By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who served almost nine years in office after seizing power in a 2014 military coup, said Tuesday that he is leaving politics. His announcement came after the political party for which he ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Authorities in Iceland on Tuesday warned tourists and other spectators to stay away from a newly erupting volcano that is spewing lava and noxious gases from a fissure in the country's southwest. The eruption began Monday afternoon after thousands of earthquakes in ...

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday blasted as "absurd" the absence of a timetable for his country's membership in NATO, injecting harsh criticism into a gathering of the alliance's ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that restrictions imposed by a government ministry on a transgender female employee's use of restrooms at her workplace are illegal, in a landmark decision that could promote LGBTQ+ rights in a country ...

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany's conservative opposition leader said Tuesday that large-scale migration is one of the country's biggest problems and the main reason for a recent surge in support for the far right. But Friedrich Merz ruled out cooperating at the ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities evicted a Palestinian family from a contested apartment in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday, capping a decades-long legal battle that has come to symbolize the conflicting claims to the holy city. Activists say the ...