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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
CAIRO (AP) — The latest news on the nine Muslim Brotherhood leaders killed in a Cairo apartment raid (all times local).
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
PATNA, India (AP) — Police killed at least 12 Maoist rebels in a clash early Tuesday in one of their strongholds in eastern India.
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
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.
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
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
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.
(AP) Officials say that at least 18 leftist rebels have been killed in a raid in western Colombia.
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
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.
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
