By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders called for an emergency meeting in Jamaica with the United States, Canada and France on Monday to seek a way out of spiraling gang violence in Haiti.
Members of the Caricom regional trade bloc have been trying ...
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve Haiti's poor — a consequence of the unrelenting gang attacks that have paralyzed the ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in prison, which devastated Kremlin critics and spurred ...
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters will elect 230 lawmakers to the National Assembly, the country's parliament. The lawmakers will then choose a new government.
Two moderate ...
By KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong unveiled a proposed law that threatens life imprisonment for residents who "endanger national security" on Friday, deepening worries about erosion of the city's freedoms four years after Beijing imposed a similar law ...
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship was preparing Friday to leave Cyprus and head for Gaza with humanitarian aid, the European Commission president said, as international donors launch a sea corridor to supply the besieged territory facing widespread ...
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria's northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier in the latest mass kidnap, which analysts and activists blamed on ...
By MOHAMED JAHJOUH, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It's not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in war-ravaged Gaza — now some are dying of hunger too.
Officials have long warned over the risk of famine in the Palestinian territory that's ...
By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, a powerful message of support for women's rights on International Women's Day.
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti used a 19th-century printing press to seal the ...
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — China saw large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year, according to reports presented Friday to the National People's Congress that stressed the ruling Communist Party's determination to safeguard national ...