PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump made an appearance Saturday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniwho was visiting his Mar-a-Lago club. Meloni follows Argentina President Javier Mileiwho became the first world leader to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his Election Day victory in November. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Prime Minister Viktor […]
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — An American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than three years ago has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained, the State Department said Friday. Marc Fogel, a history teacher from Pennsylvania, is serving a 14-year prison sentence after being arrested in August 2021 at a […]
WASHINGTON — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Mark Burnettthe power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. “With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark […]
TBILISI, Georgia — A former soccer star is set to become president of Georgia on Saturday as the ruling party consolidates its grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country’s European aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia. The ruling Georgian Dream party retained control of Parliament in the South […]
WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden visited Angola last week, one of the highlights was his pledge of hundreds of millions of dollars for an ambitious trans-Africa rail project that would bring copper and cobalt from central Africa to the Atlantic port of Lobito. The project is possible because of the commitment of a $553 […]
MANAMA, Bahrain — At glittering ballrooms in the Mideast this weekend, discussions of the wars and chaos gripping the region gave way to one central question: What’s going to happen when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month? Summits in both Bahrain and Qatar, neighboring Persian Gulf autocracies with a long history of a […]
TBILISI, Georgia — Protesters gathered across Georgia on Saturday night in a third straight night of demonstrations against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union. More than 100 demonstrators were arrested as crowds clashed with police Friday night, the country’s Interior Ministry said. The Associated Press saw protesters in Tbilisi being […]
TBILISI, Georgia — Thousands of demonstrators protesting the Georgian government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union rallied outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi, for a second straight night Friday, surrounded by a heavy police presence. The previous night, police used water cannons, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse protesters who took […]
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia is suspending talks on its bid to join the European Union for four years, its prime minister said Thursday, in view of what he described as “blackmail and manipulation” from some of the bloc’s politicians, an announcement that outraged the opposition and triggered a new wave of protests. The statement by […]
