social affairs

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...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials raided two prominent cultural venues — a popular art gallery and a publishing house — questioning workers about their ...

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...

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...

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

PARIS (AP) — A leading Jewish authority in the French city Marseille has asked fellow Jews to refrain from wearing their traditional skull cap to stay...

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...

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

LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Monday he hoped this week's meeting of world Anglican leaders could avoid a split over homose...

MUNICH (AP) — An annotated edition of "Mein Kampf," the first version of Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end o...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union on Thursday complained that Turkey wasn't doing enough to significantly decrease the number of people making the d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign jumped at a chance Friday to portray rival Sen. Bernie Sanders as being at odds with Preside...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department produced "inaccurate and incomplete" responses to public records requests while Democratic presidential hopeful...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials...

PHOENIX (AP) — A trial that begins this month in Phoenix is expected to reveal the inner workings of two secluded towns on the Arizona-Utah line that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An impressive quartet of Tony Award-winners — Judy Kaye, Cady Huffman, Annaleigh Ashford and Randy Graff — will lend their voices to t...

MOSCOW (AP) — For much of the Orthodox Christian world, Thursday is celebrated as Christmas Day. Believers in Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Eu...

LONDON (AP) — It's not ideal timing. Just as the eurozone economy finally appears to be picking up speed, its future is clouded by concerns over China...