By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Iryna Reva stares at her phone, replaying the last video her 25-year-old son Vladyslav sent her from the front line before the volunteer soldier disappeared 19 months ago in a battle with Russian forces in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
KIBBUTZ BE'ERI, Israel (AP) — Gillian and Pete Brisley are picking up the pieces of their shattered lives. They are cleaning up the house where their daughter and granddaughters were killed by Hamas on Oct. 7 in hopes that their son-in-law — believed to ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela has exposed the sense of abandonment felt by small or rural communities bypassed by a quasi-economic renaissance seen in the South ...
By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — Last year more than two dozen opposition parties in India came together to take on Narendra Modi, one of the country's most popular prime ministers in generations. But the broad alliance, beset with ideological ...
PRAGUE (AP) — Czech farmers were driving their tractors and other vehicles to several border crossings on Thursday to meet their colleagues from neighboring countries and join forces in their protests against European Union agriculture policies, bureaucracy and overall conditions for their ...
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The number of antisemitic incidents registered in Denmark since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza has reached levels not seen since World War II, the head of the Scandinavian country's small Jewish community ...
By SIBI ARASU Associated Press
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Just a few years ago, someone who wanted to install a rooftop solar connection in India faced getting multiple approvals, finding a reliable company to install the panels and spending heavily before seeing the first surge of clean ...
By ASTRID SÚAREZ Associated Press
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — The lush valley enveloping Medellin was once the heart of a brutal war involving the Colombian government, drug cartels and a smattering of other armed groups.
But a sharp dip in violence in the country's second-biggest city has ...
By DIANE JEANTET and ELEONORE HUGHES Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's foreign minister called for reforms of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions Wednesday while criticizing their inability to prevent global conflicts, as his country kicked off its ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A retired Catholic bishop has been charged with sexual offenses including child abuse in a remote part of Australia's northwest.
Christopher Saunders, 74, will appear in the Broome Magistrates Court on Thursday in the heart of ...
LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some other officials reported an undetermined number of people could be trapped.
Bolivar state ...
By SAM METZ Associated Press
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with Moroccan King Mohammed VI on Wednesday, lauding cooperation on managing migration.
Sánchez also reiterated Spain's position in support of Morocco's autonomy plan regarding the disputed ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — U.K. lawmakers called Wednesday for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war — but only after dozens walked out of the House of Commons in protest at how the vote was handled.
Lawmakers had been debating three separate resolutions related to ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A liberal Russian politician on Wednesday lost another appeal against election officials' decision to bar him from running in next month's presidential vote in which President Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win another six-year term.
Boris Nadezhdin had made a call for ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab-backed and widely supported U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip, saying it would interfere with negotiations ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa will hold pivotal national elections May 29 as polls show the ruling African National Congress could lose its majority for the first time since it came to power with the fall of apartheid 30 years ago.
President ...
By TOM ODULA Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan magistrate Tuesday ordered the main suspect in a doomsday starvation cult and 94 of his followers to receive emergency care after some of the suspects had to be carried into the courtroom to answer manslaughter charges, too frail ...
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Russia is rebuilding its capacity to destabilize European countries and extend its influence in the Middle East and Africa, posing a strategic threat to NATO as its members focus on the war in Ukraine, a U.K.-based think tank said Tuesday.
In ...
MILAN, Italy (AP) — Italy's northern Lombardy region imposed severe antismog measures across Milan and eight surrounding provinces Tuesday to combat a particularly bad period of air pollution.
The measures bar heavy motor vehicles from operating during the day and impose limits on heating ...
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's defense chief expressed frustration Tuesday with what he called the "double standards" of some countries that won't sell his military weapons because of human rights concerns.
Gen. Christopher Musa's comment underscores one ...