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Hyundai says it will expand production capacity by two-thirds at its sprawling new electric vehicle plant in Georgia.
A federal appeals court won’t lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.
The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants being deported from the United States.
Some military spouses and veterans are questioning the White House’s handling of security after a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat about military strikes in Yemen.
Copper prices have hit record highs as an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners threatens to squeeze supplies of the vital metal.
A lawyer for a Turkish national who is a doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by federal agents without explanation.
President Donald Trump says he is placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims will foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.
French President Emmanuel Macron says that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one.
Thirty years ago, Latino music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he does not yet know the details.
Sudan’s military says it has recaptured the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a rival paramilitary group.
A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices has unanimously accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.
The Atlantic has released the Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials.
Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade.
Growing numbers of Catholics are taking part in Eucharistic adoration – which this year’s Jubilee will mark this weekend with “24 hours for the Lord.”.
A woman accusing French actor Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault has told a landmark trial in Paris that he groped her buttocks and her breasts several times on a film set.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has stressed the importance of free trade and multilateralism and decried threats against democracy as he and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba agreed to step up ties across the board.
Prince Harry has resigned as a patron of an African charity he co-founded nearly 20 years ago in memory of his late mother, Princess Diana.
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of parts of Gaza City as it steps up its renewed offensive against Hamas.
Greenland and Denmark appear cautiously relieved by the news that U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are changing their itinerary for their visit to Greenland Friday.
The U.S. has added dozens of companies to its export control, including more than 50 based in China that it says sought advanced knowhow in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and quantum technology for military purposes.
Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s constitution.
A moving memoir by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the gripping story of a heart transplant by British doctor Rachel Clarke are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.
The chief-executive-to-be at money-losing Japanese automaker Nissan is determined to speed up the company's decision-making to come up with models that say Nissan _ and really sell.
An international agency reports that the installation of renewable energy worldwide hit a record high last year, with 92.5% of all new electricity brought online coming from the sun, wind or other clean sources.
Russia has convicted 23 captured Ukrainians on terrorism charges stemming from the war in Ukraine in a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law.
Australia plans to spend a larger share of its foreign aid on its near neighbors in Asia and the Pacific islands after the United States announced major cuts to development and humanitarian aid abroad.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra easily survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament following a two-day debate in which rivals charged that she has mismanaged the country and let her father, a former prime minister, control her administration.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte says her country will hold general elections one year from now in an effort to end years of instability.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the State Department will re-evaluate its travel warnings for Jamaica and other countries to ensure they reflect real conditions on the ground.
Serbia's populist government is facing increased public scrutiny over reports that it used a sonic weapon against a peaceful crowd during a massive anti-corruption rally in the capital, Belgrade, on March 15.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U_S_ Noem’s Wednesday trip to the prison where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”.
South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins.
A federal judge has ruled that a Columbia University student who faces potential deportation for participating in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now.
A federal judge in Texas has set a June trial date for the U.S. government’s years-old conspiracy case against Boeing for misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people.
Allies of the United States see a group chat about attack plans by top U.S. officials that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake.
An appeals court has allowed the Trump administration to stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. as a lawsuit plays out over the president’s executive order halting the nation’s refugee admissions system.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says the track and field’s governing body has approved the introduction of cheek swabs and dry blood-spot tests for female athletes in order to maintain “the integrity of competition.”.
President Donald Trump is downplaying the texting of attack plans to a group chat that included a journalist as “the only glitch in two months” of his administration.
Gérard Depardieu reigned over French cinema for half a century, a national icon as familiar as the baguette.
Pope Francis’ medical team briefly considered suspending treatment after a Feb. 28 breathing crisis but instead decided on an aggressive treatment course.
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more democracy “than those who cast themselves as its models.”.
Aid groups in Sudan say a military airstrike hit a local market in the country’s western region, igniting a huge fire and killing at least 54 people.
The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison.
European sales of Tesla electric vehicles tumbled 49% in the first two months of the year even as overall sales of EVs grew.
A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled.
Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s parliament has passed a state budget, a move that shores up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition even as the embattled leader faces mounting public pressure over the war in Gaza and the hostage crisis.
Hundreds of migrants temporary settled at Mexico's southern border gave up on their dream of reaching the U.S. following President Donald Trump's crackdown on migration.
The United States says it has reached a tentative agreement for Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting and ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea.
Five traumatized lions rescued from the war zone in Ukraine who are settling into a new home in England after an international effort to bring them to safety.
The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his release.
A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court issued an order to revoke its legal status.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities have released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director, a day after he was beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by soldiers.
The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's iron-fisted rule.
A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices has wrapped up a first day of proceedings to decide whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and several of his associates will stand trial on five counts including attempting to stage a coup.
Wall Street followed up one of its best days of the last year with a quiet day of trading.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel attempted to distance himself from past controversial statements about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people.
The Trump administration’s top intelligence officials have stressed to Congress the threat they say is posed by international criminal gangs, drug cartels and human smuggling.
Lisa Sólrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture.
A new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium in inner-city parkland and a rowing venue in a crocodile-inhabited river have been unveiled as part of a major overhaul of planning for the 2032 Brisbane Games.
Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step.
Brazil’s government has apologized to families of victims of the country’s military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago.
Thousands of protesters have marched in North Macedonia's capital Skopje demanding accountability for a nightclub fire in Kocani on March 16 that killed 59 people and injured over 100.
Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government have filed a legal action in El Salvador aimed at freeing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States.
Answering for America has become an increasingly delicate experience under Trump 2.0, a dozen U.S. citizens in other countries have told The Associated Press in recent weeks.
The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.
Israeli settlers have beaten up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land."
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a “completely false narrative.”.
The United Nations has said it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer and wounding five others.
Will Smith could have let his infamous Oscar slap be his cinematic fade out with a career bruised, a marriage dissected and a reputation in a free fall.
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the celebrated design duo behind Proenza Schouler, will take over as creative directors at Loewe.
The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions and Congo’s proposed minerals deal with the United States in search of peace will not stop the fighting.
Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the environment.
A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court will open proceedings Tuesday to decide whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and several of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup d’etat.
The Philippine defense chief has called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country will accept.
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate checked in at a police station near Romania's capital on Monday, complying with judicial requirements in the case in which they are charged with human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Heathrow executives are defending their response to a fire that shut down Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day.
Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off and sent back to a country where where U.N. experts say they could face torture or other punishment.
Greenland's people are bracing for another visit from U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle.
U.S. negotiators are working with Russian representatives on a proposed partial ceasefire in Ukraine.
Police in India’s western city of Mumbai are investigating whether a popular comedian's jokes about a state politician were defamatory.
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have killed more than 65 Palestinians including women and children.
A private European aerospace company has scrubbed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle.
Victims’ relatives have traveled to the scene in the French Alps of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 10 years ago while hundreds of people marked the anniversary in a German town that was home to an 18-strong school group on board the plane.
French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial at a Paris courthouse on sexual assault charges.
The latest twist in South Korea's political crisis came Monday with the reinstatement of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo after the Constitutional Court overturned his impeachment in a 7-1 ruling.
Mass layoffs and resignations at the federal government are prompting concerns that a disgruntled former employee may seek to sell secrets to a foreign power.
