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BEIJING (AP) — For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing …
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By JOE McDONALD
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2/18/21
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the corpses of people they knew. …
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By CARA ANNA
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2/18/21
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BEIRUT (AP) —
The deaths stacked up: a policeman shot dead with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a local official gunned down, his son wounded, an Iraqi man beheaded. In total, 20 men and …
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By BASSEM MROUE
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2/18/21
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates is dismantling parts of a military base it runs in the East African nation of Eritrea after it pulled back from the grinding war in …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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2/18/21
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TOKYO (AP) — Seiko Hashimoto appeared in seven Olympics — four Winter Olympics and three Summer Olympics. According to historian Dr. Bill Mallon, her seven appearances is the most by any …
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By STEPHEN WADE
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2/17/21
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GAUHATI, India (AP) — Once school is done for the day, 10-year-old Imradul Ali rushes home to change out of his uniform so he can start his job as a scavenger in India’s remote …
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By ANUPAM NATH
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2/17/21
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SERRANA, Brazil (AP) — As Brazil's mayors and governors start sounding the alarm over dwindling supplies of coronavirus vaccines, there are no such complaints in Serrana, a city that Sao Paulo's …
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By DIANE JEANTET and TATIANA POLLASTRI
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2/17/21
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MOSCOW (AP) — Europe's top human rights court has ordered Russia to release jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a ruling that will be unlikely to soften the Kremlin's determination to isolate …
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
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2/17/21
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TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is about to get a new president — and it looks like it will be a woman.
According to a report in Japan, the job will be offered to …
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By STEPHEN WADE
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2/17/21
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyans on Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of their 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow and eventual killing of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
The day comes as …
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2/17/21
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JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel, the sprint to the March 23 election is striking a notable resemblance to the American presidential brawl in 2020.
Candidates are holding virtual events or limited …
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By LAURIE KELLMAN
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2/17/21
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The U.N. expert on human rights in Myanmar warned of the prospect for major violence as demonstrators gather again Wednesday to protest the military’s seizure of …
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2/16/21
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Peaceful demonstrations against Myanmar’s military takeover resumed Tuesday, following violence against protesters a day earlier by security forces and after internet …
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2/16/21
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NEW DELHI (AP) — When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world’s second-most populous country. Infections climbed …
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By KRUTIKA PATHI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
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2/16/21
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States still grapple with the same, seemingly intractable conundrum — how to withdraw …
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By KATHY GANNON
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2/16/21
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LONDON (AP) — Larry the cat, a four-legged inhabitant of London’s 10 Downing St., is marking a decade as Britain’s mouse-catcher in chief on Monday.
The tabby cat was recruited by then-Prime …
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By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA
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2/15/21
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As people in Auckland adjusted to a new lockdown on Monday, health officials said they'd found no evidence the coronavirus had spread further in the community, …
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By NICK PERRY
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2/15/21
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JERUSALEM (AP) — After surging ahead in the race to vaccinate its population against the coronavirus, Israel is blaming online misinformation for a sudden slowdown in the campaign. Now, officials …
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By ISAAC SCHARF and ILAN BEN ZION
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2/15/21
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NEW DELHI (AP) — What if COVID-19 never goes away?
Experts say it's likely that some version of the disease will linger for years. But what it will look like in the future is less clear.
Will …
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and CHRISTINA LARSON
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2/14/21
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Sunday formally approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said it would start nationwide inoculations within days, but months behind the U.S. and many other …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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2/14/21
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