The leaders of the 27 European Union countries will hold an emergency summit on March 6 about next steps for Ukraine and Europe’s security. European Council President Antonio Costa announced Sunday …
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2/23/25
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Sudan's miliary says it has broken a siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a strategic area in the south-central region and strengthening crucial supply routes in its nearly two …
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BY SAMY MAGDY
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2/23/25
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of …
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By The Associated Press
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2/23/25
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An airport spokesman says an American Airlines flight en route from New York to New Delhi has turned around over the Caspian Sea and landed in Rome. The spokesman with Leonardo da Vinci Airport did …
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2/23/25
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Russia has launched a record number of drones into Ukraine on the eve of the three-year anniversary of Moscow's full-scale invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media …
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By JUSTIN SPIKE
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2/23/25
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What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with a complex lung infection. But he is still pope and very much in charge. His …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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2/23/25
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France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and accompanying warships are in the Philippines after holding combat drills with Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea in a show of firepower …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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2/23/25
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Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut to attend the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital. …
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By BASSEM MROUE and ABBY SEWELL
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2/23/25
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Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers. That's according to the soldier's families. They say soldiers’ wives …
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By RUTH ALONGA
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2/23/25
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The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week. It's part of European efforts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace …
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By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIE CORBET
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2/23/25
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German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty …
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By GEIR MOULSON
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2/23/25
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A deportee from the United States detained in a camp in rural Panama, among a hundred who refused to return to their countries, has described waiting in limbo under “harsh conditions” and cut off …
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By MATIAS DELACROIX and MEGAN JANETSKY
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2/22/25
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A cholera outbreak in a Sudanese city killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days, health authorities said. The outbreak in the southern city of Kosti was blamed …
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2/22/25
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country will decide whether Ukraine joins the European Union. The comments in a State of the Nation address in Budapest on Saturday were a new …
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By JUSTIN SPIKE
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2/22/25
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Thousands rally in Romania's capital to support far-right Georgescu after annulled presidential race
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Romania’s capital in a show of support for Calin Georgescu. The far-right populist emerged as the front-runner in last year’s presidential …
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2/22/25
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A former surgeon is going on trial in France for the rape and sexual abuse of 299 victims over a period spanning more than three decades. The 74-year-old Joël Le Scouarnec will face hundreds of …
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By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and SYLVIE CORBET
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2/22/25
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Investigators say the suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews. Police and …
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2/22/25
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As Ukraine approached the three-year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the country’s hoped-for path to a favorable and lasting peace has been upended in a matter of days by the administration …
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By JUSTIN SPIKE
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2/22/25
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Five of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices will decide in the next three weeks whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others charged by the country’s prosecutor-general with attempting a …
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE
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2/22/25
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The United States has proposed a draft resolution for the U.N. General Assembly that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow’s …
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2/21/25
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