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...
BRUSSELS, Belgium– Facebook owner Meta's text-based app Threads arrived in the European Union on Thursday, months after its global launch in July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Threads is a spin-off of the Instagram photo app and is intended to be a rival to X, formerly known as...
HANOI, Vietnam - China and Vietnam should oppose any "attempt to mess up Asia-Pacific", President Xi Jinping said Wednesday during a trip to Hanoi, as Beijing seeks to counter expanding US influence with the communist nation. The trip is Xi's first to neighbouring Vietnam in six years, and the...
STRASBOURG, France - EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday backed imposing sanctions on "extremist" Israeli settlers responsible for attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. "The rise in violence by extremist settlers is inflicting immense suffering on the Palestinians. It undermines the...
OSLO, Norway - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged allies in Europe and the US to continue to back Kyiv, as disputes in Brussels and Washington hold up new aid packages. He was speaking ahead of a meeting with the leaders of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden,...
OSLO, Norway - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has "no reason" to block Kyiv from joining the European Union, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday on the eve of an EU summit. "I asked him to tell me one reason why. Not three, not five, not 10. Tell me one reason,"...
RENNES, France - A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife at a school in northern France on Wednesday, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system. No-one was injured in the incident in the northwestern city of...
