KYIV, Ukraine - A Ukrainian village councillor set off hand grenades at a meeting, wounding 26 people, national police said Friday, triggering the launch of a terror investigation. The incident took place Friday morning at the headquarters of the village council of Keretsky in western...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A UK teenager found in France after disappearing in Spain six years ago when he was 11 is likely to return to Britain in days, police said Friday. Alex Batty, originally from the northern English city of Oldham, was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area in...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A UK judge ruled on Friday that Prince Harry was a victim of phone hacking by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), and awarded the royal £140,600 ($179,600) in damages. The decision is one in a number of legal cases brought by Harry against British...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Russia congratulated Hungary on Friday for blocking EU financial aid to Ukraine at a Brussels summit that nonetheless saw EU leaders overcome Budapest's opposition to agree Kyiv starting membership talks. "Hungary, in contrast to many European countries, firmly defends its...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The Swiss government and the European Commission want to begin talks on a cooperation agreement "without delay", they said in a joint statement Friday. Both parties said they believed a positive outcome was now "within reach" two years after the Swiss suddenly slammed the...
TOKYO, Japan -- A worker at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has had a high radiation level detected in his nose, authorities said, in a reminder of the hazards involved in cleaning up the facility crippled in 2011. This file picture taken on January 20, 2023 shows the storage tanks for...
BRUSSLES, Belgium - EU leaders agreed Thursday to open talks with Ukraine on joining the bloc, after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ducked out of his threat to veto the plan. TOPSHOT - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (CL) and France's President Emmanuel Macron (CR) shake hands ahead of...
TOULOUSE, France - A British boy who disappeared in Spain six years ago when he was 11 has been found in a mountainous area in France, prosecutors said on Thursday. The boy, Alex Batty, now 17, was found close to the town of Revel southeast of the southern city of Toulouse, regional prosecutors...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged "victory" in Ukraine on Thursday as he staged an upbeat press conference a week after announcing plans to stay in the Kremlin until at least 2030. This pool photograph distributed by Russia's state agency Sputnik shows Russian President...
WASHINGTON, United States - A federal jury began deliberations on Thursday to determine how much former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani should pay for defaming two Georgia poll workers with his false claims that they engaged in election fraud. Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss are...
HONG KONG, China– Hong Kong police on Thursday issued bounties of HK$1 million for each of five prominent activists currently living overseas, accusing them of national security crimes. All five are living abroad after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the...
MOSCOW, Russia– President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russian had deployed more than 600,000 military personnel in Ukraine, nearly two years after he ordered his troops to capture the capital Kyiv. Kyiv and Moscow are believed to have suffered massive casualties after months of...
