by SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is renewing internal negotiations over a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela a week after the United States' audacious raid there to detain President Nicolás Maduro. Ministers of ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power — a dream that was fulfilled when the U.S. military whisked the authoritarian leader away. But while Maduro is in jail ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's army chief threatened preemptive military action Wednesday over the "rhetoric" targeting the Islamic Republic, likely referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that if Tehran "violently kills peaceful ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to serve as a mediator to help resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis and ease animosities between the two Koreas. Speaking with reporters ...

By BASSEM MROUE and MOHAMMED ZAATARI Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Israel's air force struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday and early Tuesday, including in the country's third-largest city. A strike around 1 a.m. Tuesday leveled a three-story commercial building ...

By ANDERS KONGSHAUG, CLAUDIA CIOBANU and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President ...