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By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden promised voters in 2020 that he knew how to get things done in Washington and could bring stability to the capital. It seemed like a message out of step with the more combative era brought on by Donald Trump. But Biden prevailed,

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An enormous anti-government march took place in Poland’s capital Sunday, with citizens traveling from across the country to voice their anger at a right-wing administration that has eroded democratic norms and created fears the nation is following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy. The

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of members of Sri Lanka’s LGBTQ+ community have paraded through the streets of the capital Colombo to mark the Pride month and demand an end to discrimination. The marchers on Sunday carried rainbow flags and placards calling for a ban of so-called conversion therapies, an end of police harassment

BEIJING (AP) — China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight

MOSCOW (AP) — The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday. Navalny turned 47 on Sunday while serving a nine-year sentence at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow. He was convicted of fraud and contempt of court. He

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Orthodox believers celebrated Trinity Sunday with Russia’s most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow’s main cathedral despite the keepers’ vociferous protests. The Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev, which was kept in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s, was moved to Christ the Savior Cathedral before the holiday on President

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has become the royal family’s most famous litigant in London. The Duke of Sussex has five active legal cases, three of them involving his battle with the British tabloids. He is expected to testify Tuesday in London’s High Court in the first of three cases

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In his first week on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly hit his chief rival, Donald Trump, from the right. “This is a different guy than 2015, 2016,” DeSantis told a conservative radio host before slamming the bipartisan criminal justice

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday. Navalny turned 47 on Sunday while serving a nine-year sentence at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow. He was convicted of fraud and contempt of court, and says the

By KRUTIKA PATHI, SHEIKH SAALIQ and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press BALASORE, India (AP) — The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday. Authorities worked

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature is underway more than a year after the West African nation’s president dissolved parliament. The Centre for Democracy and Development, an African human rights organization, said nearly 1 million voters were registered to elect more than 100

Authorities in southwestern China say 14 people have been killed and five are missing in a landslide. The disaster struck Sunday morning in a rural district of Sichuan province’s Leshan county, where rains have been falling constantly for weeks. More than 180 people have been mobilized to help find those buried under the debris. With

BERLIN (AP) — A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany has killed one person and injured at least eight others. Police in the German state of Thuringia said the fire broke out around 5 a.m. Sunday at a facility in the city of Apolda and that one person had died. A local government

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United States have urged Sudan’s warring parties to agree to and “effectively implement” a cease-fire amid renewed fighting in the northeastern African nation. In a joint statement on Sunday, Washington and Riyadh urged both sides to agree to a new cease-fire following the