PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron will use a trip to Serbia at the end of this month to discuss strengthening economic ties between the countries and Serbia’s role in the AI sector, Macron’s office said on Thursday.

SEOUL – North Korea’s foreign ministry denounced a U.S. planned sale of Apache helicopters to South Korea, state media KCNA said on Friday, vowing to take additional steps to bolster its self-defence.

The Canadian government has ordered the country’s two major freight railroads to enter binding arbitration with their labor union to resolve a contract dispute

PANAMA CITY – Panama’s government announced on Thursday additional deportation flights for migrants apprehended in the Central American nation to Ecuador, India and China, in a bid to reduce of flow of mostly U.S.-bound migration.

ASUNCION – Paraguay’s economy is on track to grow a faster-than-expected 4% this year, President Santiago Pena told Reuters on Wednesday, a bullish forecast above official estimates that comes despite depressed prices for its top export, soy.

Congo has recorded 1,030 of the 1,405 new mpox cases in Africa over the last week

European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China

Japan racked up a 621 billion yen, or $4.3 billion, trade deficit in July, as prices of imports surged

BUENOS AIRES  – Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on Tuesday, as global public health authorities remain on alert for a new faster-spreading variant of the virus.

MEXICO CITY – Mexico could boost its annual economic activity by more than 25%, or $390.5 billion, if women participated in the labor force at the same rate as men, a report estimated on Tuesday.