Algerian officials are criticizing various television stations for their content choices during Ramadan.Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Lagab accused networks of straying from ethical standards.Lagab also criticized excessive advertising, voicing the need for balance between programming and commercials.Officials in Algeria are chiding television stations over the content choices they’ve made since…

German authorities have issued an entry ban on a prominent Austrian European far-right figure known for his talk about “remigration” at a recent meeting of nationalist populists that triggered large protests against populism in the country.Martin Sellner of the Identitarian Movement said in a video posted Tuesday on social media…

Mexico’s president on Tuesday praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the attack “daring” and said “we should thank” Villa for it.”We should thank Villa for, among other things, the…

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned escalating violence in Burma shortly after Monday airstrikes killed at least 25 members of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.Guterres “condemns all forms of violence and reiterates his call for the protection of civilians, including aid workers in accordance with international humanitarian law, for the cessation…

Eight members have been nominated to the council that will select an interim successor to Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.Haiti has found itself under effective gang control after Henry was barred from re-entry after traveling abroad.Gangs have set fire to police stations, threatened the international airport, and freed over 4,000…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq on Tuesday, Turkey’s defense ministry said, hours after a Turkish soldier was killed and four others were wounded in an attack in the region.Turkey often launches strikes against targets in Syria and…

Residents and schoolkids in Mexico City helped squads of police in a long-winded pursuit of a wolf loose in one of the city’s neighborhoods, authorities said.Citizens and police officers chased the animal on foot and on motorbikes in the north-side neighborhood, before the medium-sized wolf finally was cornered “with the…

Colombia’s largest criminal group said Tuesday it has accepted President Gustavo Petro’s offer to start peace negotiations, but the next steps in any talks were not immediately clear.The Gaitanista Self Defense Forces of Colombia — called the Gulf Clan by Colombia’s government — has been described by analysts as a…

A prominent independent journalist went on trial in Belarus on Tuesday on extremism charges widely seen as politically motivated.Ihar Karnei, who used to write for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other independent news outlets, is accused of participating in an extremist group, which is punishable by up to six years…

Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people in both places struggling to avoid starvation.That’s according to international food security experts and aid groups, who are warning about the toll from hunger…