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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen applauds during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the European Parliament, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
EU seeks specialized court to investigate Russia war crimes
The European Union wants to set up a U.N.-backed specialized court to investigate possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday … more
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Pakistani security officials inspect at damaged truck at the site of suicide bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers outside Quetta, wounding more than 20 others, mostly policemen, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
3 dead as bomber hits Pakistan police protecting polio teams
Officials say a suicide bomber has killed three people and wounded nearly two dozen others in an attack on a truck carrying police officers tasked with protecting polio workers near Quetta. Ghulam … more
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FILE - President of Colombia Gustavo Petro arrives for a diner at the Elysee Palace to close the Peace Forum event, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022 in Paris. In a letter released Tuesday Nov. 29, Colombia said that it wants the Biden administration to grant temporary legal status to its citizens now living in the United States, noting its own efforts to address regional migration by hosting 2 million Venezuelans who fled their homes. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
Colombia asks for legal status for its people already in US
Colombia wants the Biden administration to grant temporary legal status to its citizens now living in the United States, noting its own efforts to address regional migration by hosting 2 million … more
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FILE - A woman, center, leaves to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office at Ulsan Jungbu police station in Ulsan, South Korea, on Sept. 15, 2022. A South Korean court has approved the extradition of the 42-year-old woman facing murder charges in New Zealand over her possible connection to the bodies of two long-dead children found abandoned in suitcases in August. The Seoul High Court said Friday, Nov. 11, its decision came after the unidentified woman agreed to be sent back to New Zealand. (Bae Byung-soo/Newsis via AP, File)
Bodies-in-suitcases suspect appears in New Zealand court
A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases has made her first court appearance in New Zealand. The 42-year-old woman … more
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FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei, left, attend the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei, a close ally of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, has died at age 64, the state news agency Belta reported Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. No cause of death was stated. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
Belarus' top diplomat buried as his death raises suspicions
Belarus has given a state funeral to its foreign minister who died suddenly at age 64, triggering speculation about possible foul play in his death after he leaned toward Western countries. … more
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FILE - WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom after a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 4, 2022. A senior Russian diplomat says that Russia and the United States have repeatedly come close to reaching agreement on a prisoner exchange and a deal remains possible before the year's end. The Biden administration long has been trying to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American jailed in Russia, corporate security executive Paul Whelan, including through a possible prisoner swap with Moscow. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russian diplomat says prisoner swap with US remains possible
A senior Russian diplomat says that Russia and the United States have repeatedly come close to reaching agreement on a prisoner exchange and a deal remains possible before the year’s end. The Biden … more
A monkey looks out from its cage at a Ministry of Environment rehabilitation center in Panama City, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Panamanian authorities are trying to raise awareness about the dangers, to humans and wildlife, of keeping wild animals in their homes. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Panama confronts illegal trafficking of animals
In a tropical forest beside the Panama Canal, two endangered, black-handed spider monkeys swing about their wire enclosure balanced by their long tails. They arrived at this government rehabilitation … more
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, from left, Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-15 mission Zhang Lu, Fei Junlong and Deng Qingming wave during a meeting of the press at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Final preparations were being made Monday to send the new three-person crew to China's space station as it nears completion amid intensifying competition with the United States. (Liu Lei/Xinhua via AP)
China launches 3 astronauts to complete space station
China has launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to complete construction of space station. The crew of the Shenzhou-15 will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard … more
FILE - Judge Igor Tuleya, critical of the right-wing government's overhaul of the judiciary, speaks to supporters outside the Supreme Court in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday April 21, 2021. Poland’s Supreme Court has reinstated a judge who was suspended for two years. The judge had become a symbol of the struggle for independent courts under a populist government. The Supreme Court also said that Judge Igor Tuleya was not guilty of a crime which prosecutors had accused him of. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Prominent Polish judge reinstated amid standoff with EU
Poland’s Supreme Court has reinstated a judge who was suspended for two years. The judge had become a symbol of the struggle for independent courts under Poland's populist government. The Supreme … more
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Pope Francis walks past a Vatican Swiss Guard as he arrives to meet with members of the Italian Schools for Peace Network in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Russia protests pope comments as Vatican seeks to mediate
Russia is complaining about Pope Francis’ latest condemnation of atrocities in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s ambassador to the Holy See says he lodged a formal protest with the Vatican to express … more
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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Mufid Khalil during his funeral in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Khalil was killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday. The Israeli military said soldiers shot at Palestinians who hurled rocks and improvised explosive devices and shot at the troops. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
4 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in occupied West Bank
Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man who rammed his car into an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, badly injuring her. He was the fourth Palestinian killed in a series of … more
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Russian opposition activist and former municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district Ilya Yashin stands in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Yashin, one of the few prominent opposition figures to have remained in the country amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent was arrested in June in a Moscow park and later was charged with spreading false information about the Russian military — a new criminal offense for which he faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian opposition figure Yashin goes on trial
A court in Moscow has opened the trial of a prominent Russian opposition figure who faces charges stemming from his criticism of the Kremlin’s action in Ukraine. Ilya Yashin, one of the few Kremlin … more
FILE - The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby listens to debate at the General Synod in London, on Feb. 13, 2017. Less than half of people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census – the first time the country's official religion has been followed by a minority of the population. Figures from the 2021 census released Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, by the Office for National Statistics reveal that Britain has become less religious, and less white, in the decade since the last census in 2011. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Census: Christians a minority in England; non-religious grow
The latest U.K. census has found that less than half of people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian. It is first time the country’s official religion has been followed by a minority … more
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A rescue worker makes tea for children at the heating tent "Point of Invincibly" in Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Uneasy calm grips Ukraine as West prepares winter aid
An uneasy calm is hanging over Kyiv as residents of the Ukrainian capital did what they could to prepare for expected further Russian missile attacks aiming to take out infrastructure as winter sets … more
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FILE - A worker in protective suit walks through the caution tapes along metal barricades retail shops that has been locked down as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing, Sunday, June 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
EXPLAINER: Why are China's COVID rules so strict?
At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China set out its “zero-COVID” measures that were harsh, but not out of line with what many other countries were doing to try and contain the virus. … more
In this photo released by Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society on Tuesday Nov. 29, 2022, three men are photographed on an oil tanker anchored in the port of the Canary Islands, Spain. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says it has rescued three stowaways traveling on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands after the vessel sailed there from Nigeria. The men were found on the Alithini II oil tanker at the Las Palmas port. (Salvamento Maritimo via AP)
Stowaways found on a ship's rudder in Spain's Canary Islands
Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says it has rescued three stowaways traveling on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands after the vessel sailed there from Nigeria. The men, found on the Alithini … more
FILE - Pakistan army Lt. Gen. Syed Asim Munir attends a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, Nov. 1, 2022. Munir, a former spymaster, takes charge as Pakistan's new military chief amid a government standoff with former prime minister Imran Khan and the end of a monthslong cease-fire between the government and the Pakistani Taliban. (AP Photo/W.K. Yousufzai, File)
Pakistan's new army chief takes charge of military
Pakistan’s new military chief has taken command of the country's armed forces. The army has historically wielded huge influence in Pakistan, ruling it for half of the country's 75-year history. … more
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A boy kisses a dog while he charges his phone at the heating tent "Point of Invincibly" in Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine's 'Invincibility' centers offer refuge, resilience
Ukraine has rolled out hundreds of “Points of Invincibility” — a defiant name for makeshift centers often no larger than an executive's conference room where beleaguered citizens can warm up, … more
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gestures during joint statements with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, a day before the start of the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. NATO returns to the scene of one of its most controversial decisions and where it intends to repeat its vow that Ukraine, now suffering through the tenth month of a war against Russia, will be able to join the world's biggest military alliance one day. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre)
NATO ministers meet to drum up more aid, arms for Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his NATO counterparts are gathering in Romania to drum up urgently needed support for Ukraine, including deliveries of electrical components for the … more
In this Nov. 23, 2022 photo, Igor shows the remains of marks on his back after allegedly being tortured by Russian forces in Kherson. The 22-year-old, accused of providing Ukrainians with Russia's military positions, was stung with a taser along his back for two and half hours and then forced to stay awake, seated in a chair all night. He was freed after two days but not before writing a letter providing details about a relative of his uncle's who the Russians wanted information on. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Torture allegations mount in aftermath of Kherson occupation
Ukrainian authorities are investigating sites where torture allegedly took place in the city of Kherson. More than two weeks after Russians retreated from the southern city, investigators say five … more
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