By EVENS SANON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. military said Sunday that it had flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and allow nonessential personnel to leave.
The aircraft flew to the embassy compound, the U.S. Southern Command said, ...
GENEVA (AP) — Five cross-country skiers — including members of the same Swiss family — were found dead along a high Alpine ridge after going missing over the weekend near Switzerland's famed Matterhorn. Swiss police said Monday. Another skier remains missing.
Christian Varone, commander ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — Sweden's national flag was raised at NATO headquarters on Monday, cementing the Nordic country's place as the 32nd member two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine persuaded its reluctant public to seek safety under the alliance's security ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country's northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was destroyed, creating deep fears ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French president Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize "aid in dying" that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication, a first in the country.
The move follows last year's report indicating that ...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is importing massive amounts of beef and lamb to confront an explosion in demand for meat expected throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, hoping to stabilize prices as the country's economy continues to struggle.
The oil-rich North African nation is ...
By ROBERT BADENDIECK and EMRAH GUREL Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — In the heart of Istanbul, on top of the towering minarets that dot the city's skyline, 68-year-old Kahraman Yildiz toils away at a craft that has illuminated the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for generations.
Yildiz, a ...
By ALEX BABENKO, HANNA ARHIROVA, SUSIE BLANN and LORI HINNANT Associated Press
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — One Ukrainian brigade had defended the same block of industrial buildings for months without a break. Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired ...
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's political future is hanging in the balance after a general election Sunday, with two moderate mainstream parties closely contesting the race and set to wait weeks for a decision on the winner after an unprecedented surge ...
By AMIR AMAN KIYARO Associated Press
NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death in ...
By TOM ODULA Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi's phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International ...
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 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 ...