By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's next national elections will be held on Feb. 12, the chief election commissioner said Thursday, setting the timetable for a vote to be held 18 months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in an uprising ...

By JUSTIN KABUMBA and MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — More than 400 civilians have been killed since the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group escalated its offensive in the South Kivu province in eastern Congo, regional officials said, adding that Rwandan special forces were ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, BASSEM MROUE, and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rains drenched Gaza's tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two ...

By DAVID KEYTON and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months Thursday after a daring escape from her homeland when she emerged from a hotel balcony in Norway's capital and ...

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he and European leaders discussed proposals to end the war in Ukraine in "pretty strong terms" Wednesday, adding that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "has to be realistic" about his ...

By SAM McNEIL and RENATA BRITO Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — As sympathy for immigrants erodes around the world, European nations agreed Wednesday to consider changes that rights advocates say would weaken migrant protections that have underpinned European law since World War II. The ...

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a bill Wednesday aimed at reducing the time that former President Jair Bolsonaro spends behind bars following his sentence of more than 27 years for attempting a coup. But his successor has ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that is planned to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. Leaders in the nation's soccer federations ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian court on Wednesday rejected Lebanon's request to extradite the owner of a ship linked to a cargo of ammonium nitrate at the center of the massive 2020 port explosion in Beirut. Igor Grechushkin, 48, who holds Russian and Cypriot citizenship, was arrested in ...

By CHAN HO-HIM AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged China to fix its economic imbalances, saying the country of 1.4 billion people is too big to rely on exports for its growth. China's global exports have been rising while shipments to ...

LONDON (AP) — Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has been awarded the Turner Prize for work that includes vivid abstract drawings and hanging sculptures, the first artist with a learning disability to win Britain's most famous visual art award. Kalu, 59, who has autism, received the 25,000-pound ...

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be ...

PARIS (AP) — Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday for strikes to protest their work conditions, a ticket-price hike for non-European visitors and security weaknesses that a brazen daylight theft of France's Crown Jewels highlighted in October. In a letter announcing the strike action ...

By MEGAN JANETSKY and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police forcibly entered the compound of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem early Monday, escalating a campaign against an organization that has been banned from operating on ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s humanitarian aid coordination office is downsizing its appeal for annual funding in 2026 after support this year, mostly from Western governments, plunged to the lowest level in a decade. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said ...

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Hamas is ready to discuss "freezing or storing" its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel, a senior official said Sunday, offering a possible formula to resolve one of the thorniest issues in the ...

By VIRGILE AHISSOU and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Benin President Patrice Talon on Sunday condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the country's army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the administrative capital, ...

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil rallied against gender-based violence Sunday as a record number of female victims and a series of recent high-profile cases have shocked the country. Women of all ages and some ...

LONDON (AP) — Police arrested a man at London's Heathrow Airport on Sunday after a crowd of people were hit with pepper spray during a robbery at a parking garage that caused several hours of travel disruptions. Five people were taken by ambulance to a hospital and another 16, including a ...

By MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press DAKAR. Senegal (AP) — Dozens of people who have fled Mali tell The Associated Press that a new Russian military unit that replaced the Wagner mercenary group this year is carrying out abuses, including rapes and beheadings, as it teams up with Mali's ...