Russian court convicts a woman for protesting the war in Ukraine in latest crackdown on free speech
A Russian court has convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and sentenced her to seven years in prison
2023-11-16 20:48
Catastrophic flood drives Greek village of Metamorfosi to seek relocation
By Karolina Tagaris METAMORFOSI, Greece When floodwaters gushed through the Greek farming village of Metamorfosi in September, residents
2023-11-16 20:17
AP Election Brief | What to expect in Louisiana's general election
Louisiana voters will return to the polls to decide runoff elections in which no candidate received a majority of the vote in the October primary
2023-11-16 20:00
UK becomes 1st country to approve gene therapy treatment for sickle cell, thalassemia
Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020
2023-11-16 19:16
EU commission to prolong use of glyphosate for 10 more years after member countries fail to agree
The European Commission will continue the use of the controversial chemical herbicide glyphosate in the European Union for 10 more years after the 27 member countries again failed to find a common position
2023-11-16 18:27
Xi-Biden meeting seen as putting relations back on course, even as issues remain unresolved
Perhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes
2023-11-16 17:55
Live updates | Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza receive notices to evacuate
Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza say they received evacuation notices
2023-11-16 17:25
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron meets Zelenskyy in first overseas visit as top UK diplomat
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his first overseas trip in his new job and pledged to continue providing military support for Ukraine’s war effort for“however long it takes.”
2023-11-16 17:22
Refugees who fled to India after latest fighting in Myanmar have begun returning home, officials say
Officials say more than half of the estimated 5,000 refugees who had fled the heavy fighting in Myanmar’s western Chin state and had entered northeastern India have begun returning home
2023-11-16 17:18
Indian rescuers prepare to drill to reach 40 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel since the weekend
Rescuers in northern India are supplying food and medicine to 40 construction workers as officials prepare to start drilling through the rubble to reach the men who have been buried since a portion of the tunnel they were working on collapsed over the weekend
2023-11-16 17:15
Thousands of Starbucks workers are expected to go on a one-day strike
Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks stores plan to walk off the job Thursday
2023-11-16 16:19
Their families wiped out, grieving Palestinians in Gaza ask why
Entire generations of Palestinian families in the besieged Gaza Strip have been killed in airstrikes in the ongoing Hamas-Israel war
2023-11-16 15:25