By MATTHEW LEE and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries showed divisions with the United States over the Iran war but agreed Friday during a meeting in France to call for an immediate halt to attacks against ...

By SAMY MAGDY, AAMER MADHANI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed a missile launch toward Israel early Saturday, their first since the war in the Middle East started. The Israeli military said it intercepted the ...

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, JON GAMBRELL and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel's military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel early Saturday, the first time it had faced fire from that country. The Iranian-backed Houthi ...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has listed five objectives that the U.S. wants to achieve before ending its war with Iran. Now, one month into the conflict, he has suggested the U.S. may soon be "winding down" the operation, even though some ...

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian missile attack Friday wounded at least 10 U.S. service members and damaged several planes at a military base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the situation. Two of the troops were seriously ...

By EMMA BURROWS AP European Security Correspondent LONDON (AP) — Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. and European officials told The Associated ...

By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel threatened to "escalate and expand" its attacks on Iran on Friday even as U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that talks on ending the war were going well and gave Tehran more time to open the ...

By MUNIR AHMED and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — As fears of a wider regional conflict escalate following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that began in late February, Pakistan has emerged as an unexpected mediator, offering to help bring Washington and Tehran to ...

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ALLAN OLINGO Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Farmers around the world are feeling the squeeze of the Iran war. Gas prices have shot up and fertilizer supplies are waning due to Tehran's near shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. and ...

By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States appeared at an impasse Thursday, hardening their positions over ceasefire talks and setting the stage for another potential escalation in the Middle East war as thousands more ...

By DAVID McHUGH and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Iran appears to be setting itself up as the gatekeeper for the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important artery for oil shipments. The move could cement Tehran's de facto chokehold over the crucial waterway and ...

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los ...

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration's latest policy of deporting immigrants to "third ...

By JON GAMBRELL, MIKE CORDER, MUNIR AHMED and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including strikes that hit a fuel ...

Associated Press undefined DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Iran with devastating attacks unless it accepts a 15-point White House peace plan, possibly through indirect talks brokered by Pakistan. Pakistan's top diplomat confirmed those ...

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press CANTERBURY, England (AP) — The new archbishop of Canterbury knocked three times on the doors of the city's great cathedral on Wednesday, ceremonially demanding to be allowed inside in a tradition laid down over centuries by each new leader of the Church of ...

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Samara Martínez has written countless letters to the illness that weakens her body. "Dear cursed one," the Mexican activist once wrote. "I hate you because you have taken things away from me, but I love you because you have ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British political parties will be banned from accepting donations in cryptocurrencies, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Wednesday, saying illicit finance poses a "stark" danger to the country's democracy. Starmer told lawmakers that "we ...

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Forensic experts in Colombia worked Wednesday to identify the remains of 69 security forces killed in a military transport plane crash in the country's southwest, while authorities investigated the cause of the accident. Alfridis ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez preached of lucrative long-term opportunities in her resource-rich country at a Saudi-backed investment summit on Wednesday, offering a window into how Venezuela's government is ...