MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military opened two weeks of combat drills Monday that would include seizing an island in the disputed South China Sea and likely be frowned upon by China.
More than 3,000 Filipino army, navy and air force personnel will take part in the maneuvers, ...
BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Monday after a six-month stay on the Tiangong space station, part of China's effort to be a global leader in space exploration.
A parachute slowed their capsule's nighttime descent to a remote landing area in China's Inner Mongolia ...
VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shattered.
Six days ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it had survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant was shut down again Monday due to ...
By JUAN KARITA and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press
LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales said Sunday that he would press on with a hunger strike until the government of his protégé-turned-rival agreed to a political dialogue. His act of ...
By ISABEL DEBRE , JULIA FRANKEL and LEE KEATH Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the most startling aspects of Israel's campaign against Hamas in Gaza has been the destruction wreaked on the territory's health sector. Over the past 13 months, the Israeli military has besieged and ...
By MARIA CHENG and RUTH ALONGA Associated Press
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be "stabilizing" — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global emergency declaration in August might be on the ...
LONDON (AP) — Holding signs with slogans including "stop the plop" and "species not feces," thousands of people marched in London on Sunday to demand a cleanup of Britain's sewage-clogged waterways.
Organizers estimated that 15,000 people took part in the march along the River Thames to ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon's Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts ...
By ISABEL DEBRE, JULIA FRANKEL and LEE KEATH Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.
Bombardment is pounding around them as Israel wages a new offensive ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — Five months after the European Union lurched to the political right, the influence of nationalist and populist parties will go on public display in Brussels on Monday when lawmakers vet the proposed new members of the EU's increasingly ...
By SAMUEL GETACHEW Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — As the price of fuel soared in Ethiopia earlier this year, Awgachew Seleshi decided to buy an electric car. That aligned with the government's new efforts to phase out gas-powered vehicles. But months later, he's questioning ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the U.S. with "a crushing response" over attacks on Iran and its allies.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Nearly 200 families gathered Saturday along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border for heartfelt but brief reunions with loved ones they had not seen for years because they live in opposite countries.
Tears flowed and people embraced as Mexican families were allowed ...
By JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves told lawmakers Wednesday that taxes will rise by 40 billion pounds ($52 billion) in order to plug a hole in the public finances and investment projects to boost growth.
In the Labour Party's ...
By BARAA ANWER and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — A second Japanese high court ruled Wednesday that the government's policy against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, the latest in a series of decisions upholding plaintiffs' demands for marriage equality.
The Tokyo High Court called the ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister.
It's the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voice and baring their faces outside the ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court is expected to announce Wednesday its verdict in the trial of a Rwandan former doctor accused of having played a role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
The Advocates-General, in charge of the prosecution, requested 30 years in prison ...
LONDON (AP) — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track.
About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding that TB ...