By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country's northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was destroyed, creating deep fears ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French president Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize "aid in dying" that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication, a first in the country.
The move follows last year's report indicating that ...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is importing massive amounts of beef and lamb to confront an explosion in demand for meat expected throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, hoping to stabilize prices as the country's economy continues to struggle.
The oil-rich North African nation is ...
By ROBERT BADENDIECK and EMRAH GUREL Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — In the heart of Istanbul, on top of the towering minarets that dot the city's skyline, 68-year-old Kahraman Yildiz toils away at a craft that has illuminated the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for generations.
Yildiz, a ...
By ALEX BABENKO, HANNA ARHIROVA, SUSIE BLANN and LORI HINNANT Associated Press
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — One Ukrainian brigade had defended the same block of industrial buildings for months without a break. Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired ...
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's political future is hanging in the balance after a general election Sunday, with two moderate mainstream parties closely contesting the race and set to wait weeks for a decision on the winner after an unprecedented surge ...
By AMIR AMAN KIYARO Associated Press
NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death in ...
By TOM ODULA Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi's phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is responsible for the "physical violence" that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, laws and its ruling theocracy, a ...