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People walk during strike by the public transportation sector in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, after President Rodrigo Paz announced the end of fuel subsidies. (AP Photo/Freddy Barragan)

Bolivia's largest cities brought to standstill by transportation strike over fuel price hike

10:29 AM on Friday, December 19

Bolivia's largest cities La Paz and Santa Cruz have been brought to a standstill as public transportation workers strike against a 100% fuel price increase ordered by the new government

Polish President Karol Nawrocki, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend an official welcome ceremony before their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

What to know about the EU's new $106 billion loan to Ukraine

8:39 AM on Friday, December 19

European Union leaders have agreed to provide Ukraine with a massive interest-free loan to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years

Bishop Richard Moth speaks during a press conference announcing him as the new Archbishop of Westminster, replacing Cardinal Vincent Nichols as the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, in the Throne Room of Archbishop's House, Westminster, London, Friday Dec. 19, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Pope names new archbishop of Westminster as part of generational shift in English-speaking hierarchy

7:58 AM on Friday, December 19

Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy

Taiwan police cordoned off the scene after a knife attack in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

3 killed in Taiwan knife attack, with the suspect later falling to his death from a department store

7:12 AM on Friday, December 19

Taiwan's national news agency and the city government say a man with a knife and a smoke grenade attacked crowds indiscriminately in Taiwan’s capital

FILE - Palestinian women struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted but Palestinians there still face starvation, experts say

7:01 AM on Friday, December 19

The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip

Polish President Karol Nawrocki, right and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak, during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukrainian and Polish presidents show unity against Russia, address historical tensions

6:22 AM on Friday, December 19

The Ukrainian and Polish presidents have met in Warsaw to emphasize unity against Russia and progress on historical reconciliation

A map of disruption and sabotage staged by Russia, according to Western officials. (AP Digital Embed)

Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility that left houses without water

6:03 AM on Friday, December 19

Danish authorities say Russia carried out cyberattacks against Denmark's infrastructure and websites in 2024 and 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during his annual news conference and call-in show at Gostinny Dvor, in Moscow, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Putin tells his annual news conference that the Kremlin's military goals in Ukraine will be met

4:12 AM on Friday, December 19

President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Moscow’s troops are advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and has voiced confidence that the Kremlin will achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn't agree to Russia’s conditions in peace talks

FILE - Surfers and swimmers head out to the ocean as a tribute following Sunday's shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham,File)

A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre

4:08 AM on Friday, December 19

Thousands of people have returned to Australia's Bondi Beach in the first full day of opening since a mass shooting killed 15 people

FILE - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney pumps his fist as he arrives to deliver remarks at the Liberal caucus holiday party in Ottawa, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada and the US to launch formal talks to review their free trade agreement in mid-January

12:37 AM on Friday, December 19

Canada and the U.S. will start formal discussions on their free trade agreement in mid-January

FILE - A battery production engineer at Nunam assembles a refurbished battery pack, made from used electric vehicle batteries, at their facility in Bengaluru, India, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

India’s push for battery recycling promises jobs, clean energy and mineral security

9:36 PM on Thursday, December 18

Reusing, recycling and repurposing batteries can reduce dependence on hard to obtain critical minerals and create a $9 billion industry, according to energy analysts

From left, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen address a media conference at the EU Summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU leaders agree on 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels

9:10 PM on Thursday, December 18

European Union leaders have agreed to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years

President Donald Trump listens before he signs an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump's blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil raises new questions about legality

6:40 PM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new concerns about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America

Students wave Bulgarian flag as as a swelling crowd of tens of thousands of Bulgarians filled Sofia's central square, demanding the government's resignation amid rising anger over corruption and contested economic policies, Sofia, Bulgaria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgarians protest widespread graft and call for a fair election

2:35 PM on Thursday, December 18

Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets of the capital and other major cities in Bulgaria calling for fair elections and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption

FILE - Wiz Khalifa, a cast member in "Spinning Gold," arrives at the premiere of the film, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Romanian court sentences US rapper Wiz Khalifa to 9 months for drug possession

1:56 PM on Thursday, December 18

A court in Romania has sentenced American rapper Wiz Khalifa to nine months in jail on drug possession charges

FILE - U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, right, Russian presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev, second right, and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, arrive for meetings in Moscow, on Dec. 2, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Kremlin envoy set to visit Miami for talks on US peace plan for Ukraine

10:09 AM on Thursday, December 18

A U.S. official says a Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul answers journalists' questions during the International Conference on the Global Partnership against Online Scams in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)

Thailand conference launches international initiative to fight online scams

8:59 AM on Thursday, December 18

Thailand has helped launch a global effort to fight the spread of online scams that include criminal enterprises based largely in Southeast Asia

Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever, center, speaks with from left, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, Netherland's Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Luc Frieden and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a round table meeting at the EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU talks stall on massive loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets

11:51 PM on Wednesday, December 17

European Union leaders have stalled in talks about providing a massive loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets

Family carry the coffin following a service for Bondi Beach mass shooting victim 10-year-old Matilda, whose last name is being withheld at the request of her family, in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws

10:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration

FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact

7:02 AM on Friday, December 5

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts

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