Voting closes in Indonesia's election to choose a new president
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Voting for a new Indonesian president and thousands of other posts in one of the world’s largest elections closed Wednesday with no major problems reported. Defense Minister...
View ArticleMyanmar will start drafting 5,000 people a month into the military soon. Some...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning...
View ArticleRussia and China clash with US and UK over attacks on Yemen rebels for...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels...
View ArticleKim watches missile tests and warns that North Korea will take an aggressive...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test of new surface-to-sea missiles and warned that the country would take a more aggressive military posture in disputed seas,...
View Article2 Chinese fishermen drown after chase with Taiwan's Coast Guard, which...
BANGKOK (AP) — Two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by Taiwan's Coast Guard off the coast of Taiwan's Kinmen archipelago, the coast guard said Wednesday while accusing them of...
View Article'Our gods were locked in the basement.' Now Nepal is pursuing sacred items...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's gods and goddess are returning home. An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled abroad in the past. Now dozens are being repatriated...
View ArticleLive updates | Hospitals in Gaza are devastated after 5 months of Israel's...
The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth month, has devastated hospitals in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of them only partially functioning as Israel's daily bombardments kill and...
View ArticleGreek parliament to vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in first for an...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament is set to vote Thursday to legalize same-sex civil marriage, in a first for an Orthodox Christian country and despite opposition from the influential Greek...
View ArticleAustralian parliament wants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back home, not...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday he hoped for an amicable end to the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after lawmakers ramped up...
View ArticleQueen Camilla, once shunned by British public, comes to the rescue as Charles...
LONDON (AP) — What a difference a few decades can make. Queen Camilla, once seen as the scourge of the House of Windsor, the woman at the heart of King Charles III’s doomed marriage to the late...
View ArticleIsraeli forces storm the main hospital in southern Gaza, saying hostages were...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces stormed the main hospital in southern Gaza on Thursday, hours after Israeli fire killed a patient and wounded six others inside the complex. The Israeli army...
View ArticleWhy tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting again
NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for guaranteed crop prices, renewing a movement that succeeded in getting contentious new agricultural laws repealed in 2021....
View ArticleMexico will likely elect a woman as its next president, but money to govern...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is almost certain to elect its first female president in June — both leading candidates are women — but it’s almost equally as certain that she won’t have much room to act...
View ArticleAlgeria's black market for foreign currency underlines its economic woes
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In a square near the center of Algiers, currency traders carry wads of euros, pounds and dollars, hoping to exchange them to those worried about the plummeting value of the...
View ArticleTo fight dengue epidemic, health agents in Brazil scour junkyards and roofs...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid...
View ArticleGreece just legalized same-sex marriage. Will other Orthodox countries join...
Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one. Eastern Orthodox...
View ArticleFamilies of Indonesian activists tortured by soldiers 25 years ago shocked at...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Families of Indonesian activists who were kidnapped and tortured by the military 25 years ago demanded justice in a protest Thursday and expressed shock over the apparent...
View ArticleSouthern Israel was filled with blood and death. Brilliant red wildflowers...
REIM, Southern Israel (AP) — Each year as spring approaches, wildflowers erupt across Israel, a splash of color before the punishing Middle Eastern summer. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in...
View ArticleHong Kong customs arrests 7 in a $1.8 billion money laundering case linked to...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people linked to the territory's largest ever money laundering case, involving about 14 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.8 billion) some...
View ArticleZimbabwe's vice president says the government will block a scholarship for...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday as a...
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