By JEAN-YVES KAMALE AND MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The United States and Congo signed a $1.2 billion health partnership Thursday, the two countries' governments said in a joint statement. The Department of State said it will provide up to $900 million over the ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations on Thursday said would be a first. When the wife of President Donald Trump takes her seat in the president's chair on ...
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities and a civil society group said Thursday that mass graves were found in part of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is making his first trip to India this week in his latest effort to diversify trade away from the United States and restore relations with the world's fourth-largest economy. Carney was set to arrive in ...
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Uruguay and Argentina on Thursday became the first founding members of the Mercosur bloc of South American nations to ratify a long-sought free-trade agreement with the European Union to establish one of the world's largest free-trade zones. The deal has been negotiated ...
By JAMES BROOKS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday called an early general election for March 24 as the country digests the recent standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump over his designs on the ...
