By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers approved sweeping reforms early Saturday that will end the state monopoly on university education, breaking what powerful left-wing student groups have long regarded as a major taboo.
Hours ...
A CORUNA, Spain (AP) — Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months.
When she and her 40-foot (12.2-meter) sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by ...
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem's Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity.
Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind metal shutters. The narrow streets that run toward Al-Aqsa ...
By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders called for an emergency meeting in Jamaica with the United States, Canada and France on Monday to seek a way out of spiraling gang violence in Haiti.
Members of the Caricom regional trade bloc have been trying ...
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve Haiti's poor — a consequence of the unrelenting gang attacks that have paralyzed the ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in prison, which devastated Kremlin critics and spurred ...
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters will elect 230 lawmakers to the National Assembly, the country's parliament. The lawmakers will then choose a new government.
Two moderate ...
By KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong unveiled a proposed law that threatens life imprisonment for residents who "endanger national security" on Friday, deepening worries about erosion of the city's freedoms four years after Beijing imposed a similar law ...
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship was preparing Friday to leave Cyprus and head for Gaza with humanitarian aid, the European Commission president said, as international donors launch a sea corridor to supply the besieged territory facing widespread ...
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria's northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier in the latest mass kidnap, which analysts and activists blamed on ...
By MOHAMED JAHJOUH, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It's not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in war-ravaged Gaza — now some are dying of hunger too.
Officials have long warned over the risk of famine in the Palestinian territory that's ...
By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, a powerful message of support for women's rights on International Women's Day.
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti used a 19th-century printing press to seal the ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — China saw large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year, according to reports presented Friday to the National People's Congress that stressed the ruling Communist Party's determination to safeguard national ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is responsible for the "physical violence" that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, laws and its ruling theocracy, a ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For Margarita, a 33-year-old event planner in St. Petersburg, the prison death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was devastating news that left her dispirited and longing to take some sort of action.
But she said she had "no ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United Nations' refugee chief raised a new alert Thursday over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique, the vast majority of them because of a seven-year insurgency by a jihadi group that has thrown the north of the country ...
BABA AHMED Associated Press
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A joint security force announced by the juntas ruling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to fight the worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region countries faces a number of challenges that cast doubt on its effectiveness, analysts said ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Malaysia's prime minister said Thursday that the United States has become more "transactional," using rewards and punishments to achieve aims with other countries, and should be encouraged to enhance cooperation with China in the ...
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Home furnishings giant Ikea recently placed billboards in Portugal advertising a self-assembly bookcase, with a wink at the country's political upheaval. "A good place to stash books. Or to stash 75,800 euros," it said.
That's the ...
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland saw its most violent protest by farmers and supporters yet Wednesday as some participants threw stones at police and tried to push through barriers around parliament, injuring several officers, police said.
Police used tear gas ...