PARIS (AP):French voters elected centrist Emmanuel Macron as the country's youngest ever president yesterday, delivering a resounding victory to the unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France's place as a central...
ABUJA (AP):Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari expressed joy last night at meeting with the 82 Chibok schoolgirls newly freed from Boko Haram extremists - then jolted the country by announcing he was leaving for London immediately for medical...
PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AP):Indonesian authorities said about 200 inmates remained at large two days after a mass escape from an overcrowded prison on Sumatra island.The prison break on Friday occurred...
SEOUL (AP):North Korea yesterday said it detained another American citizen over unspecified hostile acts against the country.North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim...
Pakistan, Afghanistan dispute toll after clashesQUETTA, Pakistan (AP):Pakistan said yesterday that its forces killed at least 50 Afghan troops and destroyed five checkpoints in clashes along the disputed border two days earlier, while Afghanistan...
WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Donald Trump is offering praise and congratulations to centrist Emmanuel Macron, who was elected as France's youngest president ever.Trump described Macron's victory over far-right opponent Marine Le Pen in...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Women banged on pans and some stripped off their white shirts Saturday as they protested Venezuela's socialist government in an event the opposition billed as a "women's march against...
PARIS (AP) -- Ripping up France's political map, French voters elected independent centrist Emmanuel Macron as the country's youngest president Sunday, delivering a resounding victory to the unabashedly pro-European former investment banker...
Polling agencies have projected that centrist Emmanuel Macron will be France's next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world's biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. The agencies...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- The 82 freed Chibok schoolgirls arrived in Nigeria's capital on Sunday to meet President Muhammadu Buhari as anxious families awaited an official list of names and looked forward to reuniting three years after the mass...
PARIS (AP) -- French voters decided Sunday whether to back pro-business independent Emmanuel Macron or far-right populist Marine Le Pen as their next president, casting ballots in an unusually tense and important presidential election that also...
PARIS (AP):After ditching France's traditional left-right main political parties in a first-round election, French voters are today choosing between Emmanuel Macron's business-friendly, pro-European vision and Marine Le Pen's protectionist, closed-...
PARIS (AP):France's election campaign commission said yesterday "a significant amount of data" has been leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign.The attack came 36 hours before the...
A roundup of some of the most wildly popular, but completely untrue, headlines of last week.None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. AP checked these out; here are the real facts:NOT REALDonald Trump...
KATHMANDU, (AP):An 85-year-old man from Nepal died yesterday while attempting to scale Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to climb the world's highest peak, officials said.Min Bahadur Sherchan died at the Everest base camp on...
WARSAW (AP):Thousands of Poles marched through Warsaw yesterday to protest the policies of the populist ruling party under Jaroslaw Kaczynski, describing them as attacks on the country's democracy.This came even as a yearly pro-EU parade called the...
PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AP): Indonesian authorities are searching for scores of inmates who escaped Friday from an overcrowded prison on Sumatra island. Hundreds of police and soldiers were deployed near Sialang Bungkuk Prison in Pekanbaru, the...
WASHINGTON (AP):Air travel in the United States has become a combustible mix in which passengers are not the only ones treated unfairly, senators were told yesterday. Travellers all too frequently take out their frustrations on airline employees,...
CONAKRY (AP):The head of the World Health Organization praised Guineans yesterday for their role in helping to develop a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus, as Guinea's president said he hoped the vaccine could...
ATHENS (AP):Over the past seven years, austerity has left visible scars in Greece's capital.A walk around Athens reveals more homeless people than ever despite some signs of a rosier economic...
ATLANTA (AP):Prosecutors say a federal inmate in Atlanta and his fiancÈe ran an "inmate taxi service," taking inmates around town to restaurants and hotels and returning them to prison in...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Philip, the consort known for his steadfast support of his wife Queen Elizabeth II as well as for his occasional gaffes, will retire from royal duties this fall, Buckingham Palace said Thursday. Philip, 95, made the...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of protesters were met with plumes of tear gas in Venezuela's capital Wednesday, just miles from where President Nicolas Maduro delivered a decree kicking off a process to rewrite the troubled nation...
BILLERICA, Mass. (AP):A SUV being shown to prospective buyers at a crowded indoor auto auction suddenly accelerated with a screech of its tyres and crashed through a wall yesterday morning,...
BEIRUT (AP):The presidents of Russia and Turkey said yesterday they support the creation of safe zones in war-torn Syria as a delegation of Syrian rebels walked out of cease fire talks with the...
