries’ border, and also released a sixth soldier captured by the Afghans.
Yemeni tribal leaders say security forces have killed two suspected al-Qaida operatives in the country’s southern province of Abyan.
Thousands of people are expected to march in protest at French President Emmanuel Macron’s reforms as rail strikes and student protests continue to shake the country.
Italian police have arrested 22 suspected Sicilian Mafiosi as part of an ongoing operation aimed at capturing Italy’s most-wanted Mafia fugitive Matteo Denaro.
A regional public broadcaster says the Basque militant group ETA is ready to announce its final dissolution early next month, putting an end to decades of violent campaign for independence from Spain.
The Chinese government says Qualcomm Inc.’s plan for its $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors “has difficulty” resolving concerns of anti-monopoly regulators.
People in Warsaw are pinning paper daffodils to their clothes as the Polish capital begins a day of commemorations on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
French President Emmanuel Macron is heading to Berlin for meetings with Angela Merkel in the hopes of winning support from the German chancellor on his ambitious reform plan for the European Union.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck in southern Iran near a nuclear plant, shaking Bahrain and other areas around the Persian Gulf. There was no immediate report of damage or injuries.
Pakistani police say a group of men on motorcycles hurled acid at three female university students in the city of Gujrat.
Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar’s army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country’s north.
Japan’s vice finance minister has denied sexual misconduct allegations against him and challenged a TV station’s report that its employee was a victim.
Taiwan’s government says recent Chinese military drills aim to intimidate the island and are a threat to regional peace and stability.
Trump has set about reversing the historic rapprochement with Cuba started by Obama.
China has held live-fire exercises off its southeast coast, state media said Thursday, in an apparent warning to the democratic, self-ruled island of Taiwan against what Beijing deems as provocative remarks on independence.
An international corruption watchdog group says two years after the Panama Papers revealed how the rich have stashed wealth in shell companies, the world’s Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations have made only slow progress improving the legal tools to ensure transparency.
Asian shares rose on Thursday as improving optimism about the global economy helped investors shake off worries about geopolitical risks for the moment.
A shallow earthquake in central Indonesia has killed three people and damaged more than 300 homes.
The remnants of a migrant caravan of Central Americans that angered President Donald Trump were continuing their journey north through Mexico toward the U.S. border Wednesday.
The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
Imagine a national budget that reflects steady growth, gives a healthy boost to science and technology while reserving big slices of the overall pie to defense and social spending. It’s generous with infrastructure improvements, and is certain of unquestioning, unanimous approval in parliament.
A protest over social security changes in Nicaragua has led to clashes between opponents of the measure and government backers.
Imagine a national budget that reflects steady growth, gives a healthy boost to science and technology while reserving big slices of the overall pie to defense and social spending. It’s generous with infrastructure improvements, and is certain of unquestioning, unanimous approval in parliament.
President Lenin Moreno said Wednesday that he is suspending Ecuador’s role as a mediator in peace talks between the Colombian government and that nation’s last major rebel army.
Colombia’s police could start using drones to tackle a five-year surge in cocaine production that has jeopardized relations with the United States.
Malaysian opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday that huge rallies indicate some of the ruling coalition’s traditional Malay supporters are now favoring the opposition and a change of government is possible in next month’s elections.
State will send up to 400 troops in a limited role that bars them from helping border agents
The U.N. Security Council is heading to a remote Swedish estate this weekend for its annual retreat with the secretary-general after one of its most contentious weeks in years that saw ambassadors accusing each other of lying about a suspected chemical attack in Syria.
Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said Wednesday that he has asked for his leftist predecessor be investigated for allegedly taking campaign contributions from Colombian guerrillas.
New austerity measures are looming for Puerto Rico as a federal control board overseeing the U.S. territory’s finances prepares to approve several fiscal plans this week that will serve as the island’s economic blueprint for the next five years.
Bipartisan legislation would initiate a five-year research project.
Three members of the Tennessee Air National Guard were punished after last week's re-enlistment ceremony.
Daryll Rowe, who was convicted of five counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, was the first person to be convicted of the charge in Britain.
Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno says he wants his leftist predecessor Rafael Correa investigated for allegedly taking campaign contributions from Colombian guerrillas.
Colombia’s police could start using drones to tackle a five-year surge in cocaine production that has jeopardized relations with the United States.
New austerity measures are looming for Puerto Rico as a federal control board overseeing the U.S. territory’s finances prepares to approve several fiscal plans that will serve as the island’s economic blueprint for the next five years.
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