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Venezuela's opposition is holding primary to pick challenger for Maduro in 2024 presidential rival 10/21/2023 12:09pm • VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) ��� Josselyz Essa and a friend, two 9-year-olds with a budding interest in politics as Venezuela starts toward its next presidential election, bubbled with eagerness waiting for the campaign rally to start. Then a thunderous noise spread over the crowd in the streets of the Swiss elect their parliament on Sunday with worries about environment and migration high in minds 10/21/2023 11:40am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Swiss voters this weekend elect a parliament that could reshape Switzerland���s executive branch at a time when key concerns include migration, rising health care costs and climate change, which has shrunk the country's Alpine glaciers. Final ballots will be collected Sunday morning Americans' faith in institutions has been sliding for years. The chaos in Congress isn't helping 10/21/2023 08:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country's core institutions. The lack of faith extends beyond Congress, Thousands in Muslim countries and beyond demonstrate over Israeli airstrikes 10/20/2023 08:16pm • Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond held demonstrations Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They called for an end to Israel's blockade and airstrikes following a brutal incursion into southern Israel by fighters from the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza. Dem Central America scrambles as the international community fails to find solution to record migration 10/20/2023 11:16am • PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica (AP) ��� The fleet of buses roared past the Panama-Costa Rica border. Hundreds of Venezuelan, Haitian and Ecuadorian migrants pressed their faces to the windows as they looked out onto a sign that read ���Welcome to Costa Rica.��� But few of them will see more of the country 'Drop in the ocean': UN-backed aid could soon enter Gaza from Egypt, but only at a trickle for now 10/19/2023 05:00pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� President Joe Biden says he struck a deal with his Egyptian counterpart to allow a first run of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, which Israel sealed off after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. Israel says it's now ready to honor Biden's request to let in limited humanitar How China's Belt and Road Initiative is changing after a decade of big projects and big debts 10/17/2023 05:29pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China's Belt and Road Initiative looks to become smaller and greener after a decade of big projects that boosted trade but left big debts and raised environmental concerns. The shift comes as leaders from across the developing world descend on Beijing this week for a government-orga Donald Trump is going back to court. Here���s what he's missed since his last visit to NYC fraud trial 10/16/2023 05:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump will be back in court Tuesday for his New York civil fraud trial, but a face-to-face showdown with former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will have to wait. Cohen, a key witness in the state���s case against the former president, postponed his testimony, saying he neede Golfers in Bethesda explore how playing can help veterans heal from PTSD 10/16/2023 03:30pm • While professional golfers with the PGA often take to the links at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, a different type of golfer ruled the course Monday morning. Veterans attempted to lure other former military men and women to the game to help their mental health and combat PTSD. Live updates | Day 9 of the latest Israel-Hamas war 10/15/2023 09:48pm • Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents sought to heed Israel���s order to evacuate roughly the northern half of the territory, while others huddled at hospitals in the north on Sunday. Gaza���s 2.3 million civilians faced a deepening struggle for food, water and safety, and braced for a looming inv While the world is watching Gaza, violence fuels growing tensions in the occupied West Bank 10/14/2023 12:55pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� While the world is focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 55 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and attacks by Jewish settlers. U.N. monitors said it was the deadliest week for Palestin Poland prepares to vote in a high-stakes national election with foreign ties and democracy at stake 10/14/2023 05:59am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Poland is holding an election Sunday that many view as its most important one since the 1989 vote that toppled communism. At stake are the health of the nation's democracy, its legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country on NATO's easter Live updates | Day 7 of the latest Israel-Hamas war 10/13/2023 09:30pm • Israel���s military ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate Friday ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive. The directive came on the heels of what the United Nations said was a warning it received from Israel to evacuate 1.1 million people living in northern Gaz Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 10/13/2023 01:03pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov EU warns China that European public could turn more protectionist if trade deficit isn't reduced 10/13/2023 10:58am • BEIJING (AP) ��� The European Union's top foreign policy official warned Friday that public sentiment in Europe could turn more protectionist if the region's trade deficit with China is not reduced. Josep Borrell, the EU high representative for foreign affairs, called for improved access for Europea