By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is poised to start suspending the licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors as a punitive measure against their weekslong walkouts that have shaken hospital operations.
Starting next week, the government said ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia's Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Venezuela's government would have it, President Nicolás Maduro and members of his inner circle have been the target of several conspiracies since last year that could have left them injured or worse.
Few details have been ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States called for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N. resolution declaring that "an immediate and sustained cease-fire" in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is "imperative" to protect civilians and enable ...
By LAURIE KELLMAN and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The teeth clench. The brow furrows. The bicep bulges.
In moody black and white, photos of French President Emmanuel Macron pounding a punching bag arched eyebrows across Europe on Thursday after his official photographer ...
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday appointed his son as top commander of the military, a controversial move in a country where many have long believed Museveni is grooming his eldest child for the ...
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A legal adviser to the European Union's top court recommended Thursday that it annul an agreement with Morocco which would have allowed European boats to fish off the disputed Western Sahara 's coast.
The adviser said the agreement didn't fully take into account the ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station moments before they were scheduled to lift off Thursday, but the crew was safe, officials said.
The Russian Soyuz rocket was to carry NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and ...
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Forty-seven years ago, before her hair turned white and she had no need of a wheelchair to march around Argentina's most iconic square, Nora Cortiñas made a promise to her son who disappeared: She would search for ...
BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament on Thursday welcomed its first deaf lawmaker, who took her place in a moment that the house's speaker described as historic.
Heike Heubach, 44, narrowly missed out on a seat in parliament's lower house, or Bundestag, in Germany's 2021 election. But she ...