By JON GAMBRELL and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday celebrated the expected signing of the free trade agreement between the EU and four South American countries the ...
By TOQA EZZIDIN, FATMA KHALED and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The White House released the names of some of the leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza after the Palestinian committee set to govern the territory under U.S. supervision met for the ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military-backed political party extended its lead after the second round of voting, official figures from the country's election body showed Friday, leaving it on track for a parliamentary majority as the country heads into the final phase of its three-stage general ...
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Cubans demonstrated Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the U.S. government release former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. They ...
By STELLA MARTANY and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran's violent crackdown on protests. Members of the National Army ...
