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United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, left, shakes hand with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Government of India Press Information Bureau via AP)

Gabbard says Trump is committed to ensuring peace and security through 'realism and pragmatism'

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump is committed to ensuring peace and security through “realism and pragmatism,” in remarks Tuesday before the U.S. … more

By SHEIKH SAALIQ | 3/18/25

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense released rare videos and photos taken March 17 of military drills conducted by China’s Navy. The videos included a close look at Chinese Navy’s Jingzhou 532, Wenzhou frigate 526, type 056A corvette 616 and type 052D Guilin 164.

China conducts air and sea drills near Taiwan, blaming recent statements by US and Taiwanese leaders

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says an unusually large number of Chinese military ships, planes and drones entered airspace and waters surrounding the self-governing island republic between Sunday and … more

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | 3/18/25

FILE - Peruvian President Dina Boluarte speaks to the press during a visit by Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia at the government palace in Lima, Peru, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

Peru declares emergency amid surge of violence and deploys the army in the capital

Peru's president declared a state of emergency in the capital and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help police address a surge of violence, amid widespread outcry a day after the killing of a … more

3/18/25

People take part in a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 9, 2025, demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

How many hostages are left in Gaza?

Israel unleashed a new wave of strikes on Gaza, ending a break in fighting during which 33 Israeli hostages were returned in return for the release of nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli … more

By The Associated Press | 3/17/25

People displaced by gang violence take refuge at a Mormon church converted into a shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Gunmen attack convoy evacuating medical staff after aid group in Haiti temporarily shutters hospital

Doctors Without Borders says that four of its vehicles came under fire while they evacuated staff from a hospital in Haiti’s capital as gang violence surges. The aid organization said Monday the … more

3/17/25

Palestinians Ali Marouf and his mother Aisha cook on fire on the roof of their destroyed house by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel launches new strikes against Hamas and promises ‘increasing military force’ after talks stall

Israel launched new strikes against Hamas and promised ‘increasing military force’ after talks on on further hostage releases stalled. Early Friday morning, Israel’s Prime Minister’s office … more

By WAFAA SHURAFA | 3/17/25

FILE - Britain's King Charles III waves as he arrives for a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

King Charles III plans to meet Pope Francis during Vatican state visit

King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, suggesting the Holy See is optimistic the pontiff will be back at work by then. The … more

By DANICA KIRKA | 3/17/25

Military personnel search for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Monday, March. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Francesco Spotorno)

Search for US student in Dominican Republic intensifies

The search for a U.S. college student who went missing in the Dominican Republic intensified on Monday after a man questioned by authorities visited the beach where she was last seen and spoke with … more

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA | 3/17/25

FILE - The Statue of Liberty is seen from the Staten Island Ferry, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, file)

From France comes a call for Trump's America to return Lady Liberty. Here's why it won't happen

A French politician has suggested the U.S. is no longer worthy of keeping the Statue of Liberty. A member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party, Raphaël Glucksmann's … more

3/17/25

FILE - Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu’s push to fire Israel's domestic security chief sparks an uproar

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s has fired or forced out a string of top officials since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza. The country’s domestic … more

By TIA GOLDENBERG | 3/17/25

FILE- This undated handout issued by Cheshire Constabulary shows of nurse Lucy Letby. (Cheshire Constabulary via AP, file)

Lawyers who say British nurse was wrongly convicted of killing babies ask to halt hospital inquiry

Lawyers for convicted baby killer Lucy Letby and former executives at the hospital where she worked have asked a judge to halt an inquiry into the deaths after a panel of medical experts found no … more

By BRIAN MELLEY | 3/17/25

FILE - Members and supporters of Hungary's LGBTQ community march through Budapest, amid an increasingly hostile environment for sexual minorities led by the country's right-wing government, on Saturday, July 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi, file)

A new anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary would ban Pride event and allow use of facial recognition software

Hungary’s ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community. Members on Monday submitted a bill to parliament that would ban the popular Budapest Pride event and … more

By JUSTIN SPIKE | 3/17/25

Firemen work at the site of an Israeli missile strike in Damascus, Syria, Thursday March 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syria is joining a donor conference for the first time in a crucial step for its new leaders

The European Union is hosting a donor conference to garner support for a peaceful transition in Syria following the ouster of President Bashar Assad in December. Ministers and officials from Western … more

By LORNE COOK and ABBY SEWELL | 3/17/25

Jhoan Bastidas gives an interview at his father's house in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, after being deported from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. (AP Photo/Juan Arraez)

After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the US adjusts to his homeland

Jhoan Bastidas is just starting to make sense of it all. How he is back in the once-prosperous hometown in Venezuela that he left as a teenager. How tattoos on his chest earned him a criminal … more

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GISELA SALOMON | 3/17/25

Rusli Paraili, a crocodile handler, feeds a rescued crocodile kept inside an enclosure in Budong-Budong, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Crocodile attacks in Indonesia are on the rise. It's left residents on edge

In the Central Mamuju district of Indonesia’s West Sulawesi, where the Budong-Budong River meets the sea, people have long feared crocodiles. There were nearly 180 recorded crocodile attack victims … more

By EDNA TARIGAN and DITA ALANGKARA | 3/16/25

Protesters march during a major rally against populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government, in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian officials deny illegal sonic weapon attack on peaceful protesters

Serbian officials are denying that security forces illegally used a military-grade sonic weapon to disperse and scare protesters at a huge anti-government rally. Opposition officials and Serbian … more

3/16/25

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro gestures to the crowd upon arriving at a rally on Copacabana Beach in support of a proposed bill to grant amnesty to those arrested for storming government buildings in an alleged coup attempt in 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Supporters of Brazil’s Bolsonaro protest on Copacabana Beach to defend him after coup charges

Thousands of backers of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro have poured onto Copacabana Beach to express their support for the far-right politician as he faces charges of plotting a coup. … more

By ELÉONORE HUGHES | 3/16/25

Family members hold pictures of their relatives who disappeared in the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war, during a protest calling on the interim government to not give up on efforts to find them, in the city of Daraa, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Families of Syrians who disappeared during its civil war say the search must go on

Family members of Syrians who disappeared in the 14-year civil war have called on the newly installed interim government to not give up on efforts to find them. The United Nations in 2021 estimated … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and GHAITH ALSAYED | 3/16/25

Prime Minister Mark Carney following a swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday, March 14, 2025. (Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press via AP)

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks alliances in Europe as he deals with Trump

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London to seek alliances as he deals U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy. Carney is purposely … more

By ROB GILLIES | 3/16/25

This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Iran denies aiding Yemen's Houthi rebels after US strikes and threat from Trump

Iran has once again denied aiding Yemen’s Houthi rebels after the United States launched a wave of airstrikes against them. President Donald Trump warned that Tehran would be held “fully … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 3/16/25