By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is responsible for the "physical violence" that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, laws and its ruling theocracy, a ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For Margarita, a 33-year-old event planner in St. Petersburg, the prison death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was devastating news that left her dispirited and longing to take some sort of action.
But she said she had "no ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United Nations' refugee chief raised a new alert Thursday over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique, the vast majority of them because of a seven-year insurgency by a jihadi group that has thrown the north of the country ...
BABA AHMED Associated Press
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A joint security force announced by the juntas ruling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to fight the worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region countries faces a number of challenges that cast doubt on its effectiveness, analysts said ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Malaysia's prime minister said Thursday that the United States has become more "transactional," using rewards and punishments to achieve aims with other countries, and should be encouraged to enhance cooperation with China in the ...
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Home furnishings giant Ikea recently placed billboards in Portugal advertising a self-assembly bookcase, with a wink at the country's political upheaval. "A good place to stash books. Or to stash 75,800 euros," it said.
That's the ...
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland saw its most violent protest by farmers and supporters yet Wednesday as some participants threw stones at police and tried to push through barriers around parliament, injuring several officers, police said.
Police used tear gas ...
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 ...