By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. agency that fights HIV plans to slash its workforce by more than half and move many posts to cheaper locations as a result of drastic funding cuts from longtime donors in the United States, Asia and Europe, the agency and staffers ...

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor on Tuesday — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Merz, 69, who ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli plan to seize the Gaza Strip and expand the military operation has alarmed many in the region. Palestinians are exhausted and hopeless, pummeled by 19 months of heavy bombing. Families of ...

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's interim president appointed a new prime minister on Tuesday, a day after Marcel Ciolacu stepped down following the failure of his coalition's candidate to make the runoff in a rerun of the presidential election. Ilie ...

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's ailing former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to the country from London on Tuesday after four months of medical treatment, adding to pressure for its interim leaders to hold elections. The South Asian country has ...

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The premier of Canada's oil-rich province of Alberta said Monday she will hold a referendum on separation from Canada next year if a citizen-led petition reaches the required number of signatures. Speaking on a livestream ...

MELANIE LIDMAN undefined JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military targeted Houthi rebels in Yemen's Red Sea province of Hodeida on Monday with a punishing round of airstrikes, killing at least one person and wounding 35. The strikes came a day after the Iranian-backed rebels launched a missile ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military bulldozers demolished most of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday, taking out the hamlet's infrastructure and leaving residents wandering amid the rubble of their homes. The bulldozers ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza, officials said Monday. The Jerusalem and Sweden branches of the Vatican's Caritas charitable federation released photos of the repurposed ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their priorities as they open the conclave ...