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Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century.

 

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A Cuban exiles’ group is at the heart of Raúl Castro’s indictment over a 1996 shootdown

A group founded by Cuban exiles known as Brothers to the Rescue is at the center of the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to seek an indictment against Cuban leader Raúl Castro.

 

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A Cuban exiles’ group is at the heart of DOJ’s push to indict Raúl Castro over a 1996 shootdown

A group founded by Cuban exiles known as Brothers to the Rescue is at the center of the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to seek an indictment against Cuban leader Raúl Castro.

 

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A small but growing movement wants you to put down your phone. But first read this

Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but intensely passionate movement is rebelling against the omnipresent screen.

 

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Longtime AP reporter and editor Bill Mann dies at 83

Bill Mann, a reporter and editor who covered the Philippines, Egypt, India, Scandinavia and Washington, D.C. over a nearly 50-year career at The Associated Press, died Thursday in Reston, Virginia.

 

Venezuelans in the US are torn between joy and worry after ousting of Maduro

For thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S., the days since the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have brought a mixture of joy and trepidation.

 

Sure, the newspaper informed. But as it fades, those who used it for other things must adjust, too

The lurch in the media business has changed America over the last two decades. Experts agree democracy is different.

 

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At UN, Canada’s foreign minister walks fine line between pushing back at Trump and keeping peace

Canada’s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations General Assembly in her speech. She pushed back at President Donald Trump’s assertions of unfettered U.S. power while trying to avoid provoking her country’s biggest trade partner.

 

GLIMPSES: At UN gathering, diplomats speak through clothes, not just words

Some call it a useless bureaucracy. Others praise it as a key tool of humanitarian aid, peacemaking and global diplomacy.

 

Leader of Belarus opposition warns Trump: Beware of her nation’s president

The exiled head of Belarus’ opposition told The Associated Press that she thinks the country’s iron-fisted leader Alexander Lukashenko wants to fool U.S.

 

He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don’t

Martin Cooper changed the world when he pioneered the portable phone. The Motorola company’s four-pound box has evolved into a global army of powerful smartphones weighing ounces.

 

After centuries of isolation, ultra-Orthodox Jews engage with the world more than ever

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish subculture is engaging more with the outside world after centuries of separation.

 

The US penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. But for one sector of souvenir sellers, it’s a living

President Donald Trump talks of big change in his second term of office. But he’s not forgetting small change.

 

As tensions spike between journalists and the president, here’s a look at ‘viewpoint discrimination’

The Associated Press’ decision to keep using the name Gulf of Mexico despite the Trump administration’s demand to call it the Gulf of America has landed the White House in a new phase in its relationship with the press.

 

UN predicts world economic growth at subdued 2.8% in 2025

The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a subdued 2.8% in 2025.

 

Behind the loudest issues, the UN is a world stage for disputes that are often out of the spotlight

The world’s greatest stage is the sprawling Midtown Manhattan complex where leaders meet each year to discuss humanity’s future.

 

What to know from the UN: China, Russia have their say, and a frog metaphor makes a cameo

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia got their turns at the U.N. General Assembly podium on Saturday, but — per usual — their top leaders didn’t speak.

 

Top Haitian official denounces false claim, repeated by Trump, that immigrants are eating pets

A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official.

 

UN chief criticizes divided Security Council for failure of leadership to end wars, calls for unity

The United Nations chief sharply criticized the powerful Security Council for a failure of leadership to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and beyond.

 

Iran’s president tells the UN that his country wants to play a ‘constructive role’ in world affairs

Iran’s new president is signaling to world leaders that he wants to open what he’s calling a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations.

 

UN officials hail limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow polio vaccinations

United Nations officials are hailing limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the war in Gaza.

 

Iran claims Yemen’s Houthi rebels will allow rescuers to salvage oil tanker ablaze in Red Sea

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged oil tanker that remains ablaze in the Red Sea “in consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns.”

 

The UN is moving to fight cybercrime but privacy groups say human rights will be violated

The United Nations is imposing the rule of law on cyberspace with a new global deal requiring a crackdown on the illegal misuse of computer technology.

 

Hamas leader’s assassination sheds light on a long history of alleged Israeli attacks in Iran

Explosions in secretive underground nuclear facilities. Cyber-attacks. Top scientists poisoned. Natural gas pipelines sabotaged.

 

UN will declare that both Israel and Hamas are violating children’s rights in armed conflict

The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children’s rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other.

 

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia get seats on the UN Security Council

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia have gotten seats on the U.N. Security Council. A secret ballot in the General Assembly elected five countries to two-year terms on the council.

 

UN Security Council rejects Russia-backed resolution on banning weapons in space

The United States says that Russia last week launched a satellite that could be part of weaponizing space. That’s a possible future global trend that members of the U.N.

 

IAEA warns that attacks on a nuclear plant in Russian-controlled Ukraine put the world at risk

Russia and Ukraine are trading blame before the United Nations Security Council for the attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

 

The Security Council revives the Palestinian Authority’s UN hopes. The US says not yet

The U.N. Security Council has revived the Palestinian Authority’s hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member.

 

UN envoy Giandomenico Picco, who helped end the Iran-Iraq war and won hostage releases, has died

Former U.N. diplomat Giandomenico Picco has died at the age of 75. Picco, whose negotiating skills helped resolve some of the thorniest crises of the 1980s and 1990s, died on Sunday after a long illness, his son, Giacomo Picco, said.

 

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