US denies pushing Russian 'wish list'

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Washington insisted Saturday that its Ukraine proposal is indeed official US policy, denying claims by a group of senators that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them the document under discussion is just a Russian "wish list." The dispute over the 28-point plan -- which cedes Ukrainian territory long sought by Moscow -- threw an extraordinary element of confusion into efforts to negotiate an end to the war. US President Donald Trump has pushed the plan, pressuring the Ukra

Nov. 23, 2025

Trump and Mamdani go from adversaries to allies after White House meeting

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Friday met the man who had proudly proclaimed himself “Donald Trump's worst nightmare,” but he seemed to find the opposite. The Republican president and New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani were warm and friendly, speaking repeatedly of their shared goals to help Trump's hometown rather than their combustible differences. Trump, who had in the past called Mamdani a "100 percent Communist Lunatic" and a “total nut job," spoke openly of how impr

Nov. 23, 2025

Trump taps Jack Nicklaus to fix courses at Joint Base Andrews

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews — adding a site long known as the “president’s golf course” to his long list of construction projects. The president took an aerial tour of the Courses at Andrews aboard Marine One on Saturday, and promised, “We’re going to do some work” there, as well as to other parts of the base. “We’re doing some fix-up of the base, which it needs. We’re gonna

Nov. 23, 2025

Red Cross slashes 2026 budget, to shed 2,900 jobs

GENEVA -- The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday it was cutting its 2026 budget by 17 percent amid declining donor contributions, and would slash thousands of jobs. The ICRC said "a challenging financial environment in the humanitarian sector" had led its assembly to approve a 2026 budget of 1.8 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) -- down 17 percent compared to this year. The organisation warned the cuts were coming at a time when the numbers of conflicts worldwide and the need

Nov. 21, 2025

Top Ukraine security official denies accepting terms of Trump's peace plan

KYIV/WASHINGTON -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's top security official denied on Friday he had agreed to a Trump administration peace plan, and European leaders hastily sought a response to a draft that endorses most of Russia's key wartime demands. Washington has presented Kyiv with a 28-point plan that would require Kyiv to give up additional territory, scale back the size of its military and forever abandon hope of joining the NATO western military alliance. Ukraine's European all

Nov. 21, 2025

Ukraine expected to give up land, some arms under US peace plan, sources say

The US has signaled to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukraine must accept a US-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory and some weapons, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The sources, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the proposals included cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, among other things. Washington wants Kyiv to accept the main points, they said. Such a plan would repr

Nov. 20, 2025

Trump: Allowing skilled immigrants is MAGA

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump has made hard-line immigration policies a signature issue, but acknowledged on Wednesday that he's been criticized for recently saying some skilled immigrants should be allowed into the country from his “Make America Great Again” supporters. Trump told an audience of business executives that the US needs immigrants who can train domestic workers in high-tech factories — and insisted that doing so is not inconsistent with his core political beliefs. “I

Nov. 20, 2025

Guterres and Lula push negotiators at COP30 as deadline looms

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Two global power players pushed negotiators on Wednesday to find compromises at UN climate talks in Brazil’s Belem, where a self-imposed deadline is rushing up fast. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived at the COP30 talks to take a hand, in what some attendees hoped could signal progress by day's end. Lula's tentative schedule included meetings with negotiators for the EU, emerging nations in Latin America, the Middl

Nov. 20, 2025

Explosive weapons killed most children on record in 2024: NGO

LONDON (AFP) -- Explosive weapons killed or injured children at record levels last year, as wars increasingly move into urban areas, Save the Children said in a report published Thursday. Nearly 12,000 children were killed or injured in conflict last year worldwide, said the UK-based charity, citing UN figures. This was the highest number since records began in 2006, and was up by 42 percent on the 2020 total. Previously, children in war zones were more likely to die from malnutrition, disease o

Nov. 20, 2025

Israel's military carries out strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of people

SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — The Israeli military carried out barrages of airstrikes in southern Lebanon Wednesday on what it said were Hezbollah sites, including weapons storage facilities, after a drone strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded several others, including students on a bus. The new wave of strikes came a day after an airstrike killed 13 people in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, the deadliest of Israeli attacks on Lebanon since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezb

Nov. 20, 2025

[Graphic News] Spain tops Korean travel satisfaction

Spain has claimed the top spot in overseas travel satisfaction among Korean travelers for the first time, overtaking Switzerland, which had held the position for the past four years. Southern European countries performed strongly, while Central and Western European destinations such as Switzerland saw a decline. Meanwhile, Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic and Croatia are emerging as new favorites. According to the travel research institute ConsumerInsight, based on a survey con

Nov. 20, 2025

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejects Trump's offer of military intervention against cartels

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president on Tuesday ruled out allowing US strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to stop drugs entering the US. “It’s not going to happen,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said. “He (Trump) has suggested it on various occasions or he has said, ‘we offer you a United States military intervention in Mexico, whatever you need to fight the criminal groups,’” she said. “But I have told him on

Nov. 19, 2025

One of 25 abducted students in Nigeria escapes as search continues for missing girls

A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school's principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students in forests close to the school. The girls were kidnapped before dawn on Monday, when gunmen attacked the dorm at the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Kebbi state's Maga town. Local police said the gunmen scaled the fence to enter the sch

Nov. 19, 2025

Trump says visiting Saudi crown prince knew nothing about Khashoggi killing, contradicting US intel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defense of the visiting Saudi crown prince that contradicted a US intelligence assessment. The controversy over the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and US-based critic of the Saudi leadership, flared again in the Oval Office in front of cameras as the kingdom's de facto ruler made his firs

Nov. 19, 2025

US Congress approves release of Epstein files

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition. Two days after Trump's abrupt about-face, the House of Representatives passed the measure with a vote of 427-1, sending a resolution requiring the release of all unclassified records on Epstein to the Republican-maj

Nov. 19, 2025