By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Monday dismissed a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the deadly ...
By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Russian journalist Ekaterina Barabash resurfaced in Paris Monday following a daring escape from Moscow last month after being put under house arrest and facing a 10-year prison sentence for posts condemning Russia's full-scale invasion of ...
By BABA AHMED Associated Press
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Hundreds of activists defied threats from Mali 's military government and demonstrated over the weekend in the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took power by force almost four years ago.
The demonstrators in the capital, Bamako, ...
BERLIN (AP) — The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party on Monday sued the domestic intelligence service for classifying it as a right-wing extremist organization, a decision that subjects it to greater surveillance from authorities.
The party known as AfD, which placed second in ...
By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement and sentenced him to four years in prison, in the latest legal move to stifle criticism of the government of Prime Minister ...
By OHAD ZWIGENBERG and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
BEN-GURION INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Israel (AP) — A missile launched by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen briefly halted flights and commuter traffic at Israel's main international airport on Sunday after its impact near an access road ...
PARIS (AP) — The United Nations agency that promotes education, science and culture and also works for the preservation of outstanding cultural and natural heritage around the world is abruptly losing one of its 194 member states. It marks a blow to the Paris-based body that is also in U.S. ...
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism officers arrested four Iranian men over an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target and three others over a national security threat, police said Sunday. The government called them the biggest "counter state threat ...
By ALI SHARAFEDDINE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
HARET HREIK, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese voted Sunday in the country's first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The first round of voting, which is taking ...
By JAMEY KEATEN and FARNOUSHI AMIRI Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations officials have circulated proposals for a vast consolidation of its operations and other sweeping reforms to root out inefficiencies, overlaps and cost overruns as the world body faces a critical ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Friday rejected a ruling from the United Nations' top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region in neighboring Guyana that both nations claim ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces were preparing on Friday to carry out home demolitions across two northern urban refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the governor of one of the camps and Israeli military documents shared with The ...
LONDON (AP) — For Ethel Caterham, the trick to a long life — and in her case, it really has been — is not to argue.
Caterham, who is 115, became the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group, after Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher, died ...
By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — "Conclave" the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries and created a whole genre of historical ...
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities warned the Hamas group Friday that it would face the "harshest measures" if it carried out any attacks from Lebanon.
The warning by the Higher Defense Council, Lebanon's top military body, came weeks after several ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The discussions have taken place in an ornate Kremlin hall, on the polished marble of St. Peter's Basilica and in a famously contentious session in the Oval Office of the White House.
What's emerged so far from the Washington-led ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to Pope Francis.
Vatican firefighters were seen on the ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday he will run in next month's presidential election and would seek to lessen the powers of the office and ease strife-ridden domestic politics if he wins.
Han's entry ...
By HANNA ARHIROVA and ELISE MORTON Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people Thursday, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. ...
By RAJESH ROY and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.
Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw didn't say when ...