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Trump claims serious trade negotiations to begin with China

By Zeke Miller, Darlene Superville, Associated Press

Trump said his trade negotiators had received two "very good calls" from China Sunday. A spokesman for China's foreign ministry said he didn't know what Trump was talking about.

G-7 leaders push back against Trump at this year’s summit

After a contentious meeting with some of the world's wealthiest democracies last year, President Trump on Sunday made a volley of comments at the 2019 G-7 summit in France, on everything from the trade war with China to Brexit to…

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Palestinian cookbook celebrates a culture without a country

By Pavni Mittal, Hari Sreenivasan

Food writer Yasmin Khan's latest release, "Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen," catalogs 80 Palestinian recipes and delves into the complexities of Palestinian culinary heritage under Israeli occupation. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Khan about her travels through Israel, the West…

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Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

By Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Michael Gavin, The Conversation

Collectively, human beings speak more than 7,000 distinct languages, and these languages are not uniformly distributed across the planet.

Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

By Angela Charlton, Elaine Ganley, Associated Press

Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of kissing, dancing, tears and gratitude.

Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, U.S. tensions

By Jon Gambrell, Josef Federman, Zeina Karam, Associated Press

From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

Best G-7 can do for global economy: just don’t make it worse

By David McHugh, Associated Press

The global economy craves a double shot of confidence right now but the best that leaders of the Group of Seven can offer is a less intoxicating cocktail: not making things worse.

Hong Kong police draw guns in latest protest violence

By Kelvin Chan, Kin Cheung, Associated Press

Police in Hong Kong drew their guns Sunday night after a small group of protesters attacked officers with sticks and rods, and used tear gas to clear pro-democracy demonstrators who had taken over a street.

G-7 summit in France a test of unity among world leaders

By Lori Hinnant, David McHugh, Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

Efforts to salvage consensus among the G-7 rich democracies frayed Saturday in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's unpredictable America-first approach even before the official start of the summit in southern France.

Brazil military begins operations to fight Amazon fires

By Marcelo Silva de Sousa, Associated Press

Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday prepared to deploy in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry.