By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies signed roughly $60 billion in agreements and partnerships with the Iraqi government Friday, including deals intended to create alternative routes for shipping oil out of the Persian Gulf. The ...
By BEN FINLEY, FARNOUSH AMIRI, SAMY MAGDY and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has intensified over control of the Strait of Hormuz, but hopes for a possible diplomatic solution have shown stubborn signs of life. Pakistan's Foreign ...
By JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ, REGINA GARCIA CANO and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands Friday in the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes, citing the scarcity of government rescuers, as the human ...
LONDON (AP) — Much of western Europe has been baking under a "heat dome" this week, with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in many places. The extreme conditions have come in June, earlier in the summer than is usual. Records are tumbling by day and by ...
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo said Friday it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of bearing legal responsibility for more than three decades of violence that has devastated ...
By MUNIR AHMED, ABBY SEWELL, SAMY MAGDY and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — As the U.S. and Iran exchanged escalating strikes on June 11, a plane carrying Qatari mediators was stranded on the tarmac in Tehran. They had been engaged in intensive talks through the ...