PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Authorities in Haiti have ordered a night-time curfew after an explosion of violence when gang gunmen overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend. A 72-hour state of emergency began Sunday...
PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill that will enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in France's constitution, a historic move designed to prevent the kind of rollback of abortion rights seen in the...
LONDON (AP) — The Church of England should create a fund of £1 billion to address its historic links to slavery, an advisory panel said Monday. That's 10 times the amount the church previously set aside. An independent oversight...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the...
KING CITY, California (AP) — A group of men in masks opened fire at an outdoor party in central California, killing four people and injuring three others Sunday evening, police said. Police responded to a reported shooting around 6 p.m. in...
SEOUL (AP): Thousands of senior doctors rallied in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical...
WASHINGTON (AP): As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could. “You’re not really voting for anything,” said Miller, who left the Democratic...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time as allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan in parliament shouted in protest, alleging rigging...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralysed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city's transit agency. A city jury found in favour of Aurora...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Heavy rains that swept across Pakistan have left at least 36 people dead and 50 others injured, collapsed houses and triggered landslides that blocked roads, particularly in the northwest, authorities said Sunday....
NITEROI (AP) — Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen dengue health centres and trained medical staff to...
PIURA, Peru (AP) — Residents of Pedregal Grande, a poor neighbourhood in the Peruvian city of Piura, receive water for only 30 minutes a day because of shortages, forcing them to collect it in plastic tanks that have become breeding grounds...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States military C-130 cargo planes on Saturday dropped food in pallets over Gaza, three US officials said, two days after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Heavy gunfire paralysed Haiti’s capital Thursday, and at least four police officers were slain, as a powerful gang leader announced that he would try to capture the country’s police chief and government ministers. The move...
JAMNAGAR, (AP): It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he’s expecting billionaires from around the world, heads of state...
SAN JUAN (AP): Armed forces from the Netherlands have been deployed to help clean up oil affecting beaches in the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire originating from an offshore spill blamed on an overturned barge hundreds of miles away. The...
AP: Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. Navalny was buried at a cemetery in...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators taking part in a World Trade Organization meeting in the United Arab Emirates ended their summit early Saturday after failing to reach agreements on several major initiatives, the latest sign of...
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, US health officials announced Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its longstanding guidance, saying that...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the United States, dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a...
BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — A girl walking to school Thursday morning on Long Island found a severed arm on the side of the road. Police searching the area then discovered another arm and a disembodied leg nearby, authorities in New York said....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A fire at a six-storey shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital overnight killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others, with several people escaping to the building's roof, officials said Friday. The...
MIAMI (AP): A former US ambassador said Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades, bringing an unexpectedly fast resolution to a case prosecutors described as one of the most brazen...
MADRID (AP): A Spanish bishop rebuked comments made by some priests on a weekly Internet programme about praying for Pope Francis to die as soon as possible. The priests later apologised. Archbishop Francisco Cerro Chaves of Toledo posted a...
