The European Union has agreed to dispatch a civilian mission to Armenia to help boost security around its border and improve relations with neighboring Azerbaijan. The move comes amid tensions over a …
more
1/23/23
|
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow was willing to negotiate with Ukraine in the early months of the war but the United States and other Western nations advised Kyiv against it. …
more
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME
|
1/23/23
|
A snow storm packing strong winds has wreaked traffic chaos on a key highway in Slovenia and has left parts of the country temporarily without electricity. Officials said Monday the late Sunday …
more
1/23/23
|
The accident investigation boards of Estonia, Finland and Sweden say there is no indication that there was a collision or an explosion on a ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea 28 years ago in one of …
more
1/23/23
|
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II and pledged to push a military buildup under a newly adopted security …
more
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
|
1/23/23
|
Turkey’s president has announced May 14 as the date for the country’s next parliamentary and presidential elections. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who plans to seek reelection, made the …
more
1/22/23
|
Somalia’s government says five civilians were killed when al-Qaida-linked extremists stormed a regional government office in the capital. The founder of an ambulance service told The Associated …
more
By OMAR FARUK
|
1/22/23
|
One of Haiti’s nearly 200 gangs ambushed a police unit, sending gunfire echoing through the streets in an unexpected area — a mansion-lined stretch of the country’s capital, Port-Au-Prince. The …
more
By MEGAN JANETSKY
|
1/22/23
|
The Russian parliament speaker has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction. The message follows new pledges of armored vehicles, air-defense …
more
By ANDREW MELDRUM
|
1/22/23
|
Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey. Some 250 people gathered outside the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul, where a photo of Danish anti-Islam …
more
1/22/23
|