A general strike ‌by 4 million Spanish workers — around one-fifth of the total workforce — against the country's housing crisis was mostly peaceful Wednesday, unions said, though by the evening clashes erupted in some areas of Barcelona and Madrid. Workers endured stormy weather to set up picket lines, with large marches taking place in Madrid, Barcelona and cities across Spain less than three weeks before a snap general election. In the evening, clashes between police and ‌some protesters erupt

United Nations peacekeepers and South Sudanese authorities failed to take adequate action despite warnings weeks before insurgents raided a village and killed more than 200 people earlier this year, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The rights group said that the peacekeeping mission, known by the acronym UNMISS, knew that an attack on Abiemnom, a remote area near the border with Sudan, was likely but failed to reinforce the roughly three dozen peacekeepers based there un

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called for the world to recognize the environmental impacts of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and asked the Israeli government to grant more aid access to the Palestinian territory. Erdogan was speaking at the U.N. climate summit, known as COP31, in Antalya, Turkey. “What has taken place in Gaza is not only a genocide, but it is also an ecocide,” Erdogan said to applause by world leaders and other climate envoys. A UN-backed panel of independent

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump defended the war against Iran Wednesday at a US Veterans Day commemoration that saw his defense secretary publicly admonished for a lack of decorum. "The bravery and skill of our amazing American warriors has absolutely been incredible," Trump said in an address at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington. "When this conflict is over, and it will be soon, the entire world will be a much safer and better place, more peaceful place, and a pl

South Korea’s generative AI adoption rate reached 40.6 percent in the second quarter, up 3.5 percentage points from the previous quarter, lifting the country four places to 12th globally. It recorded the largest increase among major economies for the third consecutive quarter. Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute measured the share of the working-age population, aged 15 to 64, using AI products. South Korea’s adoption rate rose 15 percentage points from a year earlier. The United Arab Emirates toppe

Nvidia has hired Joon H. Kim, a Korean American former federal prosecutor, to lead an independent investigation into reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang through an extramarital relationship. The company's independent directors said Tuesday they had hired New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, and that its attorney Kim will lead a "thorough and independent" probe into the case. The investigation follows media reports that Huang had a relationship with Alice Hu

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday he was very happy with messages ‌he was getting from the US in terms of moving toward a resolution of the more than 4 1/2-year-old war with Russia. Zelenskyy was addressing journalists after a day of ‌talks with Nordic leaders in Denmark, as a first day of US-led trilateral discussions between Ukraine, Russia and the US wrapped up in Abu Dhabi. "I see changes. I am very happy about what ⁠I hear," Zelenskyy said

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The president of the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that his government is collaborating with El Salvador’s president and providing him with logistics and intelligence as some 2,500 troops from the Central American country battle violent gangs in Haiti. Dominican President Luis Abinader spoke as the operations of the recently deployed Salvadoran troops to Haiti draw scrutiny because they are largely operating outside the framework of a UN-backed, multinational gang

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halting an effort to remove the Pentagon chief for his conduct in office and his handling of the war in Iran. The vote came as Republicans grapple with the fallout from sweeping midterm losses that some in the party have blamed on the war in Iran and the resulting surge in gas prices. But after President Donald Trump signaled strong support for Hegseth, Republican lawmakers largely stoo

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday held their first US-mediated talks in nine months on ending the 4 1/2-year-old war, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling the meeting “very productive” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying the session was “constructive and quite substantive.” Hopes of ending Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II are tempered, however, by the absence of any significant breakthroughs in three previous rounds of talks

Eleven people died in ‌a traffic accident involving dozens of vehicles on both sides of a foggy stretch of highway in eastern Bulgaria on Tuesday, Prime Minister ‌Rumen Radev said. Police, firefighters and ambulance crews rushed to the scene on the A1 road that links the capital Sofia with the eastern city ⁠of Burgas. Images on local media showed cars and trucks piled up across six lanes of highway, many crushed, overturned or veered off ⁠to the side. Fifty injured people were transported to hos

PARIS (AFP) — Canada on Tuesday said it was reimposing sanctions against 11 Iranian companies in the energy and banking sectors for contributing to the Islamic republic's nuclear drive, ballistic missile program or the financing of "malign activities." The companies, which include the National Iranian Oil Co. and leading banks Mellat and Melli, were delisted from Canadian sanctions in 2016. But the measures have now been reimposed "to disrupt Iranian financial networks supporting its nuclear pro

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over," suggesting that — at least for now — he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic and caused reverberations across the global economy. The president made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room after meeting earlier in the day with Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. “Iran mili

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese government agent, but said he doesn’t think the executive who has helped to develop artificial intelligence has a reason to worry. “I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he’ll be in good shape,” Trump said at a White House briefing. The sudden emergence of Huang's infidelity has rocked the political class and Ameri

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — World leaders, delegates and climate activists on Monday kicked off talks in Turkey on curbing climate change, which in the last year has led to rising temperatures and deadly heat waves in Europe and beyond, and played a role in disasters such as the devastating floods in Nepal. This UN climate summit — called the Conference of the Parties, or COP31 — comes as the war in Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, hiking global prices of gasoline, oil and products m