By RISHI LEKHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of farmers protested in India's capital on Thursday to press their demand for a new law that would guarantee minimum crop prices, after weeks of being blocked from entering the city.
They rode crowded buses and ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of Poland's influential Catholic Church on Thursday chose moderate Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda to be their new principal, at a time when the church is still struggling to reckon with the abuse of minors by some Polish clergy, while the number of Poles going to ...
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee ...
By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The British government published a new official definition of "extremism" on Thursday, and said groups that get the label will be barred from receiving government funding.
The move is in response to a surge in reports of ...
By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press
AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years, Syria's civil war has been a largely frozen conflict, the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of President Bashar Assad, various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform the Palestinian Authority as part of Washington's postwar vision for Gaza.
Mohammad Mustafa, a United ...
By BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's top opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, has been released from prison ahead of the presidential election later this month, triggering jubilant celebrations across the country's capital.
Sonko is widely seen ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.N. atomic agency on Tuesday emphasized to Japan's government the importance of transparency in its ongoing discharges of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
International ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government.
The rules ...
By MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was a somber scene as Randa Baker and her family sat on the ground in their tent in southern Gaza at sunset Monday for their meal breaking their first day of fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Three ...
By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press
Lagos, NIGERIA (AP) — The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent's rich supplies of oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries, deals that have helped China gain ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press
ABOARD THE FRENCH FRIGATE NORMANDIE (AP) — The French navy frigate, bristling with weaponry and powering through frigid Norwegian seas not so far from Russia, awoke at 7:30 a.m. sharp to what, in the circumstances, was a surreal sound.
The 1967 " Summer ...
By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Russians are finding a few imported staples, like fruit, coffee and olive oil, have shot way up in price. Most global brands have disappeared — or been reincarnated as Russian equivalents under new, Kremlin-friendly ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict warned Israel on Monday that the finding of "clear and convincing information" that some hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel were subjected to ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine awoke Monday to another day of war — Russian drones blasted buildings in the Kharkiv and Odesa regions — but also the news it had won its first Oscar.
The best documentary victory for Mstyslav Chernov's ...
BERLIN (AP) — A union representing many of Germany's train drivers has called for another strike in a long and bitter dispute with the state-owned main railway operator over working hours and pay, drawing sharp criticism from the country's transport minister.
The GDL union called on drivers ...
PARIS (AP) — Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild scientific infrastructure that was damaged or destroyed during two years of Russia's war on its neighbor, the United Nations' cultural and scientific agency said on Monday.
More than 1,443 scientific facilities, many ...
PARIS (AP) — The French government said Monday that several of its services have been targeted by cyberattacks of "unprecedented intensity," and a special crisis center was activated to restore online services.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's office said in a statement that the attacks ...
By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of Tibetans in exile marched on the streets of New Delhi on Sunday to commemorate the 65th Tibetan National Uprising Day against China.
Over 300 protesters gathered near India's Parliament House and chanted slogans including ...