By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against transgender people in Brazil, which has the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. The death of the one-time chess prodigy was announced by the International ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued his slow recovery from double pneumonia on Thursday, beating back speculation of an imminent death, resignation or conclave and signalling that he was still very much in charge albeit in a weakened state. The Vatican ...

BERLIN (AP) — A two-day strike by workers at Munich Airport, Germany's second-biggest, started Thursday and resulted in most flights being canceled. The airport operator said airlines had canceled about 80% of their flights to and from Munich and further cancelations were not ruled out. The ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A man revered by millions as the "doctor of the poor" will be the first saint from Venezuela after Pope Francis approved a decree Tuesday. A date for the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, who died in 1919, has not been set. The Vatican in a statement ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A small group of foreign tourists has visited North Korea in the past week, making them the first international travelers to enter the country in five years except for a group of Russian tourists who went to the North last ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp. to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday, ending what became a financial ...

By MARÍA VERZA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it's a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries. Venezuelans from ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks and balances and was "systematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country through severe human rights violations," a panel of United Nations experts warned Wednesday. The report by ...

By AMER COHADZIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Wednesday sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in the fragile ...