Former Indonesian agriculture minister sentenced to 10 years for corruption
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-graft court sentenced a former agriculture minister to 10 years in prison Thursday after finding him guilty of corruption-related...
11 killed as passenger bus collides with pickup truck in northern Philippines
TUGUEGARAO, Philippines (AP) — A bus collided with a pickup truck early Thursday morning, killing 11 people and injuring six others in a northern...
At least 261 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The human rights organization Cristosal said Wednesday that at least 261 people have died in prisons in El...
A pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill University in downtown Montreal is being dismantled
MONTREAL (AP) — McGill University closed its downtown campus on Wednesday as Montreal police descended in large numbers to help clear a pro-Palestinian encampment...
Mexico will build passenger train lines to US border in an expansion of its...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s massive, debt-fueled passenger rail building program is not going to end with the administration of outgoing President Andrés Manuel...
UN declares 2025 to 2034 the decade to combat increasing sand and dust storms...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday declared 2025 to 2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms...
Macron asks political parties to build a broad coalition before he appoints a new...
PARIS (AP) —French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he will wait for the country's political parties to build a "Republican" majority at the National...
Russia declares newspaper The Moscow Times ‘undesirable’ amid crackdown on criticism
The Russian prosecutor general's office on Wednesday declared The Moscow Times, an online newspaper popular among Russia’s expatriate community, as an “undesirable organization.”The designation...
Armed bandits interrupt a rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean off Libya, an aid...
ROME (AP) — An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean says one of its missions was interrupted by armed bandits who boarded...
Belarusian authorities are depriving Nobel Peace Prize laureate of medicine in jail, his wife...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The wife of an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate said Wednesday that the country's authorities are depriving her husband...