By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the next day at the brazen assassination. Police stood ...
By TOM GOULD and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis sought to encourage his child protection board on Thursday to continue helping victims, as new developments outside the Vatican underscored that the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal isn't going away anytime ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old girl who has been missing in South Africa for nearly three weeks was arrested and charged Thursday with kidnapping and selling or trafficking her daughter, a shocking twist in a case that has seized ...
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press
CELAYA, Mexico (AP) — A dead man lay on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store in late February when journalists rolled in to the north-central Mexico city of Celaya to interview police. A spray of bullet casings and spent projectiles lay ...
By SAM METZ Associated Press
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — For years, Fatima Mhattar has welcomed shopkeepers, students, bankers and retirees to Hammam El Majd, a public bath on the outskirts of Morocco's capital, Rabat. For a handful of change, they relax in a haze of steam then are scrubbed down ...
EVENS SANON Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars, which have spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country's president. Gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered, taking advantage of ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged Sudan's warring parties on Thursday to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country's unity and "could ignite regional ...
By JOSEPH WILSON and RENATA BRITO Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain's Catalonia region rolled out a pioneering women's health initiative this week that offers reusable menstruation products for free.
About 2.5 million women, girls, transgender and nonbinary people who ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Backlash from the Orthodox Church of Greece against a landmark law allowing same-sex civil marriage intensified Tuesday, with a regional bishopric imposing a religious ban on two local lawmakers who backed the reform.
Church authorities on the northwestern island of ...