MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Southeast Asia’s top diplomats will express alarm over renewed hostilities in the Middle East and call for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz when they gather in the Philippine capital Tuesday for talks with Western and Asian counterparts. Iran and some of be...

LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester and new leader of the Labour Party, took the final steps on Monday to succeed Keir Starmer and become Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade. The affable Burnham returned to Parliament in June by winning a risky special and...

Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old found dead after taking a July 4 boat trip with friends to a Gulf Coast island, will be remembered Monday by his family and civil rights leaders at a church in his hometown of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The funeral will be officiated by the Rev. Al Sharpton, a a...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Commission on Monday fined Chinese online marketplace AliExpress 550 million euros ($629 million) for failing to adequately crack down on the sale of unsafe and counterfeit products on its site. The fine, the biggest ever imposed for breaches of the was...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Andy Burnham says politicians “need to be better” in his first speech as Britain’s leader. He is promising to deliver a “circuit breaker” for a system he says has taken wrong turns since the 1980s. Burnham spoke outside 10 Downing St. minutes after he was a...