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US imposes sanctions on a spyware firm behind a tool used to spy on dissidents and journalists
China and Japan, Uneasy Neighbors, Are at Odds Again
North Macedonia's center-right leader given official mandate to form government after election win
Protests in Iran's capital after prince's call for demonstration
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – People in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic.
North Macedonia plan to take tariffs off US goods

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) - North Macedonia announced plans Monday to abolish all import taxes on the United States in the hope of reaching a reciprocal zero-tariff deal with the Trump administration.

Most of Wall Street drifts as defense companies rally

NEW YORK (AP) - Modest moves for Wall Street overall masked big gains underneath the surface, including for makers of weapons and other military equipment. The S&P 500 closed barely changed Thursday, coming off its first loss in four days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.4%.

EU presses North Macedonia to make 'era-defining' decisions for membership

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) - The European Union's top foreign policy official on Friday urged North Macedonia to take "era-defining" decisions to advance its bid for EU membership.

Minnesota shooting videos challenge administration narrative

The federal officer steps in front of the Honda SUV, parked nearly perpendicular across a one-way residential street in Minneapolis, with snow piled up on the curb. Within seconds, he would shoot and kill the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. Federal officials said the officer acted in self-defense, that the driver of the Honda was engaging in "an act of domestic terrorism".

North Macedonia's EU membership stalled by Bulgaria

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) - European Council President António Costa on Thursday called on North Macedonia to change its constitution to include the Bulgarian minority as a way for the country to continue its path toward full European Union membership.

Top Asia Pacific Breaking News: Morning Edition

BEIJING (AP) – They’re at it again. China and Japan – frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate – are freshly at each other’s rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And it’s over the same sticking points that have kept them resentful and suspicious for many decades.

A nation in mourning, North Macedonia holds mass funerals for young victims of nightclub fire

KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) - Funeral services are being held Thursday across North Macedonia for dozens of victims of last weekend's devastating nightclub fire, as grieving communities gather for burials in several cities and towns throughout the country.

Editorials from New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post

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Deadly nightclub blaze leaves North Macedonia in grief and desperate for accountability

KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) - After North Macedonia's deadliest tragedy in recent memory, with dozens dying in a nightclub inferno, the tiny Balkan nation is struggling to grapple with so many young lives lost while trying to hold those responsible to account and prevent another calamity.

Federal immigration officers shoot 2 people in Portland
51 dead and dozens more injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia
Denmark sees Greenland talks with US as 'the dialogue that is needed'