By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals on Thursday, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week.
Thousands of doctors have stayed away from hospitals since last Thursday over ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of ...
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A runner-up in Indonesia's presidential election filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court on Thursday, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls.
Former Jakarta Gov. Anies Baswedan, who received nearly 41 ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Schiphol Airport, one of Europe's busiest aviation hubs, a Dutch court ruled Wednesday, saying that the ...
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigned after a little over a year in the position, the Communist Party said Wednesday, making him the latest senior official to leave office after likely being implicated in an intense ...
By BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's only female presidential candidate may have little to no chance of winning in Sunday's election, but activists say her presence is helping to advance a decadeslong campaign to achieve gender equality in ...
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers agreed Wednesday to renew Ukraine's import rates, which have been in place since shortly after Russia invaded, while adding protective measures for agricultural products such as grain and honey to address the ...
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education.
The U.N. children's agency says more than 1 ...
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund reached a preliminary agreement for the release of $1.1 billion from a $3 billion bailout following dayslong talks in Islamabad, the IMF said Wednesday.
Under the deal, Pakistan will receive the ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A special investigations unit in South Africa searched the home of the Speaker of Parliament for more than five hours Tuesday and seized evidence as part of a probe into accusations that she accepted bribes in her previous ...
By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders said Tuesday that all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed in ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand said Wednesday it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those who sell such products to minors.
The move comes less than a month after the government repealed a unique law enacted by the previous left-leaning ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, claiming a progress in efforts to develop a more powerful, agile missile designed to ...
By EBRAHIM NOROOZI and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press
Decades ago, when the Aral was among the world's largest inland bodies of water, it was an economic and social force for the region. Today, climate change — paired with engineering and agricultural projects — has left behind largely ...
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press
DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic's government for a temporary reprieve in deportations as neighboring Haiti's crisis spirals and people attempt to flee over the closed border from a ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Federal Police have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the "obscene" amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country's Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence.
According to the ...
By ABDOULIE JOHN and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press
SERREKUNDA, Gambia (AP) — Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday.
Gambian activists fear a repeal would overturn years of work to better ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable "super-large" multiple rocket launchers designed to target South Korea's capital as he vowed to boost his war deterrent in the face of deepening ...