
BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media on Tuesday accused more than two dozen human rights lawyers rounded up in recent days of being troublemakers intent on illegal activism, as foreign governments and rights groups expressed growing concern over the crackdown.
by AP14 Jul 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, with the goal of formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service, senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
by AP13 Jul 2015, 11:40 AM PST0

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister opened a Twitter account in Farsi on Monday, seeking to reach out to the Iranian public as world powers were getting closer to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. Benjamin Netanyahu strongly opposes
by AP13 Jul 2015, 10:46 AM PST0

UFA, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin announced Friday that India and Pakistan will join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group dominated by Russia and China and also including former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
by AP10 Jul 2015, 7:59 AM PST0

LONDON (AP) — The British government on Thursday told all U.K. tourists to leave Tunisia because a terrorist attack is “highly likely.” The Foreign Office said it is advising against all but essential travel to the North African country. It
by AP9 Jul 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight others injured Tuesday as thousands of daredevils dashed alongside fighting bulls through the streets of this northern Spanish city on the first bull run of the San
by AP7 Jul 2015, 6:07 AM PST0

CAIRO (AP) — The latest news on the nine Muslim Brotherhood leaders killed in a Cairo apartment raid (all times local).
by AP1 Jul 2015, 2:10 PM PST0

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Islamic militants on Wednesday unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks, including suicide car bombings, on Egyptian army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 50 soldiers, security and military officials said.
by AP1 Jul 2015, 6:12 AM PST0

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Airports Commission unanimously recommended the construction of a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday in a long-awaited report on how to best expand the country’s aviation capacity. The commission decided that Heathrow presented a
by AP1 Jul 2015, 2:22 AM PST0

Palestinian protesters whitewashed a rainbow flag of gay rights that was painted by a Palestinian artist on six slabs of the West Bank separation barrier. The artist, Khaled Jarrar, said Tuesday his art was meant as a reminder that Palestinians
by AP1 Jul 2015, 1:00 AM PST0

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece’s financial woes on a day a big repayment to the International Monetary Fund is due and the country’s bailout program with European creditors ends (all times local): 12.32 p.m. The Kremlin
by AP30 Jun 2015, 4:44 AM PST0

Wellington, New Zealand (AP)– Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that’s home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage — but has no gay couples wanting to wed.
by AP23 Jun 2015, 6:16 AM PST0

WASHINGTON — The State Department is bailing out on a decades-long tradition of putting up US diplomats at The Waldorf-Astoria only months after it was sold to a Chinese company.
by AP18 Jun 2015, 6:17 AM PST0

Greece insisted Monday it is ready to return to bailout talks “at any moment” after a breakdown in negotiations with creditors pushed the country closer toward bankruptcy and jolted international markets. As concern over Greece’s financial future swelled across financial
by AP15 Jun 2015, 10:07 AM PST0

BEIJING (AP) — China’s former security chief was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on corruption charges, in a victory for President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign seen as further cementing his authority by removing a potential challenger.
by AP11 Jun 2015, 6:20 AM PST0

PATNA, India (AP) — Police killed at least 12 Maoist rebels in a clash early Tuesday in one of their strongholds in eastern India.
by AP9 Jun 2015, 6:36 AM PST0

A subway train bumped into another one ahead of it at a station in southern Rome on Friday, throwing passengers to the floor and injuring a dozen people. Passengers emerging from the station reported feeling the impact, seeing sparks and
by AP5 Jun 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

JOHANNESBURG – A lion killed an American woman and injured a man driving through a private wildlife park in Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said.
by AP2 Jun 2015, 6:16 AM PST0

Harriet Harman has rejected a proposal to put the next Labour leader up for re-election in three years’ time. The acting Labour leader said she disagreed with the suggestion that the party should have a chance to remove the new leader
by AP31 May 2015, 4:35 AM PST0

If politicians are given a free vote, same-sex marriage has a good chance of being legalised by the end of the year, says deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek. But in the meantime she hopes a coalition MP will second the
by AP31 May 2015, 4:18 AM PST0

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish voters have sent a strong signal that they are unhappy with the country’s direction, apparently unseating a president despite the country’s years of fast economic growth and unprecedented stability.
by AP25 May 2015, 9:11 AM PST0

(AP) Officials say that at least 18 leftist rebels have been killed in a raid in western Colombia.
by AP22 May 2015, 6:04 AM PST0

VIENNA (AP) — For the first time in its 60-year history, the Eurovision Song Contest may be won by — Australia. The land from Down Under is making its debut in Europe’s favorite songfest, invited as a wild card due
by AP22 May 2015, 3:16 AM PST0

MOSCOW (AP) — The groom is approaching 50, a silver-haired boss in the Chechen strongman’s feared police force. The bride is 17, a shy beauty reportedly devastated at the idea of wedding a man nearly three times her age.
by AP21 May 2015, 9:56 PM PST0

LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested seven men over a major heist in London’s Hatton Garden jewelry district over the Easter weekend. The men, ranging in age from 48 to 76, are being questioned in a London police
by AP19 May 2015, 6:32 AM PST0