ROME (AP) – Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday, during which the Venezuelan leader asked him to intercede for the release of hundreds of political prisoners held in the Latin American country.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Federal officers fired tear gas Monday to break up a crowd of whistle-blowing bystanders in Minneapolis who showed up to see the aftermath of a car crash involving immigration agents, just a few blocks from where a woman was fatally shot last week.
NUUK, Greenland (AP) – China said Monday that the United States shouldn’t use other countries as a “pretext” to pursue its interests in Greenland and said that its activities in the Arctic comply with international law. The comment by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson came in response to a question at a regular daily briefing.
ATLANTA (AP) – Donald Trump promised in his second inaugural address to fairly apply the law, unlike how he said he’d been treated by federal authorities. “The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end,” he declared on Jan. 20, 2025.
LONDON (AP) – Iran’s leadership is under incredible pressure as the largest protests in years against the Islamic theocracy shake the country. Government hard-liners have threatened to attack the U.S. military and archrival Israel over support for the demonstrators, though for now President Donald Trump says Iran has signaled it wants to negotiate with Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology.
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said she had “a very good conversation” with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday and that their two governments will continue working together on security issues without the need for U.S. intervention against drug cartels.
NARA, Japan (AP) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Japan on Tuesday for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, aiming to improve the sometimes-strained relationship as Tokyo faces a deepening row with China.
BRUSSELS (AP) – President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to seize control of Greenland are straining relations with U.S. allies in NATO and have sparked a warning that doing so by force could spell the end of the world’s biggest security alliance.
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