LUCKNOW, India – A senior cleric at an influential Islamic seminary in northern India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should not watch men playing soccer. Mufti Athar Kasmi said over the weekend that watching men "playing…
JERUSALEM – Israel says it is reopening its embassy in Jordan after the two countries put a monthslong diplomatic spat behind them. Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said on Tuesday that there will be a "gradual reopening" of the embassy…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Hamas says one of its senior officials has died, three weeks after accidentally shooting himself while cleaning his weapon in Gaza. Spokesman Hazem Qassem said on Tuesday that Imad al-Alami had been unconscious since the…
SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials say the country's prime minister is preparing to flee after separatists seized the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden in fierce battles overnight. The officials say fighters loyal to the so-called…
ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani official says a French climber who was rescued from a Himalayan peak amid bad weather has returned home. A senior official in the Pakistan Alpine Federation Karrar Haidri says Elisabeth Revol left Islamabad before dawn Tuesday.…
LEGAZPI, Philippines – A significant amount of ash has fallen on towns near the Philippines' most active volcano after energetic eruptions of lava from the crater. Mount Mayon in northeastern Albay province has been erupting more than two weeks, and…
Almost two dozen Americans who traveled to Cuba have reported experiencing similar symptoms to those suffered by U.S. diplomats serving at the American Embassy in Havana. (REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini) Almost two dozen Americans who traveled to Cuba have reported experiencing similar…
Olympics 2018: South Korea begins safety preparations South Korea's Olympic team, honored on Wednesday with a special inauguration ceremony, marking the official start of Olympic activities for the PyeongChang games. Officials are promising a flawless winter Olympics, which will see…
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says progress can be made to resolve a 25-year-old dispute between Greece and Macedonia over the latter nation's name if there is "the right spirit of compromise by the leadership and by the peoples…
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Sudan's president, who is accused of genocide by the International Criminal Court, on the sidelines of the African Union summit on grounds of "operational necessity." U.N. deputy spokesman…
LONDON – A forecast prepared for the British government reportedly says the economy will be worse off after the country leaves the European Union whatever trade deal is struck with the bloc. The leaked assessment published Monday by news website…
LONDON – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says the country will vote in late May on whether to lift a constitutional ban on most abortions. The government met Monday evening to agree on details of a referendum on the eighth…
DAKAR, Senegal – An agency that monitors jihadi websites says al-Qaida's Mali branch has released a video of a Colombian missionary who has been held captive for nearly one year. SITE Intelligence Group said the video released Monday by the…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico officials are denying claims they plan to eliminate a regulatory agency that oversees the island's power company amid plans to privatize the utility, which they have warned will run out of funds by…
MOSCOW – Several associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to 10 to 30 days in custody for staging an unsanctioned rally in Moscow. The verdicts came a day after about 1,000 Navalny supporters marched across the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday in Moscow to discuss remnants of the Holocaust and the future of Syria. (Israeli Prime Minister Office) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin met…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is suspending talks with the country's last remaining rebel group after a series of bombings over the weekend killed seven police officers The next round of the year-old talks between the government…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's president says there was no institutionalized participation by Poland or its people in the Holocaust, but acknowledges that individual Poles took "wicked" actions against Jewish neighbors. President Andrzej Duda said Monday that he would never allow…
PARIS – The husband of a slain jogger has been detained by French police three months after the killing in eastern France prompted marches and a wave of emotion across the country. Randall Schwerdorffer, a lawyer for Jonathann Daval, said…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Social media postings show at least five women in Iran protesting the obligatory Muslim headscarf by taking theirs off and waving them on sticks. The videos and photos show individual women in separate locations in…
A Russian fighter jet buzzed a U.S. Navy spy plane in the Black Sea on Monday, the first incident of its kind since a November incident. The Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane was flying in international airspace at the time, according…
Olympics 2018: South Korea begins safety preparations South Korea's Olympic team, honored on Wednesday with a special inauguration ceremony, marking the official start of Olympic activities for the PyeongChang games. Officials are promising a flawless winter Olympics, which will see…
Isaiah Haastrup with his aunt Dahlia Thomas at King's College Hospital in London. A judge ruled that the 11-month-boy could be taken off life support despite the parents' objection. (Irwin Mitchell/Family Handout) An 11-month-old suffering from severe brain damage may…
BERLIN – Austrian police say that more than 100 skiers who are stuck on a broken chairlift in central Austria are being rescued with helicopters. Styria provincial police tweeted Monday that the lift stopped working because of technical problems and…