Samya Kullab

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President Donald Trump meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says he’s arranging for Putin and Zelenskyy to meet face to face, followed by meeting of all 3 presidents

By Sylvie Corbet, Samya Kullab, and others

A Palestinian vegetable merchant shows worn-out Israeli currency Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Inside Gaza’s world of ‘cash brokers’ as currency disappears: ‘We lose nearly half of our money just to be able to spend it’

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samya Kullab, and others

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 27: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi (L) and Republican presidential candidate former US President Donald Trump (R) meet in New York during the President of Ukraine’s visit to the United States on September 27, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Uliana Boichuk/Novyny LIVE/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Ukraine wants to strike a deal with Trump to develop its minerals industry. Why are rare earth elements so important?

By Samya Kullab and The Associated Press

People sit in an unlicensed Starbucks cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Real Starbucks merchandise is imported from neighboring countries to stock the three cafes in the city, but all are unlicensed. Starbucks filed a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down the trademark violation but the case was shuttered after the owner allegedly threatened lawyers hired by the coffee house. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

3 Starbucks stores in Iraq use real company merchandise down to the napkins. Thing is, they have nothing to do with the chain

By Samya Kullab, Qassim Abdul-Zahra, and others

People walk corgis along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh on Sunday.

Diana called them the Queen’s ‘moving carpet.’ What will happen to the royal corgis now?

By Samya Kullab and The Associated Press