DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence for her activity on Twitter in Saudi Arabia drastically reduced, a rights group said Monday
Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two, had been sentenced to 34 ...
By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his resignation on Monday following mounting pressure from populist opposition groups, two months after a top court annulled a presidential election in the ...
By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's tit-for-tat duties on U.S. imports took effect Monday, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he wants to slap new duties on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S.
The rapid-fire shots of tariffs ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador will choose its next president in a runoff election after conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González garnered enough votes Sunday to beat 14 other candidates.
The contest, set for April ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A performer at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag emblazoned with the words Sudan and Gaza in a protest over the two wars that are roiling the Middle East.
Security at the stadium detained the ...
By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
MUGHRAQA, Gaza Strip (AP) — New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages renewed pressure Sunday on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase, even as U.S. President ...