Peru orders arrest of ex-prime minister under Mexico asylum in Lima
LIMA – A Peruvian Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered the arrest and five-month preventive detention of former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chavez, who is currently under asylum at the…
Berlin, Paris push companies for fighter jet agreement by mid-December
PARIS/BERLIN – Germany and France are piling pressure on industrial leaders to find a solution for the troubled joint fighter jet project FCAS – or SCAF – by mid-December, two…
Nigerian court jails separatist leader Kanu for life over terrorism
ABUJA – A Nigerian court on Thursday sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on all seven terrorism-related charges at the end of a decade-long…
Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teens in escalating West Bank violence
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers during an overnight raid on a town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, residents said, as violence surges in the territory…
Islamic State-linked rebels kill 89 civilians in east Congo attacks, UN force says
KINSHASA – Islamic State-linked rebels have killed 89 civilians in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lubero territory, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African country, known…
Explainer-US peace plan contains unpalatable proposals for both Ukraine and Russia
MOSCOW – The United States has drafted a 28-point peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine which is being studied by Kyiv, Moscow and interested countries in Europe. Read…
Three decades after peace deal, Bosnia still struggles with division
SARAJEVO/BRCKO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Franjo Sola remembers November 21, 1995, as the best day of his life, when a U.S.-brokered peace deal ended war in Bosnia and allowed him…
Kremlin says US has yet to discuss its Ukraine peace plan in detail with Moscow
MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia had not yet received anything official from the United States about a 28-point U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, but it was…
Delays, setbacks loom over Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative is facing significant delays, hampered by the 43-day government shutdown and lack of a clear plan to spend the first…
Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teens in escalating West Bank violence
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers during an overnight raid on a town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, residents said, as violence surges in the territory…