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By EDNA TARIGAN, DITA ALANGKARA and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press SIMBORO, Indonesia (AP) — Tucked between the village and the forest, Haruna and his father-in-law worked diligently through the night distilling dried patchouli plants, stoking the boiler with firewood, drops of fragrant patchouli oil trickling into plastic bottles. A sense of satisfaction washed over them

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australians will go to the polls on May 3 for general elections with high costs of living and a shortage of housing likely weighing against the government as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ‘s center-left Labor Party seeks a second three-year term. Albanese drove to Governor-General Sam

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III was briefly hospitalized for observation on Thursday after experiencing “temporary side effects’’ related to a scheduled cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. His engagements for Thursday afternoon and Friday were canceled. “His majesty has now returned to Clarence House and as a

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that he would speak with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days after Trump announced 25% tariffs on auto imports. Carney, who hasn’t spoken with Trump since becoming Canada’s new leader nearly two weeks ago, said that the U.S.

By DAVID McHUGH, LORNE COOK, AAMER MADHANI and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Whatever the U.S. gains from President Donald Trump’s 25% tax on imported cars – and experts are skeptical – automakers around the world are bracing for a lot of pain. In Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada and across Europe,

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Greenlandic lawmakers on Thursday agreed to form a new government, banding together to resist U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to annex the Arctic island, local media reported. Four of the five parties elected to Greenland’s parliament earlier this month have agreed to form a coalition that will

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites was back in the headlines in South Africa and the subject of

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s push for control over Greenland wasn’t surprising given longtime U.S. interest in the mineral-rich territory. Speaking at a policy forum in the Artic port of Murmansk, Putin noted that the United States first considered plans to win

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago, a symptom of climate change that will have repercussions globally, scientists said Thursday. The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTÁ (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited Colombia on Thursday as part of a tour of three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation. Her trip comes amid a souring in relations between the Trump administration and the Colombian government – long the United States’

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people — including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland — in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street, Dutch police said. The attack lasted several minutes before the assailant was stopped by a passerby near the

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year prison sentence and a 300,000-euro (around $325,000) fine for former President Nicolas Sarkozy, in connection with allegations that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally financed by former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s government. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, known by its French acronym PNF, also called

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prince Harry’s surprising resignation from an African charity he co-founded in memory of his mother, Princess Diana, came this week amid allegations of bullying, harassment, sexism and racism made by the organization’s chairperson against unnamed board members. Harry announced his resignation in a joint

By SAMY MAGDY and FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the provincial governor said. The remaining tourists, more than two dozen of whom

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris’ public prosecutor on Thursday requested that French actor Gérard Depardieu be found guilty and given a 18-month suspended prison sentence on the last day of a trial over accusations that he sexually assaulted two women who were working on a film with him. The actor, 76,

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains. “This will continue to spur growth,” Trump told reporters Wednesday.

By JOHN LEICESTER, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France and Britain will continue to forge ahead with plans to deploy troops in Ukraine to defend an eventual peace deal with Russia but only some other nations want to take part, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday after a summit of

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed a key part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary, angering critics who view it as a power grab by his far-right government. The planned overhaul sparked mass demonstrations in 2023, leaving the country deeply divided before Hamas’ Oct.

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has given an initial approval for the energy-rich Mideast nation of Qatar to buy eight armed MQ-9B Predator drones for its military, an estimated purchase worth nearly $2 billion. The State Department approval announced early Thursday for Qatar comes after Doha

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities arrested an Argentinian woman and a British man for allegedly smuggling cocaine on the tourist island of Bali, officials said Thursday. The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad. An intelligence tip led officers from the National Narcotics Agency

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva swiped Thursday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to raise U.S. tariffs on a wide range of products, saying Trump should consider the potential harm to the American and global economies. Lula made the comments while wrapping up a 4-day

By The Associated Press A family of six and a Hamas spokesman were killed in separate Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday, according to the territory’s Health Ministry and another Hamas official. In Israel, the parliament passed a key part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary,

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup after the far-right leader lost the 2022 election. The panel will review existing evidence,

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said Thursday a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a day earlier. The party’s deputy chairperson, Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, said in a statement that the agreement “has been

By ROBERT BADENDIECK and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Police used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital early Thursday, the latest clash in the country’s biggest anti-government protests in over a decade. The demonstrations began last week following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key

BEIJING (AP) — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot began a two-day visit to China on Thursday and held talks with his Chinese counterpart on Ukraine and longstanding trade disputes between China and Europe. There was no word of any immediate progress, but both sides sounded positive on the state of relations. Barrot met with Chinese

By YONG JUN CHANG, HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press CHEONGSONG, South Korea (AP) — Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country’s worst-ever wildfires, which have killed 28 people, forced at least 37,800 to flee their homes and destroyed thousands of

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea sent around 3,000 additional troops to Russia in January and February in continued support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, South Korea’s military said Thursday in its latest assessment. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea has also been

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The taste of banh te — a steamed rice cake with an enticing filling of mushrooms and minced pork — captures the quintessence of northern Vietnamese cuisine: Humble ingredients, prepared perfectly and often enjoyed with a funky fish sauce dip. This balance of flavors is what

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: Stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making fish sauce, or join the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing his country for a