French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal Monday, in the wake of a chaotic election result that left neither left, right, nor center with a majority in the National Assembly. A broad left-leaning coalition, the New Popular Front, took the most seats in Sunday’s runoff but fell short of a
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico took his first trip outside the capital on Monday since resuming his duties after an assassination attempt . Fico visited a farm in Slovenska Nova Ves, northeast of the capital of Bratislava, along with agriculture minister Richard Takáč to check the grain harvest. Fico said
BANGKOK (AP) — One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic minority groups battling the military government said it captured an airport serving the country’s top world-class beach resort, marking the first time resistance forces have seized such a facility. Residents of the area in the southern part of the western state of Rakhine , along with
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two years after the U.S. Forest Service sparked what would become the largest and most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history, independent investigators say there are gaps that need to be addressed if the agency is to be successful at using prescribed fire as a tool to reduce risk amid
A New Mexico judge is setting the table for the involuntary manslaughter trial of actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer will consider an array of requests from prosecutors and defense attorneys that could restrict what evidence, testimony and court arguments
BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after marijuana was decriminalized in Thailand, nearly a hundred of its advocates marched to the prime minister’s office Monday to protest a possible ban on general use. A health ministry drug control committee approved Friday a proposal to relist cannabis as a narcotic to be only allowed for medical and
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday and discussed Russia’s continuing attacks on Ukraine and further support from NATO on the eve of a summit marking the Western defense alliance’s 75th anniversary. Zelenskyy stopped in Warsaw en route to the NATO summit in Washington, which
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Several officials in the Middle East and the U.S. believe the level of devastation in the Gaza Strip caused by a nine-month Israeli offensive likely has helped push Hamas to soften its demands for a cease-fire agreement. Hamas over the weekend appeared to drop its longstanding demand that Israel
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Japan and the Philippines are signing a key defense pact Monday that would allow the deployment of Japanese forces for joint military exercises, including live-fire drills, to the Southeast Asian nation that came under brutal Japanese occupation in World War II but is now building an alliance with Tokyo as they
Demonstrations called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and urged a cease-fire that could bring back hostages still being held by Hamas militants. Sunday’s “Day of Disruption” started at 6:29 AM, the moment that militants launched the first rockets toward Israel on October 7. (AP Video by Ami Bentov and Shlomo Mor) Demonstrations
