UN experts say Russia violated international law by imprisoning Wall Street...
GENEVA (AP) — United Nations human rights experts say Russia violated international law by imprisoning Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and should release him “immediately.” The Working...
View ArticleFrom red wall to King's Speech, UK elections have a vocabulary all their own....
LONDON (AP) — United Kingdom elections have a distinct vocabulary that draws on traditions of parliamentary democracy as well as modern political slogans and spin. As voters go to the polls Thursday...
View ArticleStampede at religious event in India kills at least 116 people, mostly women...
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed at least 116 people and injured scores,...
View ArticleTaiwan says China told Taiwan's coast guard to not interfere in the detention...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said Wednesday that China warned Taiwan’s coast guard against interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat, in what is seen as Beijing's latest attempt to...
View ArticleIn the UK election campaign’s final hours, Sunak battles to the end as...
LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak has covered thousands of miles in the past few weeks, but he hasn’t outrun the expectation that his time as Britain’s prime minister is in its final hours. United Kingdom...
View ArticleLeaders of Russia and China to meet in Central Asian summit in a show of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be meeting for the second time in as many months as they visit Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to...
View ArticleLife and death in Gaza's 'safe zone' where food is scarce and Israel strikes...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike slammed into a residential building next to the main medical center in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, wounding at least seven people, hospital...
View ArticleItaly appeals court upholds conviction of 2 Americans in death of policeman...
ROME (AP) — An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two American men in the killing of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation five years ago...
View ArticleRussian missiles and drones strike eastern Ukraine's Dnipro in a daylight...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile and drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Wednesday killed five civilians and injured 47 others, including a 14-year-old girl, authorities...
View ArticleMexico evacuates even sea turtle eggs from beaches as Hurricane Beryl approaches
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government on Wednesday began evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of Hurricane Beryl. While Beryl...
View ArticleHaiti's prime minister says Kenyan police are crucial to controlling gangs,...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and...
View ArticlePolice find remains of girl snatched by a crocodile while swimming in...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police on Thursday found the remains of a 12-year-old girl, two days after she was snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in remote northern Australia. The...
View ArticleFires have become the most visible sign of the conflict heating up on the...
CHEBAA, Lebanon (AP) — With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces...
View ArticlePro-Palestinian protesters breach security at Australia's Parliament House to...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters breached security at Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners from the roof on Thursday as a senator quit the government over its direction...
View ArticleLabour is hopeful and Conservatives morose as voters deliver their verdict on...
LONDON (AP) — British voters are picking a new government Thursday in a parliamentary election that is widely expected to bring the Labour Party to power against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise,...
View ArticleHezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese Hezbollah group says it has launched over 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders. The attack by...
View ArticleWhat to know about Venezuela's election as Maduro faces the toughest race of...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's self-described socialist government is facing a serious electoral challenge in a presidential election for the first time in decades. President Nicolás Maduro,...
View ArticleMan who stabbed South Korea's opposition leader sentenced to 15 years in prison
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man who stabbed South Korea’s opposition leader in the neck earlier this year was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday, court officials said. The knife-wielding man...
View ArticleHe's derided as dull, but Keir Starmer becomes UK prime minister with a...
LONDON (AP) — For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result. Starmer has led Britain's Labour Party to a landslide election victory, and on Friday will...
View ArticleGermany fears a victory for the far-right National Rally could harm its close...
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is worried about the outcome of the run-off election in France. Scholz, who is normally tightlipped when asked about domestic politics in other European...
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