LONDON (AP) – Thousands of junior doctors posted picket lines outside hospitals around England on Tuesday in the first all-out strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service. The two-day strike marks the first time that vital NHS emergency services have been affected by an industrial action. The strike …

NEW DELHI (AP) – Bangladesh’s prime minister vowed to hunt down and prosecute assailants who fatally stabbed two men, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed the main opposition party and allied militants for Monday night’s killings. …

NEW YORK (AP) – Federal regulators will impose several conditions meant to protect online video services as they back Charter’s bid to buy Time Warner Cable and create the country’s second-largest home Internet provider. The Justice Department approved the deal Monday, subject to court approval on the conditions, while Federal …

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Nepal’s prime minister announced on Monday the start of reconstruction of key heritage sites in and around the capital that were damaged by an earthquake that killed nearly 9,000 people and devastated the country one year ago. Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli offered prayers at the …

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Last year’s massive earthquake in Nepal killed nearly 9,000 people, yet could have been much deadlier. It was spared not by disaster preparedness, but by the calendar. It hit on a Saturday. Most children were out of school, and most adults were working in their fields, …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Oil exporting countries in the Middle East lost a staggering $390 billion in revenue due to lower oil prices last year, and should brace for even deeper losses of around $500 billion this year, the International Monetary Fund said Monday. The fund had projected …

LEVEQUE, Haiti (AP) – The three friends had spent the day stocking up on food in the Haitian capital when they left for their village, setting off on the 20-mile trip home by foot because the minibuses known as tap-taps weren’t running after a bridge collapse. Their bodies were found …

Tensions in the South China Sea are rising, pitting China against smaller and weaker neighbors that all lay claim to islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves. China’s recent construction of artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago, complete with airstrips and …

MOUNT EVEREST BASE CAMP, Nepal (AP) – When the earthquake struck last year and thousands of tons of snow and ice and earth came crashing down the mountain, some feared the climbers might never return to Mount Everest. But despite back-to-back Everest disasters – the 2015 earthquake and a massive …

GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top European Union officials, under pressure to reassess a migrant deportation deal with Turkey, were traveling close to Turkey’s border with Syria on Saturday in a bid to bolster the troubled agreement. Human rights groups are criticizing the trip to what …