THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Less than four months before the general election, a rising force in Dutch populism is in turmoil and looks to be careering toward an acrimonious breakup amid accusations of extreme right and anti-Semitic sympathies among some members of its youth wing.
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijani officials have criticized a resolution adopted by the French Senate that urges the French government to recognize the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s president, according to provisional results announced by the National Independent Electoral Commission on Thursday.
CAIRO (AP) — Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and leader of the country's largest political party, died of COVID-19 Thursday in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates, his party said. He was 84.
MONZA, Italy (AP) — This Italian city north of Milan is best known for its Formula 1 racetrack. But in 2020, ambulances have been doing most of the racing in Monza.
BERLIN (AP) — A former regional official with the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been charged on allegations he was involved in smuggling 36 kilograms (almost 80 pounds) of cocaine into a northern port, authorities said Thursday.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's government spokesman on Thursday announced a weeklong extension to the country's current lockdown, due to the continued spread of the coronavirus, particularly in the north of the country.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has fined two pharmaceutical companies for colluding to keep a cheap alternative to a sleep disorder medicine off the market for their profit and at the expense of patients.
Un hombre hace ejercicio frente a otros sentados, todos con mascarillas para prevenir contagios de coronavirus, en un parque en Beijing, el lunes 23 de noviembre de 2020.
Un soldado hace guardia a la entrada de un tribunal donde se juzga a 475 acusados, incluyendo generales y pilotos de aviones de combate, por un fallido golpe de Estado en 2016, en Sincan, Ankara, Turquía, el 26 de noviembre de 2020.
TOKYO (AP) — Global stock markets were subdued on Thursday after significant gains in recent days and as U.S. trading remained closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
GENEVA (AP) — As the coronavirus leaves many people housebound and many Americans sit to feast for Thanksgiving, the World Health Organization says people need to get more active, insisting that up to 5 million deaths worldwide could be avoided each year if people would run, walk and simply …
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says people need to get more active, warning that up to 5 million deaths worldwide could be avoided each year if people were. That's despite the coronavirus pandemic.
PARIS (AP) — French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered several Paris police officers suspended after the publication of videos showing them beating up a Black man and using tear gas against him with no apparent reason.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court sentenced hundreds of military and civilian personnel at an air base to life prison sentences Thursday, proclaiming them guilty of involvement in the 2016 failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand said Thursday it transferred three Iranians involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot back to Tehran, as Iran released an Australian academic who was imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Rebels in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed two soldiers in an attack Thursday in the disputed region’s main city, the Indian army said.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday the army has been ordered to move on the embattled Tigray regional capital after his 72-hour ultimatum ended for Tigray leaders to surrender, and he warned the city's half-million residents to stay indoors and disarm.
En esta imagen difundida por la Universidad de Oxford el lunes 23 de noviembre de 2020, una investigadora en un laboratorio del Instituto Jenner en Oxford, Inglaterra, trabaja en la vacuna contra el coronavirus que desarrollan AstraZeneca y la Universidad de Oxford.
BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says it is signing a 86 million-euro ($102 million) contract with a Swiss start-up company to bring a large piece of orbital trash back to Earth.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Vaccinations against COVID-19 in Africa might not start until the second quarter of next year, the continent's top public health official said Thursday, adding that it will be “extremely dangerous” if more developed parts of the world vaccinate themselves and then restr…
En esta imagen de archivo, tomada el 5 de agosto de 2020, vista de tumbas recién ocupadas en el cementerio Olifantsveil, a las afueras de Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica.
Policías están apostados en el límite entre Harayana y Nueva Delhi para impedir una marcha de agricultores en la capital de la India, jueves 26 de noviembre de 2020. Los agricultores protestan contra una serie de leyes nuevas.
LONDON (AP) — Most people in England will continue to face tight restrictions on socializing and business after a nationwide lockdown ends next week, with pubs and restaurants ordered to remain shut across much of the country’s densely populated Midlands and north.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has recorded more than 500 new coronavirus cases for the first time in about eight months.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's Parliament approved the government's proposed 2021 budget on Thursday, throwing a political lifeline to embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin amid strong resistance to his 9-month-old leadership.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The four European Union countries hardest hit by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of unauthorized migrants over the past five years said Thursday they fear that new proposals to revamp the EU’s asylum system will continue to leave them shouldering most of the burden.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Some of the thousands of mink culled to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans have risen from their shallow graves in western Denmark after gases built up inside the bodies, Danish authorities said Thursday.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of Indian farmers clashed with police in northern Haryana state on Thursday during a protest demanding that the government abolish new farming laws that they fear will reduce their earnings and give more power to corporations.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Diplomats like to remain neutral but Nanaia Mahuta let the veil slip a little when a winner was declared in the U.S. election by tweeting a smiley-face emoji.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The operator of online chat rooms in South Korea was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison on charges of blackmailing dozens of women, including minors, into filming sexually explicit videos and selling them to others.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Parts of India’s southern coast were flooded Thursday after a cyclone slammed into its shores, triggering heavy rains, uprooting trees and cutting power lines.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — No country has been involved in Somalia’s future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call the worst possible time.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to remain patient with restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus, saying Thursday that with promising vaccines on the way, “there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
Theary Seng, center, a Cambodian-American lawyer gestures as she enters the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. A Cambodian court on Thursday began hearing the cases of nearly 130 opponents and government critics charged with treason for taking part …
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court on Thursday began hearing the cases of nearly 130 government critics and opponents charged with treason for taking part in nonviolent political activities over the past three years, in what one of them called a sham trial.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Three international human rights groups on Thursday denounced recent attacks on Pakistan's minority Ahmadi community and asked Islamabad to “urgently and impartially investigate a surge" in violence.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — China’s top diplomat on Thursday stressed the importance of bilateral relations while meeting senior officials in South Korea, where there’s growing concern the country is becoming squeezed between its biggest trading partner and military ally the United States.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian prime minister says the army has been ordered to move on the Tigray capital, tells residents to 'stay indoors.'
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The UN says shortages are now 'very critical' in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, and 1 million people are displaced.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Six members of the Pakistan cricket squad in New Zealand have tested positive for COVID-19 and have been moved from managed isolation into quarantine.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand says it approved transfer of 3 Iranians convicted of 2012 bombing back to Tehran as Australian woman is freed.
Chief selector of Pakistan Cricket Misbah-ul-Haq arrives for a press conference to announce the team members for next month's series against New Zealand, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. Pakistan dropped test specialist Asad Shafiq on Wednesday for next month's two-test series …
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission formally named the country's fisheries minister as a suspect in taking bribes related to exports of lobster larvae, and alleged he used the money on a luxury shopping spree during a visit to the United States.
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina's stunned soccer fans sought each other out Wednesday to mourn the death of Diego Maradona, gathering by the hundreds in spots linked to the life of the legendary player.
En esta imagen del 6 de noviembre de 2013, el doctor José Manuel Mireles, líder de un grupo de autodefensas comunitarias, reflexiona durante una entrevista con The Associated Press en su rancho de la localidad de Tepalcatepec, en el estado de Michoacán, México.
En esta foto de archivo del 10 de junio de 1987, la leyenda del fútbol brasileño Pelé, en el centro, toma de la mano al capitán italiano Alessandro Altobelli, a la izquierda, y al capitán argentino Diego Maradona, luego de recibir la medalla de honor de la FIFA antes del inicio de un partido…
ARCHIVO - En esta foto de marzo de 1987, Pelé (izquierda) y Diego Maradona posan con sus trofeos durante una gala de premios en Italia. Maradona ha fallecido de un paro cardíaco, el miércoles 25 de noviembre de 2020, en Buenos Aires. Tenía 60 años.
En esta foto de archivo del 27 de junio de 2010, Diego Maradona, como técnico de Argentina, hace gestos durante el partido contra México por los octavos de final de la Copa del Mundo de Sudáfrica, en el Soccer City en Johannesburgo. Maradona ha fallecido de un paro cardíaco, el miércoles 25 …
ARCHIVO - En esta foto del 29 de junio de 1986, Diego Maradona alza la Copa Mundial tras la victoria de Argentina 3-2 ante Alemania en la final, en el estadio Azteca de la Ciudad de México. Maradona ha fallecido de un paro cardiaco, el miércoles 25 de noviembre de 2020, en Buenos Aires. Tení…
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