Protesters block Malta’s leader from leaving Parliament
VALLETTA, Malta — Some 4,000 angry protesters in Malta who want the prime minister to immediately step down briefly blocked him and his party’s lawmak...
Impeachment shadows Trump on trip to NATO leaders meeting
LONDON — Crying foul over timing, President Donald Trump on Monday accused Democrats of scheduling this week’s impeachment hearing to undercut him dur...
Vigil for London stabbing victims as politicians trade blame
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn paused Monday to honor the two people killed in th...
The Latest: UN chief disappointed by climate action so far
MADRID — The Latest on the COP25 climate summit in Madrid (all times local):
Defense budgets set to dominate yet another NATO summit
BRUSSELS — Despite pleas to set aside bickering over military spending so the issue doesn’t dominate a third NATO summit in a row, the United States i...
NATO under friendly fire as leaders ready for London summit
BRUSSELS — NATO leaders will gather in London on Tuesday as the world’s biggest military alliance, marking its 70th birthday, battles with one of the ...
Correction: Burkina Faso-Church Attacked story
In a story Dec. 2 about an attack in Burkina Faso, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an attack on a convoy carrying employees of a mining...
UN chief urges countries not to surrender on climate fight
MADRID — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to give up in the fight against climate change, as representatives from ne...
Germany: Merkel’s party rejects full overhaul of coalition
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is rejecting a root-and-branch renegotiation of the agreement underpinning Germany’s government after the ju...
France pays homage to 13 soldiers killed in Mali air crash
PARIS — In its biggest military funeral in decades, France is honoring 13 soldiers killed when their helicopters collided over Mali while on a mission...
Philippine capital warned as strong typhoon approaches
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ main island, including the national capital, Manila, is under a tropical cyclone warning for a typhoon forecast...
In death and life, Lebanese woman shows religious law fight
BEIRUT — Nadyn Jouny’s sister taped up two messages in her memory inside a closet at the family home — one of motherly love tinged with pain, another ...
China to suspend US Navy visits to Hong Kong over new law
HONG KONG — China said Monday it will suspend U.S. Navy visits to Hong Kong and sanction a range of pro-democracy non-governmental organizations in re...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Ukraine defense at odds with facts
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s defense of his actions with Ukraine collides with the known facts and the testimony of witnesses on multiple fro...
50 children killed by measles in Samoa as outbreak worsens
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A measles outbreak in Samoa has killed 50 children as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population.
Death toll put at 20 for Mexico cartel attack near US border
MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas bo...
Hundreds rally in Myanmar to show support for Suu Kyi
YANGON, Myanmar — About 700 people rallied Sunday to show support for Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as she prepares to defend the country agains...
Malta leader to resign amid protests over reporter’s death
VALLETTA, Malta — Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the nation Sunday night that he would resign in January, following pressure from angry cit...
With prime minister out, Iraq in constitutional ‘black hole’
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament on Sunday formally accepted the prime minister’s resignation, but the path to replacing Adil Abdul-Mahdi was clouded with ...
24 killed in Tunisia when bus plummets off hill
TUNIS, Tunisia — A bus plummeted off a hill in Tunisia on Sunday morning, killing 24 passengers who were on an excursion in the country’s north, gover...
London extremist attack takes center stage in UK campaign
LONDON — Britain’s political leaders sparred Sunday over who is responsible for the early release of a convicted extremist who launched a stabbing att...
London attack victims took part in program with prisoners
LONDON — Three of the five people who were killed or wounded in the London stabbing attack were former Cambridge University students or staff members ...
Pope says Nativity scenes should go in town squares, schools
GRECCIO, Italy — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed Nativity scenes as “simple and admirable” signs of Christian faith and encouraged their placement in wo...
New EU leaders take office vowing to tackle climate change
BRUSSELS — A new team of leaders took office at the helm of the European Union on Sunday, pledging to put the fight against climate change at the top ...
Conductor Mariss Jansons dies at 76; led top orchestras
FRANKFURT, Germany — Latvian-born conductor Mariss Jansons, who led top classical ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Royal ...
Hong Kong pro-democracy rally cut short by police tear gas
HONG KONG — Thousands took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators h...
Warming toll: 1 degree hotter, trillions of tons of ice gone
Since leaders first started talking about tackling the problem of climate change, the world has spewed more heat-trapping gases, gotten hotter and suf...
Albania calls for international help to recover from quake
TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s prime minister is calling on the international community for financial aid and expert assistance to help the country recov...
Century ago and today, Baghdad street a front line in revolt
BAGHDAD — When discontented Iraqis sought independence from British occupation in 1920, Baghdad’s most prestigious new boulevard, Rasheed Street, was ...
Maltese prosecutors charge businessman in reporter’s killing
VALLETTA, Malta — Maltese prosecutors on Saturday charged a prominent local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of anti-corruption journa...