Thai royalists submit petition to oust Amnesty International
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai royalists have stepped up their campaign to drive out the country’s branch of rights group Amnesty International, handing…
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Vatican tries to reboot priesthood amid crisis over abuses
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has opened a three-day conference on rebooting the Catholic priesthood amid a drop in…
Continue ReadingSearch ends for survivors from sunken Spanish fishing vessel
MADRID (AP) — Canadian rescuers called off the search for 12 missing crew members from a Spanish fishing vessel that sank in rough seas off…
Continue ReadingSingapore president stops execution of 2 death row inmates
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A lawyer says Singapore’s president has ordered a delay in the execution of two men on death row who are believed…
Continue ReadingIsrael to scrap COVID passport system as omicron wanes
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country’s coronavirus vaccination “green pass” system will be suspended as new daily…
Continue ReadingG-20 finance leaders eye ways to support pandemic recovery
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo told financial leaders of the Group of 20 industrial economies…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand won’t engage Myanmar in largest free trade bloc
By GRANT PECK and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — New Zealand says it will not deal with Myanmar under a major 15-nation trade agreement,…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Robots and Olympics — a potent photo combination
By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The five members of the International Olympic Photo Pool all employ robotics to augment their wire…
Continue Reading5 dead as northern Europe battered by stormy weather
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Meteorologists warned Thursday that northern Europe could be battered by a series of storms over…
Continue ReadingJapan eases border controls amid criticism as exclusionist
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan will ease its tough COVID-19 border controls by increasing the number of people allowed to…
Continue ReadingIt’s still Bangkok: Thailand quells talk of name change
By DAVID RISING and CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — No, English speakers and others using the Roman alphabet aren’t…
Continue ReadingHow American cash for Canada protests could sway US politics
By RICHARD LARDNER, MICHELLE R. SMITH and ALI SWENSON The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Canadians who have disrupted trade with the U.S.…
Continue ReadingFrance and EU to withdraw troops from Mali, remain in region
By SYLVIE CORBET and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has announced it will no longer have troops in Mali by the summer amid…
Continue ReadingZimbabwe grapples with substance abuse problems in pandemic
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Zimbabwe, the COVID-19 pandemic has driven up mental health problems caused by…
Continue ReadingAlbania court overturns president’s impeachment
By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Constitutional Court has overturned parliament’s impeachment of President…
Continue ReadingFar-right French candidate makes taboo term his mantra
By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Two words considered taboo for many in France because they evoke a conspiracy theory embraced by…
Continue ReadingHong Kong hospitals hit 90% capacity as COVID-19 cases surge
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s hospitals have reached 90% capacity and quarantine facilities are at their limit as the city struggles to snuff…
Continue ReadingSyria reports Israeli strikes near Damascus, no casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says Israel has fired several surface-to-surface missiles toward military positions south of Damascus,…
Continue ReadingBeijing’s ‘invisible’ Olympics: Muted but watched online
By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer The Winter Olympics are being held in Beijing, but most of the population is shut out because of coronavirus…
Continue ReadingCrisis looms in Syria camps, jails holding foreign nationals
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press ROJ CAMP, Syria (AP) — A deadly prison attack last month sharpened the focus on the tens of thousands of foreign…
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