By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The British government published a new official definition of "extremism" on Thursday, and said groups that get the label will be barred from receiving government funding.
The move is in response to a surge in reports of ...
By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press
AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years, Syria's civil war has been a largely frozen conflict, the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of President Bashar Assad, various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform the Palestinian Authority as part of Washington's postwar vision for Gaza.
Mohammad Mustafa, a United ...
By BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's top opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, has been released from prison ahead of the presidential election later this month, triggering jubilant celebrations across the country's capital.
Sonko is widely seen ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.N. atomic agency on Tuesday emphasized to Japan's government the importance of transparency in its ongoing discharges of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
International ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government.
The rules ...
By MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was a somber scene as Randa Baker and her family sat on the ground in their tent in southern Gaza at sunset Monday for their meal breaking their first day of fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Three ...
By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press
Lagos, NIGERIA (AP) — The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent's rich supplies of oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries, deals that have helped China gain ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press
ABOARD THE FRENCH FRIGATE NORMANDIE (AP) — The French navy frigate, bristling with weaponry and powering through frigid Norwegian seas not so far from Russia, awoke at 7:30 a.m. sharp to what, in the circumstances, was a surreal sound.
The 1967 " Summer ...