US President Donald Trump suggested Friday it would be premature to give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles, saying as he hosted Volodymyr Zelensky that he hoped to secure peace with Russia first. “Hopefully they won’t need it. Hopefully...
The EU is looking at providing funding and expertise to help disarm Hamas under US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, a document seen by AFP Friday said. The 27-nation bloc is discussing what role it can play after Europe was left...
Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of Brazil’s convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro, has not ruled out a possible presidential run in 2026, telling AFP in an interview she would leave it up to God, and her husband. “Any decision regarding...
A Polish court on Friday refused a German extradition request for a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia with Europe. The Warsaw judge said the German request “does not...
OpenAI has suspended its Sora 2 artificial intelligence tool from creating videos of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. after his estate complained about disrespectful depictions. The slain civil rights leader’s estate and OpenAI...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared victory Friday after a UN body delayed a vote on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ships under heavy pressure from the United States. “This is another HUGE win” for President Donald Trump...
Donald Trump will hold talks with China’s Xi Jinping during the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea, the US president said in a Fox interview excerpt released Friday. “We’re going to meet in a couple of weeks. We’re going to...
Wall Street stocks were little changed early Friday following the prior day’s losses as markets monitored the latest on US regional banks and trade relations between Beijing and Washington. Weakness in regional banks had weighed on US stocks...
Hungary’s foreign minister said on Friday that his country would ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin can enter and “hold successful talks” with the US despite an ICC arrest warrant against him. Hungarian Prime Minister...
Brussels is proposing that the bulk of a potential 140-billion-euro ($163-billion) loan for Ukraine — funded by Russian frozen assets — be used to buy European weapons, according to a document seen by AFP Friday. The European Commission...
The Argentine peso depreciated against the dollar Friday despite fresh US support for the currency that has proven volatile ahead of legislative elections later this month. With the government of President Javier Milei under pressure, the peso...
An international vote to formally approve cutting maritime emissions was delayed by a year Friday, in a victory for the United States which opposes the carbon-cutting plan. The London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations...
The US government shutdown could force the layoffs of most of the employees handling the nation’s nuclear weapons, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee warned Friday. “We were just informed last night (that) the National...
The Mexican National Guard sent supplies on Thursday to flood-hit communities, after heavy rains killed 70 people and left dozens missing. The military-run organization carried out several flights from Pachuca, the capital of Hidalgo, to various...
The Kremlin said Friday that “many” questions needed resolving before Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump could meet, including who would be on each negotiating team. “Foreign Minister (Sergei) Lavrov...
