Qataris decide whether to end limited voting for legislative seats in shadow...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar opened a snap poll Tuesday to decide whether to end its limited voting for legislative seats, a measure likely to pass and end its short-lived experiment in...
View ArticleNorth Korean test of ICBM is condemned by two-thirds of UN Security Council
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S.-led statement approved by 10 of the 15 U.N. Security Council members Tuesday condemned a recent North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch and called on...
View ArticleAn Iran official claims Iranian-German prisoner died before he could be executed
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian official claimed Tuesday that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran could execute him — directly contradicting the country's earlier...
View ArticlePolice fire tear gas at protest over deadly canopy collapse in Serbia
NOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Protesters on Tuesday threw flares and red paint on the City Hall building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad in rage over last week's collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway...
View ArticleA week after Spain's floods, families hope that the missing are alive with 89...
SEDAVI, Spain (AP) — Francisco Murgui went out to try to salvage his motorbike when the water started to rise. He never came back. One week after catastrophic flooding devastated eastern Spain, María...
View ArticleAustralian High Court overturns law that forced scores of migrants to wear...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court ruled Wednesday that migrants can’t be forced by law to wear electronic tracking bracelets or to comply with curfews. The ruling is a blow to the...
View ArticleHurricane Rafael is expected to rapidly intensify as it barrels toward Cuba
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Rafael swirled past the Cayman Islands and was expected to rapidly intensify until making landfall on Wednesday in western Cuba, where it's forecast to hit as a...
View ArticleEuropean leaders seek to chart a common future at summit but all eyes are...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Dozens of European leaders will be gingerly seeking ways to address common challenges together during a one-day summit in Hungary's capital on Thursday. Yet despite myriad...
View ArticleGermany's Scholz fires his finance minister as his coalition collapses
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday he was firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, signaling the collapse of the ruling three-party coalition that relied...
View ArticleRescuers pull 30 bodies from a building in central Lebanon hit in an Israeli...
BARJA, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese rescuers pulled 30 bodies out of the rubble after a late-night Israeli strike on an apartment building in the town of Barja, Lebanon’s Civil Defense service said...
View ArticleEuropean climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record...
CHICAGO (AP) — For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it's ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees...
View ArticleGlobal leaders congratulate Trump but his victory looks set to roil the world...
LONDON (AP) — The verdict of U.S. voters was more decisive than most pollsters and pundits had predicted. Now the world waits to see whether the election of Donald Trump as president for a second time...
View ArticleOn Ukraine's front and in Kyiv, hope and pragmatism compete when it comes to...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Soldiers in a Ukrainian artillery battery on the front lines in the country’s east were only vaguely aware Wednesday of American election results pointing to Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleIndonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupts for the second time in a week
MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted again Thursday, spewing a column of hot clouds that rose 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) from its peak, three days after a midnight...
View ArticleIsrael passes law that would allow it to deport the families of Palestinian...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament passed a law early Thursday that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers, including the country’s own citizens, to the war-ravaged Gaza...
View ArticleWhen should kids start using social media? Australia's government proposes...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government announced on Thursday what it described as world-leading legislation that would institute an age limit of 16 years for children to start using...
View ArticleSouth Korea's president denies wrongdoing in a growing scandal
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denied wrongdoing Thursday in a burgeoning influence-peddling scandal involving him and his wife that’s severely hurting his approval...
View ArticleFrance condemns a spat between Israeli police and French consulate staff at a...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Armed Israeli police forced their way into a French-owned church compound in the contested city of Jerusalem on Thursday, the French foreign ministry said, briefly detaining two...
View ArticleYemen's Houthi rebels shoot down what witnesses say was a US drone as...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels shot down what bystanders described as an American drone early Friday, potentially the latest downing of a U.S. spy drone as the militants...
View ArticleMyanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine, the...
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