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Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Senior doctors at major hospitals in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse on Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on strike...

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Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary pleads not guilty to terrorism charges

LONDON (AP) — Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary pleaded not guilty Monday in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges. Choudary, 57, pleaded not guilty to membership in a banned...

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Russian officials call for harsh punishment for those who carried out deadly...

Calls mounted on Monday to harshly punish those behind the Russia concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people as authorities combed the burned-out ruins of the shopping and entertainment...

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Two Polish military engineers die after the detonation of TNT during a...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish military engineers died on Monday following the detonation of TNT during a training exercise at a military facility in southern Poland, the defense minister said....

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North Korea says Japan's prime minister offered to meet with leader Kim Jong...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday that Japan's prime minister has offered to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but stressed that prospects for their countries’ first summit in...

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Former Senegal prime minister concedes defeat in presidential election to...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A former Senegalese prime minister has conceded the presidential election to the opposition candidate based on preliminary results a day after the vote was held. Amadou Ba in a...

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The Latest | Aid groups describe an 'unimaginable' situation after visiting a...

Aid groups that visited a packed Gaza hospital described an “unimaginable” situation in which large open wounds were left untreated. An emergency medical team organized by three aid groups spent two...

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Russia extends arrest of US reporter Evan Gershkovich. He has already spent...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late June, court officials said. The 32-year-old...

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Senegal's president-elect pledges to fight corruption after a stunning...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal woke up Tuesday to a new president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector and political newcomer who was released from prison just weeks ago and had...

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UK court says Assange can't be extradited on espionage charges until US rules...

LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving...

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Austrian police given small gifts after protecting Russian Embassy, told to...

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian police officers who provided security around the Russian Embassy on the day of that country's presidential election were given small presents as they left, Vienna police said...

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King Charles III will attend Easter Sunday service in his first major...

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III and Queen Camilla will attend an Easter service at the chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday, Buckingham Palace officials said Tuesday, in the first major appearance for...

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Former Hungarian insider releases audio he says is proof of corruption in...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A former Hungarian government insider turned critic released an audio recording on Tuesday that he says proves that top officials conspired to cover up corruption, the latest...

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Venezuela's main opposition coalition unable to register a presidential...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The main Venezuelan opposition coalition said early Tuesday that electoral authorities didn't let it register its presidential candidate as the deadline ended, in what it...

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Russia persists in blaming Ukraine for concert attack despite its denial and...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials persisted Tuesday in saying Ukraine and the West had a role in last week's deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim...

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Israel and Hamas dig in as international pressure builds for a cease-fire in...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed to press ahead with Israel's offensive and blasted a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a pause in the fighting, saying it...

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Pakistani police say 5 Chinese nationals and their local driver were killed...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government...

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50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure...

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Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 140 after another victim...

MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said. That person was one of five still...

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Quran-burning Iraqi man who faces an expulsion order from Sweden plans to...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden told a newspaper on Wednesday that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by...

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