By MEGAN JANETSKY and DÉBORA REY Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cities across Latin America were cloaked in purple Friday as hundreds of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Women's Day, coming at a moment of change in a region marred by soaring levels of violence ...
By MICHAEL KEALY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
DUBLIN (AP) — According to Ireland's Constitution, a woman's place is in the home.
Irish voters will decide Friday — International Women's Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are ...
By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The kidnapping of 287 grade school students by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria this week was only the latest in a slew of such raids since the infamous Chibok schoolgirls' abduction by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram a decade ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — A seven-year investigation of a former Irish Republican Army double agent concluded Friday in an interim report that the spy was probably responsible for more deaths than lives saved during Northern Ireland 's three-decade conflict.
The probe, ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of foreigners, including many from the United States and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already shut down both ...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday marched to the country's embassy in Lithuania, holding a photo of her imprisoned husband and demanding information about him after a year of being incommunicado.
Siarhei Tsikhanouski is among ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged Sudan's warring parties on Friday to immediately halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in desperate need of food and other ...
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 ...