By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday that a Conservative lawmaker was wrong to say the mayor of London is controlled by Islamists, and denied his party tolerates anti-Muslim prejudice.
Sunak was pressured to condemn Islamophobia ...
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press
THE HAGUE (AP) — The United Nations' highest court on Monday wrapped up historic proceedings into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of lands sought by Palestinians for a future state, with most voices at the hearing arguing against the Israeli ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian prime minister announced the resignation of his government on Monday, paving the way for a shake-up in the Palestinian Authority, which the U.S. hopes will eventually take on a role in postwar Gaza.
Many obstacles remain to making a revamped Palestinian ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungary's parliament approved Sweden's application to join NATO on Monday, paving the way for the Scandinavian country to become the alliance's 32nd member.
Hungary was the last holdout after Turkey agreed to Sweden's accession in January. Newcomers need to be approved by ...
By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official in Burundi says nine people have been killed in an attack by rebels opposed to his government and again accuses neighboring Rwanda of supporting the armed group.
Government spokesman Jérôme Niyonzima described a ...
By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world's top decision-making body on the environment is meeting in Kenya's capital this week to discuss how countries can work together to tackle environmental crises like climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity.
The ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, TIA GOLDENBERG and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has failed to comply with an order by the United Nations' top court to provide urgently needed aid to desperate people in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said Monday, a month after a ...
By FELIPE CAMPOS MELLO and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press
SAO PAULO (AP) — Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro staged a huge rally jamming a main avenue in Brazil's biggest city Sunday to defend him against legal challenges that could put him in jail.
The far-right leader ...
By RAF CASERT Associated Press
WESTROZEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western Belgium's industrial farmlands that drew the attention of biological engineer Ineke Maes.
The slime was destructive algae, the result of the ...
By VICTORIA MILKO and DAVID GOLDMAN Associated Press
SINGAPORE (AP) — A crack of thunder booms as dozens of screens in a locked office flash between live video of cars splashing through wet roads, drains sapping the streets dry, and reservoirs collecting the precious rainwater across the ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AP) — Israel's defense minister vowed Sunday to step up attacks on Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group even if a cease-fire is reached with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah, which has been exchanging fire with Israel ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Zelenskyy said that the number was far lower than estimates given by Russian President Vladimir ...
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press
VIENNA (AP) — An 84-year-old Austrian man who traveled to Afghanistan last year and was arrested there was released by the country's Taliban rulers, the Austrian government said Sunday.
The Austrian Foreign Ministry in a statement identified the ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A long-awaited postwar plan by Israel's prime minister shows that his government seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip. That was swiftly rejected Friday by ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prosecutors said Friday they are seeking extradition orders and the arrest of more suspects over the 2020 theft of around $580,000 in U.S. cash that was hidden in a couch at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's ...
By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD undefined
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister announced Friday the reopening of the Beiji refinery, the country's largest, which had been shut down for a decade after being damaged in the battle against the Islamic State extremist group.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia ...
By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — From within the debris of Russia's war, Ukraine's most famous sculptor was compelled to make a dark artistic pivot the day his own country house was ravaged by a Russian strike.
"It happened by accident, it happened when a missile came into ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office said in a new report Friday that scores of people, including children, have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in the ongoinng conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war ...
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Rev. Viachaslau Barok was a familiar face in Rasony, a town in northern Belarus near the Russian border, overseeing construction of its Roman Catholic church and celebrating Mass daily for two decades.
He got into trouble in ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States flew advanced stealth fighters in a joint missile-interception drill Friday over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's air force said, an apparent response to a spate of weapons tests this year by ...