By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed on Monday, the day before U.S. President Donald Trump's deadline for imposing higher tariffs on goods imported from China.
Oil prices extended declines that began last week on expectations for a possible ...
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A 90-day pause on imposing higher tariffs on China is due to expire on Tuesday and it is unclear if it will be extended.
After the most recent round of China-U.S. trade talks, held late last month in Stockholm, Chinese and U.S. ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president will pardon jailed former justice minister and liberal ally Cho Kuk this week, officials said Monday, cutting short his two-year sentence for falsifying academic records to help his children enter prestigious schools. The decision will also ...
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday, joining the leaders of France, Britain and Canada in signaling they would do so.
His remarks followed weeks of urging from ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAM METZ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a new military offensive in Gaza that's more sweeping than previously announced, declaring in the face of growing condemnation at home and abroad that ...
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday his country would inevitably be drawn "kicking and screaming" into any war over Taiwan due to its proximity to the self-ruled island and the presence of large numbers of Filipino ...
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — London police said Sunday that 532 people were arrested the previous day when supporters of a pro-Palestinian group recently outlawed as a terrorist organization intentionally broke the law to test the government's ability to enforce the ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban are investigating explicit death threats against dozens of Afghan women working for the United Nations, according to a report published Sunday.
In its latest update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, the U.N. mission to the country said that dozens of ...
By FANNY BRODERSEN and SAM McNEIL Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Germany won't authorize any exports of military equipment to Israel that could be used in Gaza "until further notice," Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday, in a strikingly quick response by one of Israel's strongest ...
By DANICA KIRKA and MEG KINNARD Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Friday at a stately home south of London, with the two leaders saying the agenda includes global economics and the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's ...