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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively “frozen” by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday. He and another officials with the group accused Ankara of failing to enact legal and political reforms needed to move the process forward, contradicting recent optimistic statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Murat Karayilan, a co-founder of the Kurdistan […]

CAIRO (AP) — A boat carrying 33 Sudanese migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk, leaving at least 17 people dead and nine others missing, U.N. officials said Thursday. Only seven of the people on board survived the shipwreck, the U.N. refugee agency said on X. It was unclear when the boat capsized. The U.N. International Organization for Migration, or IOM, said that when […]

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Congress on Thursday reduced former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence, a move that will likely be appealed to the country’s Supreme Court. It’s unclear how much time Bolsonaro would serve for his conviction for leading a coup attempt, but analysts say the move could shave 20 years off his sentence. The former president, who began serving it in November, is currently under house arrest. […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine workers protested in the capital of Buenos Aires on Thursday, as annual May Day demonstrations in the South American nation coincided with smoldering anger over President Javier Milei’s recent overhaul of long-robust labor protections. The General Confederation of Labor, or CGT, Argentina’s largest union group, called the march to “defend decent employment” against Milei’s changes to the labor code, which since 1974 had guaranteed […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ericka Buensuceso was walking along Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday when she came across an alien, two hot dogs and Jesus. The motley costumed crew was banding together with several others, united by the common goal of breaking into the nearby Church of Scientology information center and running through as much of it as possible. Buensuceso was witnessing “Scientology speedrunning” in real time, a familiar social media […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he is removing certain tariffs on Scotch whisky after this week’s White House visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom. “The King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking!” Trump posted on social media. Trump said people had wanted this change, especially with regard to the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, has said he wants to bring “regime change” to the central bank, but if confirmed by the Senate he will find a Fed already transformed by the White House’s attacks. For the first in almost five decades, there will be a former chair on the central bank’s board, potentially creating an alternate center of power. And on […]

MILAN (AP) — The international jury of the Venice Biennale resigned Thursday, just days before the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair opens. No reason was given, but the move came as Italy’s government opposed Russia’s participation. The Biennale said in a statement that the jury, made up of the president, Solange Farkas, and Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, Giovanna Zapperi, had resigned. It didn’t provide […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seeking details of a short-term ceasefire Russia proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump, he said in a post on Telegram on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a May 9 ceasefire to coincide with Victory Day in Russia in a phone call with Trump the previous day, according to the Kremlin. “We have instructed our representatives to contact the United States […]