By HUIZHONG WU and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China and France pledged deeper cooperation on global issues like the war in Ukraine and trade, as France prepares to take on the presidency of the Group of Seven next year. French President Emmanuel Macron met with China's ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico's Congress on Wednesday to protest a new national water law that imposes stricter controls on water use. The farmers amassed outside the congressional chamber to protest ...

By LORNE COOK and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday revealed details of its plan to use billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's needs over the next two years, but Belgium rejected the scheme and insisted that it poses major ...

By FATMA KHALED and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel said Wednesday that it would reopen the Rafah border crossing in the coming days, allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza. That could be a major development for residents of the devastated strip, for whom leaving has been ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Senate on Wednesday selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal adviser to President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the country's next attorney general. The appointment came after Alejandro Gertz Manero stepped down last week. Godoy had been filling in on an interim basis ...

By NAYARA BATSCHKE and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast. A rare confluence of ...