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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, a mahram. The Taliban have banned women from education, most jobs and public spaces like parks since seizing control of Afghanistan in 2021. In its latest
Continue ReadingBy BISWAJEET BANERJEE, SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press AYODHYA, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya, in a political triumph for the populist leader who is seeking to transform the country
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Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in Ukraine’s capital Monday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on how Poland can keep supporting the country’s almost two-year war with Russia and resolve a dispute between the neighboring nations over grain shipments and trucking. Tusk, who returned to
Continue ReadingBY JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities say a truck driving at high speed ran out of control and plunged into a ravine in a southwestern region of the country, killing 18 passengers and injuring more than a score of others. A police officer said the truck was “filled with goods
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — French gambling giant La Française des Jeux (FDJ) has offered to acquire online betting firm Kindred for 27.95 billion Swedish kronor (about $2.67 billion). Both parties confirmed the widely anticipated news on Monday, with FDJ saying it hoped to “create a European gaming champion” and become the
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — It just wasn’t to be for the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. With a spot in the AFC Championship game on the line, Buffalo was trailing by three points against their old foes, the Kansas City Chiefs. With time ticking away, Bills quarterback Josh Allen masterminded a 16-play, 54-yard
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to extend its term by a year through late-May 2025. Investigators had been calling for more time to examine a broad range of human rights violations linked to
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is taking center stage in the Democrats’ renewed push for abortion rights during this year’s election and she will mark the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling on Monday in Wisconsin. It will be the first in a
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese automaker that cheated on safety tests for decades said Monday it doesn’t expect to resume shipping cars any time soon. The Japanese government ordered a subsidiary of Toyota to halt production of its entire lineup after reports of faked safety test results emerged last year.
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say four people have been rescued and two died following the crash of a private Russian jet carrying six over the weekend in Afghanistan. The crash on Saturday took place in a mountainous area in Badakhshan province that is home to only several thousand people.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers has called another strike to press its demands for better pay and working hours in a bitter dispute with the country’s state-owned main railway operator. The GDL union says the six-day strike will affect passenger services operated by state-owned Deutsche Bahn from Wednesday until
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden campaign will hit the airwaves in battleground states with its first abortion-focused ad of the year, featuring stark, emotional testimony from a woman personally affected by a state abortion ban who lays the blame directly on former President Donald Trump. It comes as the campaign is launching a full-court press
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — The civil defamation trial of Donald Trump returns on Monday with a verdict likely this week on how much more he owes to former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll has to prove that she is entitled to damages from Trump for
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Dotson and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Stanford University’s Tara VanDerveer is now the all-time winningest coach in all of NCAA basketball history after the Cardinal defeated the Oregon State Beavers 65-56 Sunday at the Maples Pavilion in California. The win gives the VanDerveer 1,203 career wins during her 45-year coaching career, one win clear of former
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A dramatic acquisition saga in one of the world’s fastest growing media industries is headed for a bitter ending. Sony Group (SONY) has called off the merger between its India unit and Mumbai-based Zee Entertainment, the Japanese company said on Monday. The deal was announced two years
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces killed seven militants in a shootout in the country’s volatile southwest near the border with Afghanistan. It says intelligence-based operation was conducted in Zhob district in southwestern Baluchistan province. In a brief statement Monday, it said security forces also recovered munitions after the shootout. Quetta is
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A protester threw papers onto an Australian Open court and briefly delayed the fourth-round match between Olympic champion Alexander Zverev and Cameron Norrie of Britain. A person wearing a face mask threw anti-war pamphlets from the stands onto the court behind the baseline during the third set. Ball kids gathered up
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By Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae and Heather Chen, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Seoul’s police chief has been indicted for negligence over the 2022 crowd crush that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in the popular Itaewon neighborhood that left the nation reeling. South Korean police on Monday confirmed that Kim Kwang-ho, head
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people were without electricity and hundreds of trains have been canceled after the latest in a wave of winter storms lashed Britain and Ireland with heavy rain and wind gusts of almost 100 miles an hour. The U.K.’s Met Office weather service had issued an unusual blanket wind
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