government and politics

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has refused to include a novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man in the country's high school c...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Oneida Indians are asking a state court to throw out a license recently granted to a rival casino being built in upstate New Y...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The scene had echoes of the Paris attacks: A bustling shopping area shaken by the blasts of suicide bombers and gunfire as o...

BERLIN (AP) — A bus carrying 31 Syrian refugees arrived from southern Germany in Berlin on Thursday night as a district councilor in Bavaria followed ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the second time this week on Thursday entered three besieged communities in Syria as part of an eff...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A picturesque Colorado river with a peculiar French name is the latest prize in the West's water wars, where wilderness adv...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's first parliament in three years is off to a rocky start, with flamboyant displays of support for the president and general rowdin...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police have arrested one person suspected of a direct link to the deadly suicide bombing that killed 10 Germans in Istanbul's ...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged three men and one woman with forming a far-right terror group and planning a bombing on a refugee shelte...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — All 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran after their two small boats allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters around one...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday escalated its standoff with Poland over the rule of law under the new government, deciding to open a c...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Actor Sean Penn said he has "nothin' to hide," after images published Monday indicated he was under surveillance when he met with t...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An appeals court ruling is threatening to derail Mexico's effort to prosecute suspects in one of its most notorious crimes of recen...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of junior doctors walked off the job Tuesday in England in a bitter dispute over pay and working conditions — the first such s...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior Afghan official on Tuesday warned the Taliban against staying out of the peace process with the government in Kabul...

LONDON (AP) — Tributes have poured in for singer David Bowie, who died Sunday aged 69. Politicians, entertainers, actors and astronauts have expressed...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Four countries __ Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States __ were cloistered away late into the night Monday trying to lay...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Aid convoys delivered long-awaited food, medicine and other supplies to three besieged communities Monday, part of a U.N.-suppo...

LONDON (AP) — The latest on the death of singer David Bowie. All times local. 8:35 p.m. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has eulogized David...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved forward on legislation that would make it easier to obtain government records, as a new congressional report conclud...