By MEGAN JANETSKY and DÉBORA REY Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cities across Latin America were cloaked in purple Friday as hundreds of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Women's Day, coming at a moment of change in a region marred by soaring levels of violence ...
By MICHAEL KEALY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
DUBLIN (AP) — According to Ireland's Constitution, a woman's place is in the home.
Irish voters will decide Friday — International Women's Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are ...
By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The kidnapping of 287 grade school students by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria this week was only the latest in a slew of such raids since the infamous Chibok schoolgirls' abduction by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram a decade ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — A seven-year investigation of a former Irish Republican Army double agent concluded Friday in an interim report that the spy was probably responsible for more deaths than lives saved during Northern Ireland 's three-decade conflict.
The probe, ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of foreigners, including many from the United States and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already shut down both ...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday marched to the country's embassy in Lithuania, holding a photo of her imprisoned husband and demanding information about him after a year of being incommunicado.
Siarhei Tsikhanouski is among ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged Sudan's warring parties on Friday to immediately halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in desperate need of food and other ...
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers approved sweeping reforms early Saturday that will end the state monopoly on university education, breaking what powerful left-wing student groups have long regarded as a major taboo.
Hours ...
A CORUNA, Spain (AP) — Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months.
When she and her 40-foot (12.2-meter) sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by ...
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem's Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity.
Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind metal shutters. The narrow streets that run toward Al-Aqsa ...