By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain has circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in conflict-wracked Sudan ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins soon.
The draft, obtained late Wednesday by The ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Protesters commandeered a pickup truck Wednesday and used it to ram down the wooden doors of Mexico City's National Palace.
They battered down the doors and entered the colonial-era palace, where the president lives and hold his daily press briefings, before they were ...
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mourners in Poland paid tribute Wednesday evening to a young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped on the streets of Warsaw last month, a crime that has shocked the country.
In recent years, the Polish capital has ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the next day at the brazen assassination. Police stood ...
By TOM GOULD and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis sought to encourage his child protection board on Thursday to continue helping victims, as new developments outside the Vatican underscored that the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal isn't going away anytime ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old girl who has been missing in South Africa for nearly three weeks was arrested and charged Thursday with kidnapping and selling or trafficking her daughter, a shocking twist in a case that has seized ...
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press
CELAYA, Mexico (AP) — A dead man lay on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store in late February when journalists rolled in to the north-central Mexico city of Celaya to interview police. A spray of bullet casings and spent projectiles lay ...
By SAM METZ Associated Press
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — For years, Fatima Mhattar has welcomed shopkeepers, students, bankers and retirees to Hammam El Majd, a public bath on the outskirts of Morocco's capital, Rabat. For a handful of change, they relax in a haze of steam then are scrubbed down ...
EVENS SANON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars, which have spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country's president. Gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered, taking advantage of ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged Sudan's warring parties on Thursday to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country's unity and "could ignite regional ...
By JOSEPH WILSON and RENATA BRITO Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain's Catalonia region rolled out a pioneering women's health initiative this week that offers reusable menstruation products for free.
About 2.5 million women, girls, transgender and nonbinary people who ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Backlash from the Orthodox Church of Greece against a landmark law allowing same-sex civil marriage intensified Tuesday, with a regional bishopric imposing a religious ban on two local lawmakers who backed the reform.
Church authorities on the northwestern island of ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that judges said happened "pursuant to a state ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's border and coast guard agency has a duty to inform Libyan authorities about migrant boats in trouble in the country's waters and will keep doing so, the head of Frontex insisted Tuesday, after a charity accused Libya's coast guard of threatening its crew ...
By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech and French presidents said Tuesday their countries remain united in their support of Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression and are ready to look for new ways of helping the Ukrainians succeed.
"We agree that the only option ...
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's president on Tuesday formally signed a bill approving Sweden's NATO bid, removing the last obstacle after 18 months of delays that frustrated the alliance as it sought to expand in response to Russia's war in ...
By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press
SAN JOSÉ LAS FLORES, El Salvador (AP) — Nestled in the mountains of northern El Salvador, near the Honduras border, San José Las Flores has been a bastion of leftist resistance for decades.
Now its residents, many veterans of the country's civil war, ...
By RAF CASERT Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday outlined ambitious plans to boost its defense industry as it responds to the threat posed by Russia's war on Ukraine and seeks to wean member nations off an over-dependence on the U.S. defense industry.
The plans ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's highly anticipated presidential election will take place July 28 – the birthday of the country's late fiery leader Hugo Chávez – officials announced Tuesday, plowing ahead with a tight ...