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Dec 16, 2018
People have filled a square in the French city of Strasbourg to show respect and sympathy for the victims of last week's shooting attack near a famous Christmas market as the death toll rose to five
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Dec 16, 2018
Brazilian police in the central state of Goias say the celebrity faith healer accused of sexually abusing more than 300 women has surrendered to authorities after spending nearly a day as a fugitive
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Dec 16, 2018
Croatian authorities are denying a report by an international watchdog group that the country's police are illegally and sometimes violently pushing migrants back into neighboring Bosnia
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Dec 16, 2018
The leader of Romania's ruling party says the country's president should be charged with treason after he said Romania wasn't prepared to assume the European Union's rotating presidency
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Dec 16, 2018
Sudan's president has become the first Arab League leader to visit Syria since a war erupted there nearly eight years ago
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Dec 16, 2018
Facebook has temporarily blocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair for writing a post criticizing the social media platform as "thought police."
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Dec 16, 2018
Iraqi religious leaders have laid the cornerstone to rebuild Mosul's landmark al-Nuri Grand Mosque, which was blown up in the battle with Islamic State militants in 2017
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Dec 16, 2018
Sri Lanka's president on Sunday launched a scathing verbal attack at his reappointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe accusing his leadership of being corrupt and anti-national, casting doubt on any immediate end to the country's restive politics
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Dec 16, 2018
Canada's ambassador to China was given access to detained Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor six days after he was arrested in China
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Dec 16, 2018
Russians living in the far eastern region of Primorsky Krai elected a Kremlin-backed candidate for governor after results from a previous election were thrown out due to alleged voting fraud
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Dec 16, 2018
The website of Iran's Revolutionary Guard is reporting that a general who fought in Syria and Iraq has allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun
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Dec 16, 2018
Several thousand protesters have marched peacefully through Budapest for a fourth day to oppose laws introduced by the Hungarian government that critics say will restrict workers' rights
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Dec 16, 2018
A Revolutionary Guard general who fought in Syria and Iraq has accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun
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Dec 16, 2018
The well-preserved tomb belonged to a royal priest named Wahtye and is filled with drawings of his family.
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Dec 16, 2018
Residents of the eastern French city of Strasbourg have filled a city square for a memorial to the four people shot dead and the dozen wounded by a gunman at their famous Christmas market
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Dec 16, 2018
Fighting around Yemen's port city of Hodeida leaves 12 dead and 25 injured
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Dec 16, 2018
Iranian semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that a detained activist who died last week was a member of terrorist group planning attacks
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Dec 16, 2018
Army veteran killed a suspected Taliban bombmaker in 2010 and was charged by the Army last week.
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Dec 16, 2018
Japanese police say 42 people have been injured in an explosion at a restaurant in northern Japan
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Dec 16, 2018
Russians living in the far eastern region of Primorsky Krai elected a Kremlin-backed candidate for governor after a previous election was thrown out due to voting fraud
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Dec 16, 2018
The power struggle between the president and prime minister threatened to derail the country's democracy.
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Dec 16, 2018
Turkey's foreign minister is expressing impatience with the United States for not extraditing a cleric whom the Turkish government alleges masterminded a failed 2016 coup
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Dec 16, 2018
Japanese police say more than 40 people have been injured in an explosion at a restaurant in northern Japan
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Dec 16, 2018
Police have used tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators who assembled around the European Union's headquarters in Brussels to protest the adoption of a United Nations migration pact
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Dec 16, 2018
Japanese police say more than 40 people injured in an explosion at a restaurant in northern Japan
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Dec 16, 2018
Croatian authorities are denying a report by an international watchdog group that the country's police are illegally and sometimes violently pushing migrants back into neighboring Bosnia
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Dec 16, 2018
A human rights activist says Moscow police have arrested at least five protesters at an unsanctioned rally outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB
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Dec 16, 2018
Chester Zoo says insects, frogs, fish and small birds perished in a fire that broke out in an enclosure devoted to exotic tropical habitats
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Dec 16, 2018
New Ukrainian Orthodox leader urges peace and unity in first liturgy
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Dec 16, 2018
Residents of the eastern French city of Strasbourg have filled a city square for a memorial to the four people shot dead and the dozen wounded by a gunman at their famous Christmas market
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Dec 16, 2018
Bavarian authorities say the 38-year-old German man arrested in connection with stabbing three women in Nuremberg last week has a long criminal record, including a sexual assault conviction
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Dec 16, 2018
At least two Rwandan civilians were killed and eight injured when attackers set fire to three passenger vehicles in the southern Nyamagabe district, which borders Burundi, said a Rwandan army official
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Dec 16, 2018
Pope Francis is expressing hope that the new, U.N. global pact for safe, orderly migration, spurs solidarity toward migrants
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Dec 16, 2018
A strong earthquake has struck Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage
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Dec 16, 2018
Sri Lanka's president has reappointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister, nearly two months after firing him and setting off a long political stalemate in the South Asian island nation
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Dec 16, 2018
Hundreds of Lebanese have taken to the streets to protest against a political stalemate that has prevented the formation of a new government seven months after elections
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Dec 16, 2018
Syrian activists say a bomb blast in a northern town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces has killed at least eight people
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Dec 16, 2018
Russians living in the far eastern region of Primorsky Krai have voted for a new governor after previous election was tainted by fraud
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Dec 16, 2018
A gathering is being held in a central square of the eastern French city of Strasbourg to pay homage to the victims of a gunman who killed four people and wounded a dozen more several days ago
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Dec 16, 2018
Zurich police say a tour bus on its way to Germany has crashed in Switzerland, killing one person and injuring 44 others
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Dec 16, 2018
Sri Lanka's president has reappointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister, nearly two months after firing him and setting off a long political stalemate in the South Asian island nation
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Dec 16, 2018
South African tussle over statue of 19th century white leader echoes similar US debate on Confederacy monuments
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Dec 16, 2018
The Israeli military says it has exposed a fourth Hezbollah attack tunnel dug from Lebanon
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Dec 16, 2018
North Koreans are marking the anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il seven years ago with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son, Kim Jong Un
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Dec 16, 2018
A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, ejecting columns of thick ash as high as 7,500 meters (24,606 feet) into the sky
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Dec 16, 2018
Reporter Mimi Mefo Takambou was detained for tweeting reports of government culpability in an American missionary's death.
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Dec 16, 2018
Pakistan has lodged a protest with Iran over the killing of six paramilitary troops who were ambushed by militants while patrolling the border
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Dec 16, 2018
AP Interview: Jailed Catalan separatist politicians on hunger strike for the past two weeks say their upcoming trial will be a platform to foster their cause for independence from Spain.
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Dec 16, 2018
North Koreans are marking the anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il seven years ago with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son, Kim Jong Un
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Dec 16, 2018
Sri Lanka's president has reappointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister, nearly two months after firing him and setting off weeks of political stalemate
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Dec 16, 2018
Sri Lankan president has reinstated Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister after nearly 2 months of political impasse
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Dec 16, 2018
A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule has shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir a day after protests and fighting killed seven civilians and four combatants.
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Dec 16, 2018
Pakistan's army chief has approved death sentences for 15 people convicted by military courts of involvement in attacks that killed 32 security forces and two civilians
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Dec 16, 2018
When Emili Espinoza was finally able to make a video call to the 3-year-old son she hadn't seen since fleeing Venezuela months before, the little boy named Elvis didn't recognize her
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Dec 15, 2018
The man described as the father of the 29-year-old suspect in this week's deadly Christmas market attack in Strasbourg says his son subscribed to the beliefs of the Islamic State group
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Dec 15, 2018
Police in Kashmir say Indian forces who were exchanging fire with insurgents have fatally shot at least seven civilians when large crowds descended on the site of the gunbattle in support of the militants
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Dec 15, 2018
In early writings, Gandhi argued that the British colonial government treated Indians "little better, if at all, than the savages or the Natives of Africa."
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Dec 15, 2018
The agreement among nearly 200 nations, reached after two weeks of negotiations in Poland, includes a "rule book" that would govern how countries report their emissions and fund climate action. The deal is an important step in implementing the promises of the 2015 Paris Agreement for combating climate change. But critics argued that Saturday's agreement […]
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Dec 15, 2018
The decision by a federal judge in Texas sparked criticism but will not immediately change anything.
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Dec 15, 2018
German police say they have a man in custody suspected in the stabbing of three women in the southern city of Nuremberg
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Dec 15, 2018
Greta Thunberg spoke at the global climate conference in Poland, telling officials they 'are too scared of being unpopular' to take action on climate change.
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Dec 15, 2018
Greta Thunberg spoke at the global climate conference in Poland, telling officials they 'are too scared of being unpopular' to take action on climate change.
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Dec 15, 2018
About forty gay couples have gotten married in downtown Sao Paulo, tying the knot partly out of fear that the new administration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro could restrict same sex marriage.
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Dec 15, 2018
Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head the new church, officials said
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Dec 15, 2018
A British zoo says a fire has broken out at one of its enclosures and that visitors were evacuated
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Dec 15, 2018
Police in the Maldives say they have questioned the country's defeated former strongman president over complaints of alleged illegal financial transactions a day after they froze bank accounts with millions of dollars
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Dec 15, 2018
Ukrainian Orthodox leaders say they have approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head the new church
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Dec 15, 2018
The 552-carat yellow diamond is reportedly about the size of a chicken egg.
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Dec 15, 2018
The 552-carat yellow diamond was found in Canada
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Dec 15, 2018
The 552-carat yellow diamond was found in Canada
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Dec 15, 2018
Ukrainian Orthodox leaders have approved the creation of a unified Church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate
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Dec 15, 2018
The surprising discovery may offer a potential boon for coral conservation efforts, experts say.
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Dec 15, 2018
Zimbabwe ruling party OKs president as its 2023 candidate, just months after disputed election
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Dec 15, 2018
Ukraine's military says a Ukrainian Air Force pilot has died when his Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet crashed while attempting to land at a base in the northern region of Zhytomyr
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Dec 15, 2018
Police and residents say seven civilians were killed and over three dozen injured when government forces fired at anti-India protesters in Kashmir following a gunbattle that left three rebels and a soldier dead
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Dec 15, 2018
Support for a do-over has been growing.
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Dec 15, 2018
There are no plans for a new referendum. There probably isn't enough time. But that hasn't stopped speculation of holding a "People's Vote."
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Dec 15, 2018
Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved two underage migrants who were trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar afloat a truck tire
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Dec 15, 2018
Ethiopia sentences 66 soldiers who marched on PM's office in alleged attempt to derail reforms
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Dec 15, 2018
Poland's prime minister and other leaders of the ruling conservative party, long seen as euroskeptic, have set a strongly pro-European tone at a party convention
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Dec 15, 2018
A U.S. military official says fighting against the Islamic State group in its last enclave in eastern Syria "is going very well."
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Dec 15, 2018
Moscow police say an off-duty Russian police lieutenant has been hospitalized after a World War II-era land mine exploded on the side of a highway
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Dec 15, 2018
Egypt has announced the discovery of a private tomb belonging to a senior official from the 5th dynasty of the pharaohs, which ruled roughly 4,400 years ago
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Dec 15, 2018
A British zoo says a fire has broken out at one of its enclosures and that visitors are being evacuated
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Dec 15, 2018
US says new airstrike in Somalia kills 8 al-Shabab fighters; at least 40 such strikes in 2018
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Dec 15, 2018
Genoa mayor says new bridge to be built by Christmas 2019 to replace the one that collapsed
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Dec 15, 2018
Cambodian authorities say they have seized more than 3 tons of rare African ivory hidden inside an abandoned shipping container, the country's largest haul of elephant tusks in the last four years
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Dec 15, 2018
Foreign Minister Miro Cerar told U.S. officials that China and Russia are investing heavily in Balkan countries while Washington's profile is hardly visible.
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Dec 15, 2018
AP Interview: Jailed Catalan separatist politicians on hunger strike for the past two weeks say their upcoming trial will be a platform to foster their cause for independence
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Dec 15, 2018
2 female suicide bombers die in northern Cameroon attack blamed on Nigeria-based extremists
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Dec 15, 2018
Thousands of people have gathered outside a Kiev cathedral to witness the birth of a new Ukrainian Orthodox Church as tensions between Ukraine and Russia continue to drive the two farther apart
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Dec 15, 2018
Here are six 2018 documentaries highly recommended by a few of our correspondents around the world.
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Dec 15, 2018
Europe's "Big Three" have tried to rein in Trump's nationalist impulses, but are now weakened by the same forces.
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Dec 15, 2018
Russia claims Pentagon ignoring efforts to work out nuclear treaty dispute
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Dec 15, 2018
US orders non-emergency staffers from Congo as major election approaches, citing armed unrest
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Dec 15, 2018
A review of 37 cases by an independent watchdog agency slammed Thunder Bay police for inept investigations and systemic racism in its handling of mysterious death cases involving indigenous victims.
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Dec 15, 2018
Turkey says it will continue to defend itself against terrorists after its strikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq sparked criticism from Baghdad
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Dec 15, 2018
Police say seven men have been killed and nearly two dozens injured when government forces fired at anti-India protesters in Kashmir following a gunbattle that left three rebels and a soldier dead
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Dec 15, 2018
Police say they have arrested three people after at least 11 died of suspected food poisoning following a ceremony to celebrate the construction of a new Hindu temple in southern India
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Dec 15, 2018
Sri Lanka's disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned, saying he wants to end a political impasse over his appointment
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