BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some of Hungary’s best-known online personalities led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters in Budapest on Friday to demand a change in the country’s political culture, a response to the conservative president’s recent resignation over a pardon she issued in a child sexual abuse case.Demonstrators…

MUNICH (AP) — Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said.The meeting between U.S. Secretary of State…

Senegal will hold its next presidential election as soon as possible after a Constitutional Council ruling.The ruling overrode President Macky Sall’s delay of the Feb. 25 election, raising concerns of authoritarian creep in one of Africa’s most stable democracies.Sall reportedly intends to cooperate with the order.Senegal will hold a presidential…

Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday as a perpetuation of the African country’s homophobic practices.The state university scholarship for people between the ages of 18 and 35 is sponsored by GALZ, a…

An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence on Friday killed at least three workers and left two others missing, local officials said.The accident happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities said rescue…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationship.Charles McGonigal, 55, supervised…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top UN court on Friday rejected a South African request to impose urgent measures to safeguard Rafah in the Gaza Strip, but also stressed that Israel must respect earlier measures imposed late last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case.The International…

A top court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines upheld laws on Friday that criminalize gay sex, a blow to activists who have long decried the violence the LGBTQ+ community has faced on the conservative Caribbean archipelago.The ruling by St. Vincent’s High Court stems from a 2019 case filed by…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases, a defense lawyer said.Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and marriage…

Sudan’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video that purportedly shows some of its troops carrying the severed heads of members of the rival paramilitary faction in the country’s civil war, the military said Friday.The military released a statement that denounced the “shocking content” of the video, which…