By LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO, SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — He and his parents were among the last in their village to take a Russian passport, but the pressure was becoming unbearable.
By his third beating at the hands of the Russian ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts said Friday they have gathered new evidence of "horrific" torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war by their Russian jailers, saying such practices could amount to war crimes.
The Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine ...
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has implemented a citizenship law that excludes migrants who are Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government.
The rules for the law were announced ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — City officials in eastern China apologized to local journalists after authorities were shown pushing them and trying to obstruct reporting from the site of a deadly explosion, in a rare acknowledgment of state aggression against ...
By BARBARA SURK Associated Press
NICE, France (AP) — Hundreds of victims of child sexual abuse by priests or church representatives have received financial compensation so far from France's Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations program, an independent body in charge of the process ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — A brother contemplated suicide. A sister stopped going to school. A father barely speaks. With each passing day, the relatives of hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 face a deepening despair.
Their hopes were raised that a cease-fire deal ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions. Plaintiffs and the LGBTQ+ community in Japan cheered it ...
By RISHI LEKHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of farmers protested in India's capital on Thursday to press their demand for a new law that would guarantee minimum crop prices, after weeks of being blocked from entering the city.
They rode crowded buses and ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of Poland's influential Catholic Church on Thursday chose moderate Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda to be their new principal, at a time when the church is still struggling to reckon with the abuse of minors by some Polish clergy, while the number of Poles going to ...
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee ...