By ANDREW WILKS and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — Muslims around the world celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday Wednesday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. But events were overshadowed by the worsening crisis in Gaza and Israel's expected military offensive in ...
PARIS (AP) — France's government presented a bill Wednesday to allow adults with terminal cancer or other incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow for legal options for aid in dying.
Many French people have traveled to neighboring countries where medically assisted ...
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy's highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British ...
By ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press
LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo's government said a planned three-day protest this week over the arrest of opposition figures and new legislation scrapping president elections was illegal, a move that heightened tensions in the West African nation that has been ...
By ANDREI POPOVICIU Associated Press
PIKINE, Senegal (AP) — Mouhamed Sall stepped to the chalkboard with a glance and quick question in sign language to an assistant. Then he solved the exercise to the silent approval of his classmates, who waved their hands in a display of ...
By MOLLY QUELL and RAF CASERT Associated Press
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a ...
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Israel announced trade barriers on each other Tuesday as relations deteriorated further amid the war in Gaza.
Turkey, a staunch critic of Israel's military actions in the territory, announced that it was restricting exports ...
By JORGE RUEDA and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's once-powerful oil minister, who resigned unexpectedly last year during a corruption probe at the top ranks of the state-run crude industry, has been arrested, the government said Tuesday. The ...
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — This week's Champions League games are going ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat, the governing body of European soccer said Tuesday.
Several posters circulated on social media alleging to be from the Al-Azaim Foundation — a media arm of ...
By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians.
Weeks of gang violence have forced some 18 hospitals to stop working and ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland's prime minister by a vote in parliament Tuesday, becoming at 37 the country's youngest-ever leader.
Harris takes over as head of Ireland's three-party coalition government from Leo Varadkar, who ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Shelves have gone empty, as residents hunt in vain and resort to DIY alternatives. And surging resale prices are shocking even to Argentines accustomed to triple-digit inflation. The country's latest crisis: There isn't enough ...
By DAVID RISING Associated Press
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water.
In another video clip, a person plays with the genitals of a juvenile male ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Germany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations' top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other ...
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's Electoral Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office in the upcoming general election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls.
The decision paves ...
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Ales Bialiatski marked his 1,000th day in prison in Belarus on Tuesday amid increasing fears about his deteriorating health, his wife said.
Natalia Pinchuk told The Associated Press that ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Wednesday it had tested a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile powered with solid propellants, extending a run of weapons tests that's deepening a nuclear standoff with neighbors and the United States.
With ...
By JOHNSON LAI and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press
HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing nine people, trapping dozens in quarries and sending some residents scrambling out the windows of ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Wednesday lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia's full-scale invasion.
The new mobilization law ...
By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality."
President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into law in May last year. The law is supported by many in ...