SYDNEY (AP) — Australia is now the first country to allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain psychedelic substances to patients with depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Beginning Saturday, Australian physicians can prescribe doses of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for PTSD. ...
By KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone's main opposition party on Saturday demanded a re-run of last weekend's presidential election after incumbent President Julius Maada Bio was declared the winner and swiftly sworn in for a second term in the West ...
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya killing at least 51 people, police said. The Friday evening accident occurred at a location known for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley town of ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was barred Friday from running for office again until 2030 after a panel of judges concluded that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country's ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to immediately end its peacekeeping mission in Mali as demanded by the country's military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group to help fight an ...
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union's border agency is seeking "clarifications and information" from Greece's coast guard on two alleged cases of migrants who crossed by boat being illegally deported back to Turkey, a European ...
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veterinarians are preparing to airlift an Asian elephant from Sri Lanka back to its home country of Thailand this weekend after it spent more than two decades at a Buddhist temple where activists alleged it was abused. The Thai ...
By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Protesters erected barricades, lit fires and shot fireworks at police, who responded with tear gas and water cannons in French streets overnight as tensions grew over the deadly police shooting of a ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Close to half of Haiti's people, 2.2 million adults and 3 million children, need humanitarian aid and thousands of youngsters face "staggering levels" of gender-based violence, the head of the U.N. children's agency said ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian invasion. The meeting in the Ukrainian ...
By ZARAR KHAN Associated PRess ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund agreed to provide $3 billion to Pakistan — a long-awaited relief to bail out the impoverished country's ailing economy. The nine-month agreement must be approved by the IMF's Executive Board, which is ...
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The ambush had been postponed three times before Ukrainian commanders decided one recent night that conditions were finally right. Cloaked in darkness, a battalion of Kyiv's 129th brigade pressed ahead, advancing stealthily on ...
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — In Japan, a nation reputed for loyalty to companies and lifetime employment, people who job-hop are often viewed as quitters. And that's considered shameful. Enter "taishoku daiko," or "job-leaving agents." Dozens of such services have sprung ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Thursday that will establish an independent body to determine what happened to more than 130,000 people missing as a result of the conflict in Syria. The resolution, an important ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican health authorities say there have been at least 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, acknowledging the deadliness of a recent heat wave that the president previously said was being overblown by alarmist journalists. The report, released late Wednesday, also ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As South Korea campaigns to retire an old and odd age-counting method that makes people a year or two older than they really are, children are among the few who seem most eager to stick with the past. "I turned 6 and then became ...
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A suspect has been charged in the stabbing of a professor and two students during a class on gender issues at Canada's University of Waterloo in what police are calling a hate-motivated attack. Waterloo Regional Police say Geovanny ...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ALI JABAR Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of followers of the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada Sadr briefly stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday in protest of the burning of a Quran in Sweden. An Iraqi security ...
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — What's a World Cup without an anthem, a rallying song for fans around the world? In advance of the Women's World Cup, running July 20 through Aug. 20, New Zealand alt-pop artist BENEE and Australian musician Mallrat have released "Do It ...
By GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Residents of Uruguay's capital are increasingly exasperated after two months of salty-tasting tap water that has damaged water heaters, boosted demand for bottled water and reportedly caused stomach ailments. The water "comes ...