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As Turkey heads to runoff presidential race, domestic issues loom large

May. 27, 2023 02:52 AM EDT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has parlayed his country’s NATO membership and location straddling Europe and the Middle East into international influence, is favored to win reelection in a presidential runoff Sunday, despite a host of domestic issues. ...

Phoenix faces dueling lawsuits over homeless crisis as advocates scramble for more shelter

May. 26, 2023 18:31 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is facing dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a crisis of homelessness that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people as summer temperatures soar. The city was ordered by the local Superior Court to clear out the downtown...

Rights groups slam severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as 'crime against humanity'

May. 26, 2023 08:40 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two top rights groups on Friday slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan as gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity. In a new report, Amnesty International and the International Commission for...

Supreme Court rules in favor of 94-year-old woman who got nothing when county took her condo

May. 25, 2023 11:04 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday gave a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman a new chance to recoup some money after the county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a small unpaid tax bill. The justices ruled that Hennepin County, Minnesota...

Turkish voters weigh final decision on next president, visions for future

May. 25, 2023 02:40 AM EDT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two opposing visions for Turkey's future are on the ballot when voters return to the polls Sunday for a runoff presidential election that will decide between an increasingly authoritarian incumbent and a challenger who has pledged to restore democracy. ...

Canada, Saudi Arabia restore ties 5 years after spat over women's rights activists

May. 24, 2023 14:39 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Canada and Saudi Arabia agreed Wednesday to restore full diplomatic relations and appoint new ambassadors, five years after a dispute over women’s rights activists damaged relations and trade between the two countries. In 2018, Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s...

Why Turkey’s president is strong election favorite despite economic turmoil

May. 23, 2023 13:15 PM EDT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has remained in power for 20 years by repeatedly surmounting political crises: mass protests, corruption allegations, an attempted military coup and a huge influx of refugees fleeing Syria's civil war. Now the Turkish...

How one North Carolina lawmaker's defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections

May. 19, 2023 16:12 PM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mere weeks before North Carolina's GOP-controlled legislature enacted a 12-week abortion limit over the Democratic governor's opposition this week, state Republican lawmakers appeared just one vote shy of an override. But one House Democrat — formerly a...

She killed a man while he was raping her, and a court in Mexico sentenced her to 6 years in prison

May. 17, 2023 18:25 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican woman who killed a man defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday. The ruling against Roxana Ruiz spurred...

Rita Lee's fans and family gather for final goodbye to Brazil's 'Queen of Rock'

May. 10, 2023 12:19 PM EDT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of fans mourning the death of Brazil’s “Queen of Rock” lined up in the rain early Wednesday to join relatives of Rita Lee Jones at a wake for the singer inside a planetarium in Sao Paulo. Rita Lee, as she was popularly known, died Monday at age 75....