Towns reinforce dikes as heavy rains send rivers over their banks in Germany...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Firefighters and volunteers worked to reinforce dikes against rising floodwaters in northern and eastern Germany as heavy rains falling on already soaked ground pushed rivers...
View ArticleThe right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of...
LONDON (AP) — For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading “Just Stop Oil” off...
View Article4 young children and their mother were killed in their French home. The...
MEAUX, France (AP) — Four children between nine months and 10 years old and their mother were killed in their apartment east of Paris, in what local authorities called an exceptionally violent crime....
View ArticleKuwaiti and Saudi hunters killed by a leftover Islamic State group explosive...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The bodies of a Kuwaiti citizen and a Saudi with Kuwaiti residency who had disappeared in Iraq were found Tuesday, Kuwait’s minister of foreign affairs said in a statement. Iraqi...
View ArticleRussian naval ship in Crimea damaged in airstrike by Ukrainian forces,...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The landing ship Novocherkassk was hit at a base in the...
View ArticleSweden moves a step closer to NATO membership after Turkey's parliamentary...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership...
View ArticleHere's what to know about Turkey's decision to move forward with Sweden's bid...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO on Tuesday after the Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee greenlighted a protocol for the Nordic country’s membership in the...
View ArticleLive updates | Netanyahu aide meets with US officials as Israel prepares to...
Top U.S. officials are meeting with Israel’s minister for strategic affairs at the White House amid international pressure for a cease-fire, as Israel apparently prepares to expand its ground...
View ArticleA Russian drone and artillery attack kills 6 in Ukraine and knocks out power...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired almost 50 Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine and shelled a train station where more than 100 civilians were gathered to catch a train to Kyiv, Ukrainian officials...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Kim boasts of achievements as he opens key year-end political...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised what he called achievements and victories that strengthened national power and boosted the country's prestige this year, as he opened...
View ArticleTEPCO's operational ban is lifted, putting it one step closer to restarting...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear safety regulators lifted an operational ban Wednesday imposed on a nuclear plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, the operator behind the Fukushima plant...
View ArticleWolfgang Schaeuble, German elder statesman and finance minister during euro...
BERLIN (AP) — Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis two...
View ArticleRussian presidential hopeful loses appeal against authorities' refusal to...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine on Wednesday lost her appeal against election officials' refusal to accept her nomination for the country's presidential race that...
View ArticleOpposition candidate in Congo alleges police fired bullets as protesters seek...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A main opposition candidate in Congo accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest Wednesday in the capital, as demonstrators demanded a re-do of last week's...
View ArticleLive updates | Israeli forces raid a West Bank refugee camp as troops expand...
Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, killing at least six Palestinians, Palestinian health authorities said Wednesday. The Israeli military also expanded its ground...
View ArticleJacques Delors, architect of the modern EU and ‘Mr. Europe,’ dies aged 98
BRUSSELS (AP) — Jacques Delors, a Paris bank messenger’s son who became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in...
View ArticleUS delegation is meeting with Mexico's government for talks on the surge of...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A top U.S. delegation is meeting with Mexico's president Wednesday in what many see as an attempt to have Mexico do more to limit a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern...
View ArticleIndonesia's navy pushes a boat suspected of carrying Rohingya refugees out of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's navy said Thursday that it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after the vessel approached the shores of Aceh province. The...
View ArticleIran holds funeral for a general who was killed by an alleged Israeli...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran held a funeral Thursday for a high-ranking general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria. Hundreds of mourners...
View ArticleChina reaffirms its military threats against Taiwan weeks before the island's...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Weeks before Taiwan holds elections for its president and legislature, China renewed its threat to use military force to annex the self-governing island democracy it claims as...
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