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FILE - In this photo released by the Lebanese Presidency press office, Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, left, meets with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP, File)

Mistrust and fear: The complex story behind strained Syria-Lebanon relations

1:26 AM on Sunday, August 17

Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to treat its smaller neighbor as a sovereign nation

Actor Sebastián Solorza, who has Down syndrome and aims to run for president as an independent candidate, relaxes in his home in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Meet the actor with Down syndrome who wants to run for president of Chile

1:05 AM on Sunday, August 17

Chilean actor Sebastián Solorza is already a household name for many Chileans

FILE - A fruit vendor waits for customers in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Bolivia heads to the polls as its right-wing opposition eyes first victory in decades

12:05 AM on Sunday, August 17

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party

FILE - UNIFIL peacekeepers secure the area in Khardali, southern Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

The Trump administration wants to end the UN peacekeeping in Lebanon. Europe is pushing back

12:05 AM on Sunday, August 17

The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East

A doll adorned with a miniature presidential depicting former President Evo Morales, who is promoting a null vote campaign in the presidential and legislative elections, sits on a shelf in his office during an interview in Lauca N, Chapare region, Bolivia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Blocked from Bolivia's election, ex-leader Morales not sure how to respond to threats of arrest

7:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Evo Morales, Bolivia's former president, has expressed uncertainty about threats from right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they gain power

FILE - First lady Melania Trump, left, watches as President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin welcome each other at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018, prior to Trump's and Putin's one-on-one meeting. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

In letter to Putin, US first lady asks him to consider the children in push to end war in Ukraine

6:35 PM on Saturday, August 16

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska

Members of the District of Columbia National Guard patrol along the National Mall, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington

2:02 PM on Saturday, August 16

Three Republican-led states are deploying hundreds of members of their National Guard to Washington to assist in the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department

President Donald Trump salutes as he walks Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Summit puts Putin back on the global stage and Trump echoes a Kremlin position

12:13 PM on Saturday, August 16

In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump greets Russia's President Vladimir Putin Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump greets Putin with a red carpet. Ukrainians feel betrayed.

11:06 AM on Saturday, August 16

Ukrainians in Kyiv have been shocked by the U.S. welcoming Russian President Vladimir Putin with a red carpet in Alaska

Congo rejects Kenya's diplomatic appointment to conflict-hit Goma

10:18 AM on Saturday, August 16

The Congolese government has rejected Kenya’s appointment of a consul general to Goma, citing a violation of international law

President Donald Trump meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. At left is Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and second from right is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump reverses on the need for a ceasefire before a potential peace deal ending the war in Ukraine

2:48 AM on Saturday, August 16

President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin and now says an overall peace agreement is the next step in ending the war in Ukraine, rather than the ceasefire the American has long championed

Air Canada flight attendants picket at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Government forces Air Canada and flight attendants back to work and into arbitration

1:15 AM on Saturday, August 16

Canada’s government has forced Air Canada and the union representing flight attendants into arbitration after a work stoppage stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world during the peak summer travel season

President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Photos of the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska

4:11 PM on Friday, August 15

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