Families scramble to help after deadly cyclone rips through French territory...
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Relatives of families struggling after Cyclone Chido ripped through the French island territory of Mayotte expressed helplessness Wednesday, a day before France’s president...
View ArticleMauritius wants to rethink a deal with the UK over remote islands housing a...
LONDON (AP) — The British government said Wednesday it still plans to hand over a contested Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically important military base, to Mauritius, after that...
View ArticleRussia says it has detained a suspect in the Moscow bombing that killed a...
Russia's security service said Wednesday it detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his southeastern Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was...
View ArticleCyclone Chido leaves Mayotte reeling. Warmer oceans fueled it
The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte is reeling from Cyclone Chido, the most intense storm to hit the French territory in 90 years. At least 22 people have been killed since Chido made landfall on...
View ArticleMiddle East latest: Israel orders another Gaza evacuation ahead of an offensive
The Israeli military on Wednesday ordered Palestinians to evacuate another section of central Gaza ahead of an offensive in the built-up Bureij refugee camp, even as Israel and the Hamas appeared to...
View ArticleWhat Assad's fall has revealed about Syria's trade in the stimulant drug...
BEIRUT (AP) — Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of the amphetamine-like stimulant Captagon have been uncovered around the country, which...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch says Israel's restriction of water supply in Gaza amounts...
NEW YORK (AP) — Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in a campaign that...
View ArticleRomania's political tumult continues as leftist party leaves talks to form...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s leftist Social Democratic Party on Thursday withdrew from negotiations to form a pro-European coalition government, extending political turmoil that has gripped the...
View ArticleItaly's Salvini faces verdict for blocking migrants at sea. Case weighs...
MILAN (AP) — Italy’s deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, is sounding defiant as he awaits Friday’s verdict in Sicily for blocking some 100 migrants at sea on a humanitarian rescue boat in 2019 when he was...
View ArticleAs Russia threats loom, Finland's people are learning to shoot back
KERAVA, Finland (AP) — Unsettled by Russia's expansionism and emboldened by its recent accession to NATO, Finland is rallying to strengthen its national self-defense beyond its traditional military...
View ArticleIsraeli airstrikes hit Yemen's rebel-held capital and port city after Houthi...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A series of intense Israeli airstrikes shook Yemen's rebel-held capital and a port city early Thursday and killed at least nine people, officials said, shortly after...
View ArticleGerman lawmakers back plan to protect supreme court against meddling by...
BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation designed to protect the country's highest court against possible future manipulation or obstruction by authoritarian or extremist...
View ArticleNumber of dead and missing still unclear as first aid arrives in quake-hit...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Amid the havoc wrought by a violent earthquake two days earlier, Ivan Oswald and his staff prepared for lunchtime service Thursday at Nambawan Cafe, on an idyllic...
View ArticleEU leaders insist no decisions can be taken about Ukraine without Ukraine, or...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders insisted on Thursday that no decisions can be taken about the future of war-ravaged Ukraine without its consent or behind the backs of its partners in Europe,...
View ArticleFrance's Macron visits cyclone-devastated Mayotte as residents plead for...
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte to survey Cyclone Chido’s destruction and was immediately confronted with a first-hand...
View ArticlePutin boasts of gains in Ukraine at annual news conference meant to reinforce...
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of key ally Bashar Assad in Syria had hurt Moscow’s prestige,...
View ArticleGisèle Pelicot's Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A group of Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant...
View ArticleWarring tribes in Pakistan’s northwest ordered to hand over weapons after...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Warring tribes in Pakistan’s northwest were ordered to hand over their weapons after weeks of deadly violence, authorities said Friday. Clashes in the Kurram district of...
View ArticleChinese national charged with acting as Beijing's agent in local California...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese national was arrested Thursday on charges of acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed politician elected to a city council...
View ArticleItaly's privacy watchdog fines OpenAI for ChatGPT's violations in collecting...
ROME (AP) — Italy’s data protection watchdog said Friday it has fined OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.6 million) after wrapping up a probe into the collection of personal data by the U.S. artificial...
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