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Bolivia's general commander of the Army, Juan José Zúñiga, sits inside an armored vehicle parked on Plaza Murillo, outside government palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of the government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
The Latest | Bolivian official denies arrested general's claims that president asked for uprising
Bolivia’s justice minister has denied an army general’s claims of being asked by the president to storm the government palace. Iván Lima says Juan José Zúñiga was lying and trying to justify … more
A supporter of Saeed Jalili, a candidate for the June 28, presidential election, holds up his poster during a campaign gathering in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Jalili, a hardline candidate and former nuclear negotiator, said in a debate on Monday: "We should make the enemy regretful from sanctioning Iran through economic means." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
First candidate drops out of Iran presidential election, due to take place Friday amid voter apathy
A candidate in Iran’s presidential election has withdrawn from the race, becoming the first to back out in order for hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate in the vote to replace the late … more
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Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup, insisted he stands firm and urged people to mobilize.
Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt fails, general taken into custody
Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup and urged people to mobilize. He called for … more
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A cable car lays on the ground after it fell in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. At least one person was killed and 12 others were injured when the cable car collapsed while approaching a station, local authorities said. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)
Cable car collapse in Colombia leaves at least 1 dead and 12 injured, officials say
Officials in Colombia say at least one person has been killed and 12 injured when a cable car in the city of Medellin failed and plunged onto a sidewalk next to a station platform. It was not … more
FILE - Police officers set up cordon line as a car crashed into a primary school building in Wimbledon, London, Thursday, July 6, 2023. British police say the driver of a 4x4 who suffered a seizure and plowed into a school in London, killing 2 children, will face no criminal charges. London’s Metropolitan Police say in statement Wednesday, June 26, 2024 that they had been advised by the Crown Prosecution Service that no charges would be filed in the incident at The Study Prep School in Wimbledon. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
No charges for London driver who had seizure and plowed into a school, killing 2 children
British police say the driver of an SUV who suffered a seizure and plowed into a school in London, killing 2 children, will face no criminal charges because the incident couldn't have been predicted. … more
Journalists set up their camera to cover WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who was brought to court to enter a plea deal, in Saipan, Mariana Islands, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss
Saipan is a relaxed, rural island in the Northern Marianas. With a population of about 43,000, it's fueled by east Asian tourism and steeped in WWII military history. As Julian Assange and the … more
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Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaks during an interview in Clacton-On-Sea, England, Friday, June 21, 2024. Britain votes in a national election next week at a time of high public dissatisfaction over a host of issues. Many Conservative voters are turning away from the governing party, and some are switching to anti-immigration Reform. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Fed up with the UK Conservatives, some voters turn to the anti-immigration Reform party for answers
In the English coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea, many Conservative voters are considering switching to the anti-immigration Reform UK party in next week’s national election. They are fed up with the … more
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FILE - Cows graze in a field in Luncavita, Romania, on May 21, 2019. Denmark will impose cattle farmers with a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, claiming it will be the first country to do so, in a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from each of their cows. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Flatulent cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country in the world to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, … more
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets. The deal with the Justice Department concludes a drawn-out legal saga.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets. Assange raised his right … more
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FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, greets Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. NATO on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world's biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
NATO appoints outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general
NATO has appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization at a critical time for European … more
An anti-government protester waves a Kenyan flag as police fire tear gas at them during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Kenyan police fire blanks to disperse protesters hours after parliament breached
Authorities fired blanks to disperse protesters in Nairobi suburb overnight Wednesday, hours after protestors stormed parliament in deadly demonstrations, burning parts of the building while … more
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An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown
Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The … more
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Mujahid Abadi, 24, poses for a portrait at the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds and burns in the West Bank city of Jenin, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. When the Palestinian man stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle's neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. That was only the start of his ordeal. Hours later, beaten and bloodied, he found himself strapped to the searing hood of an Israeli military jeep driving down a road. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
A Palestinian was shot, beaten and tied to an Israeli army jeep. The army says he posed no threat
When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot, and that was only the start of his ordeal. Hours later, beaten and … more
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FILE - Israeli police officers remove an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man from the street during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem on June 2, 2024. Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 25, ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for military service, a decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
Israel's courts say the military must enlist the ultra-Orthodox. What could that mean for Netanyahu?
The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafted ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army. The landmark ruling on Tuesday seeks to end a system that has allowed them to avoid … more
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Police officers are investigating the site of a crash between the white Toyota of eight-time world rally champion Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais, left, and a local resident's Ford, right, that collided head-on on a local road near the village of Wlosty, near Goldap in northeastern Poland, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, while the Ogier and Landais were on a reconnaissance run ahead of this week's Rally Poland. Ogier and the Ford's driver were airlifted to hospital while Landais and the Ford's female passenger were taken by ambulances. (Police Office in Goldap via AP Photo)
Rally great Ogier to remain hospitalized though 'no serious injuries' from crash in Poland
Eight-time world rally champion Sébastien Ogier will remain hospitalized overnight after he was involved in a crash in Poland while preparing for this week’s race, though his team said he was not … more
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FILE - Supreme Court justices preside over a trial in Brasilia, Brazil, June 30, 2023. Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, moved toward decriminalizing possession of marijuana for personal use. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
Brazil’s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, making the nation one of Latin America’s last to do so, in a move that … more
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The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police officers has arrived in Haiti nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A couple hundred officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. It wasn’t immediately known what the Kenyans’ first assignment would be. (AP video by Pierre Luxama)
UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenya-led force prepares to face gangs
The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police officers has arrived in Haiti nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A … more
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FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pauses as he makes a statement to media gathered outside the High Court in London, on Dec. 5, 2011. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga over the publication of a trove of classified documents. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
Who is Julian Assange, the polarizing founder of the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks?
Before he emerged as an eccentric internet publisher of state secrets, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was born in Townsville, Australia. He experienced an itinerant childhood and attended dozens of … more
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In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gestures in a ceremony to mark the Shiite holiday of Eid al-Ghadir, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Khamenei called Tuesday for "maximum" voter turnout in this week's presidential election to "overcome the enemy," denouncing politicians who he described as believing that everything good comes from the United States. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
Iran's supreme leader calls for 'maximum' turnout for presidential election as voter apathy high
Iran’s supreme leader is calling for “maximum” voter turnout in Friday’s presidential election to “overcome the enemy.” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments in a speech Tuesday … more
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A plane believed to be carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents. Assange left a British prison on Monday and will appear later this week in the U.S. federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific. He's expected to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, the Justice Department said in a letter filed in court.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stops in Bangkok on his way to a US court and later freedom
A plane carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has landed in Thailand. He is on his way to enter a plea in a U.S. court that is expected to free him and resolve the legal case over the site's … more
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