May 23, 2017 White House press association gets German free speech award German broadcaster Deutsche Welle says it is giving its annual freedom of speech award to the White House Correspondents' Association for "holding U.S. leadership accountable." The public broadcaster said Wednesday that WHCA president Jeff Mason will be presented with the award in Bonn, Germany on June 19.
May 23, 2017 North Korean confirms detention of American citizen North Korea has confirmed the detention of an American citizen for alleged acts of hostility aimed at overthrowing the country.
May 23, 2017 Afghan officials: Suicide attack on convoy kills at least 4 Afghan officials say that at least four people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the capital Kabul.
May 23, 2017 US warns Venezuela with sanctions over Maduro's call to rewrite constitution The Trump administration is warning that it might impose more sanctions on Venezuelan officials over President Nicolas Maduro's push to rewrite the constitution amid an escalating political crisis with near-daily demonstrations calling for his ouster.
May 23, 2017 US warns on sanctions over Venezuela's move on constitution The Trump administration is warning that it might impose more sanctions on Venezuelan officials over President Nicolas Maduro's push to rewrite the constitution amid an escalating political crisis with near-daily demonstrations calling for his ouster.
May 23, 2017 Haiti's main international airport flooded by downpour The terminal at the Haitian capital's international airport has been flooded after a sustained downpour transformed some low-lying Port-au-Prince streets into brown rivers.
May 23, 2017 Bodies of missing US-Canadian couple found in Belize Authorities in Belize say the bodies of an American man and a Canadian woman have been found nearly a week after the couple went missing.
May 23, 2017 Press group: Mexico among most risky places for reporters A report by a journalism watchdog group underlines that Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, a place where the few cases in which killers go to jail have not made a dent in such violence.
May 23, 2017 AP News Guide: How did things get so bad in Venezuela? After years of steady economic decline, Venezuela is in the grips of the deepest crisis of its recent history.
May 23, 2017 At White House, Abbas to ask Trump to back Arab peace plan Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' initial relief over having been invited to the White House is now clouded by concerns he might have to say no to President Donald Trump on a key issue in their first meeting Wednesday.
