By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan have resumed the forced deportations of Afghan refugees after the federal government declined to extend a key deadline for their stay, officials said Monday. The decision affects approximately 1.4 million ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Thai and Cambodian officials met in Malaysia on Monday for the first round of cross-border committee talks since a tense ceasefire was brokered last week after five days of deadly armed border clashes that killed dozens and displaced over 260,000 people. The ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A trial began Monday under tight security for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year's shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded over 600 in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. A faction of the Islamic State group ...

By MOHAMED WAGDY AND FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians on Monday began voting for candidates to the nation's Senate, a largely advisory body that helps a powerful lower body to review and pass laws. There were some 63 million people eligible to vote at over 8,000 ...

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Chinese citizen was charged Monday under Australia's recent foreign interference laws with covertly collecting information about an Australian Buddhist association, police said. The woman, an Australian permanent resident based ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran founded a new defense council after attacks in June by Israel and the U.S., Iranian state media reported Monday. Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the country's highest security body, made the decision to establish the Supreme National Defense Council, which ...

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A new political party formed by the students who spearheaded an anti-government movement ousting former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday rallied in Bangladesh's capital and pledged to build a new Bangladesh amid political ...

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. fashion retailer American Eagle Outfitters wanted to make a splash with its new advertising campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney. The ad blitz included "clever, even provocative language" and was "definitely going to ...

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For all of Elizabeth McGovern's acting career, someone else wrote her lines. Now it's her turn. The "Downton Abbey" star pivots from British aristocracy to classic Hollywood royalty this summer to portray screen legend Ava Gardner in ...

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — No matter the time on Martha's Vineyard, a shimmering glow will be powered by the star presence of Black filmmakers, actors and tastemakers like Issa Rae, Mara Brock Akil and Michelle Obama who are shaping culture on their ...

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down Thursday, following investigations into his business dealings that prompted protests calling for his resignation. Paluckas, a newly established leader of the center-left ...

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's Parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill presented by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that restores the independence of two of the country's key anti-corruption watchdogs, reversing his contentious move last week ...

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military government has announced it is ending the state of emergency it declared after seizing power 4 1/2 years ago. The government also will restructure its administrative bodies to prepare for a new election at the end of the year. ...

By ERIKA KINETZ and ELSIE CHEN Associated Press ROME (AP) — Stealth submarines fitted with space-shooting lasers, supply-chain sabotage and custom-built attack satellites armed with ion thrusters. Those are just some of the strategies Chinese scientists have been developing to counter what ...

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first Australian -made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil crashed after 14 seconds of flight on Wednesday. The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, was the first ...

By PAOLA FLORES, CARLOS VALDEZ and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — It's no surprise that Samuel Doria Medina is running for president of Bolivia: The 66-year-old multimillionaire ran as a center-right candidate in the elections of 2005, 2009 and 2014. He failed each ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Canada and Malta announced Wednesday they will recognize the state of Palestine in September, joining France and the United Kingdom in stepping up pressure to end the nearly 80-year Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Canadian Prime ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has announced that it will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, stops building settlements in the West Bank and commits to a two-state solution. The U.K. followed France, which ...

By OPE ADETAYO Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The decision of Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara to run for a fourth term risks a return to a past era of "old guard dictator rule" in a region where democracy is increasingly being challenged, an analyst warned on ...

LONDON (AP) — The co-founder of a U.K.-based Palestinian rights organization that has been outlawed by the British government won a legal bid Wednesday to challenge the decision to label the group a terrorist organization. A High Court judge ruled that the government's decision on Palestine ...