GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's top court blocked the candidacy of another presidential hopeful on Friday, this time ending the campaign of poll leader Carlos Pineda for alleged violations of electoral law. The Constitutional Court rejected Pineda's appeal after electoral authorities had ...

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is growing concern about temperatures rising, glaciers and snow melting, and weather getting harsh and ...

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people converged on the Serbian capital on Friday for a major rally in support of President Aleksandar Vucic, who is facing an unprecedented revolt against his autocratic rule amid the crisis triggered by two ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican cardinal on trial in the Holy See's big financial crimes case complained Friday that he can't properly defend himself from "the nightmare of these accusations" because prosecutors have withheld key evidence from the ...

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine came under attack Friday from Ukrainian artillery fire, mortar shells and drones, authorities said, hours after two drones struck a Russian city in an area next to the annexed Crimea ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man was shot and killed on Friday in the occupied West Bank after sneaking into a Jewish settlement and trying to stab a resident there, the Israeli army said. In a statement, the military said the man attempted to stab a resident in the Tene Omarim settlement ...

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging that journalists and investigators it hired illegally snooped on him. Justice Timothy Fancourt said a trial ...

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank approved a $300 million additional financing to Lebanon's poor, providing cash payments to help families struggling through the country's historic economic meltdown, the institution said in a statement Friday. The new financing ...

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of Rwanda's most wanted suspects for the country's 1994 genocide appeared in a South African courtroom Friday, clutching a Bible and another book inscribed with "Jesus First" on the cover. Fulgence Kayishema was a police ...

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The attention brought by the latest case of abuse against Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior has taken Spain to what could be a turning point in the fight against racism in soccer. Never before had local authorities acted so quickly to ...

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain's Treasury chief said he would be prepared to see the U.K. economy slip back into recession if further interest rate hikes are necessary to bring down inflation. With the Bank of England expected to keep raising rates following ...

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two top rights groups on Friday slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan as gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity. In a new report, Amnesty International and the ...

By KELVIN CHAN and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Airways canceled dozens of flights Friday, blaming computer problems for disrupting plans for thousands of passengers at the start of a busy holiday weekend — a rocky kickoff to the summer travel season in ...

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake shook Tokyo and other areas of eastern Japan on Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued. The magnitude 6.1 quake was centered off the east coast of Chiba Peninsula at a depth of 44.5 kilometers (28 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Strong shaking ...

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Friday gave the go-ahead for the country's troops to stay in Mali for up to another year, part of a plan to bring Germany's involvement in a U.N. military mission in the West African nation to an orderly end. Parliament approved the new and final mandate for ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday tapped an Argentine bishop with years of ministry in the country's prisons as his successor as archbishop of Buenos Aires, a day after again saying he might finally visit his home country next year. Bishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, the ...

By JENNIFER O'MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain goes to the polls on Sunday for local and regional elections seen as a bellwether for a national vote in December, with the conservative Popular Party steadily gaining ground on the ruling Socialists in key regions. Spain's 17 ...

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Russia on Friday indicated that it views Pope Francis' Ukraine peace initiative positively, but stressed that there are no immediate plans for a Vatican mission to Moscow. The statement from the Russian Foreign ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping, the United Nations chief said Thursday that peacekeepers are increasingly working in places where there is no peace and praised the more than 4,200 who have given their lives to the ...

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa on Thursday signed a deal with the Italian government for a 41-percent minority share in the long-struggling ITA Airways, formerly Alitalia. The deal calls for investments of 575 million euros in capital increases, ...