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September 08, 2016

South Sudan activists say intimidated for meeting diplomats

South Sudanese activists say they face government intimidation in retaliation for meeting with the visiting U.N.

September 07, 2016

GOP, Dems battle over North Carolina early voting rules

The swing state of North Carolina could be pushed in a Republican or Democratic direction when the GOP-led State Board of ...

September 07, 2016

The Latest: Lavrov, Kerry to meet again on Syria

The Latest on Syria's conflict (all times local): 7:45 p.m. Russia says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of ...

September 06, 2016

Syria activists: Warplanes dropped chlorine bombs in Aleppo

Syrian activists and rescue workers in the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo said that government warplanes ...

September 05, 2016

Far-right activist, author Phyllis Schlafly dies at 92

Phyllis Schlafly, the outspoken conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded ...

September 05, 2016

Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates retain veto in key vote

A group of young Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pulled off a stunning election victory, gaining a foothold in the southern ...

September 04, 2016

New wave of anti-China activists set for Hong Kong vote win

A new wave of anti-China activists appeared headed for victory in Hong Kong's most pivotal elections since the handover from ...

September 01, 2016

Lineup announced for inaugural Essence Festival Durban

Singers Kelly Price and Estelle will join comedian and television host Steve Harvey, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton ...

September 01, 2016

AP EXPLAINS: What's at stake in Hong Kong post-protest vote

Hong Kongers vote Sunday to choose candidates for the semiautonomous city's legislature, in the first major election since ...

August 31, 2016

Late appeal moves NFL concussion case to Supreme Court

A last-minute appeal in the NFL concussion case, filed by the son of an all-star and civil rights activist, has sent the ...

August 29, 2016

Human Rights Watch: Palestinians abuse media, activists

Palestinian authorities are silencing dissent by cracking down on free speech and abusing local journalists and activists ...

August 26, 2016

Bolivian president, opposition spar over official's killing

President Evo Morales and his political opponents traded recriminations Friday over the shocking beating death of a ...

Nancy O'Malley, Oscar Grant, Johannes Mehserle

August 25, 2016

Activists asking if police will be charged in sex scandal

Activists and relatives of a teenage woman at the center of a San Francisco Bay Area police sex scandal say they want to know ...

August 25, 2016

Rebels, residents to evacuate long-besieged Damascus suburb

After four years of grueling bombardment and crippling siege, the remaining residents and rebels of a Damascus suburb agreed ...

August 24, 2016

Zimbabwe police fire tear gas, gunshots to quell protests

Zimbabwe police have fired tear gas, water cannons and gunshots to stop hundreds of youths protesting against police ...

August 16, 2016

Democrats seek reversal of ban on federal abortion funding

The law that bans federal funding for Medicaid coverage of most abortions is now in the spotlight some 40 years after it was ...

August 13, 2016

US-backed Syrian force captures key IS stronghold of Manbij

On the streets of Manbij, men chanted slogans against the Islamic State group or clipped their beards and women walked with ...

August 11, 2016

The Latest: Turkey: No joint strikes with Russia in Syria

The Latest on the developments in civil war (all times local): 5:30 p.m. Turkey's foreign minister has clarified comments on ...

August 10, 2016

Former Somali refugee poised to win office in Minnesota

Ilhan Omar spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a young girl, fleeing with her family from civil war in Somalia.