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By PIYUSH NAGPAL and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of opposition parties dressed in black disrupted India’s Parliament and protested in the capital after Rahul Gandhi, a key opposition leader and fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was expelled from the legislature last week. Hundreds of supporters of Gandhi’s Congress

By ILAN BEN ZION and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside parliament and workers launched a nationwide strike on Monday, as a surging mass protest movement threatened to paralyze the economy in its efforts to halt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary. Departing flights

By ASHOK SHARMA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top opposition leader and fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expelled from Parliament Friday. It came one day after a court convicted Rahul Gandhi of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man who sped away from a traffic stop in Florida last week shot and critically wounded a sheriff’s officer before killing himself during a standoff at his home. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters says the shooting early Sunday left 25-year-old Officer Malik Daricaud “fighting for his life.” Thirty-two-year-old

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals’ wives, a countess and a courtesan. Now she is playing the role of former first lady Pat Nixon as John Adams’ “Nixon in China” gets its Paris Opera premiere in a production starring Thomas Hampson as the president. “Nixon” premiered at

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Socks are rising on Wall Street Monday as battered banks show more strength, at least for now. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher as of 9:55 a.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 250 points, or 0.8%, to 32,490

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether a disabled activist can file disability rights lawsuits against hotels she doesn’t intend to visit. The high court said Monday it would decide a case involving Deborah Laufer. Laufer lives in Florida and has filed hundreds of federal lawsuits against hotel owners and operators. According to

BERLIN (AP) — German weekly Der Spiegel is reporting that Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II asked her hosts for a gift of two horses during her state visit to Germany in 1978. The expensive presents raised eyebrows among German bureaucrats at the time, who noted that they cost more than any other offering made to a