WASHINGTON, United States - White House hopeful Donald Trump said on Saturday he would "encourage" Russia to attack members of NATO who had not met their financial obligations, his most extreme broadside against the military alliance he has long expressed skepticism about. With US lawmakers...
BUDAPEST, Hungary - A Hungarian bookshop has evaded a fine for violating a controversial LGBTQ law owing to a missing comma in the legislation. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist government passed the law against "promoting" homosexuality to minors in 2021, drawing criticism at home and...
DIJON, France - Protesters hurled soup at a Monet painting on Saturday in a museum in southeast France, the latest action by a campaign group that pulled a similar stunt on the Mona Lisa last month. The Musee des Beaux-Arts in France's third largest city said in a communique that the attack on...
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian President Katalin Novak, a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, announced her resignation Saturday following outrage over a pardon granted to a man implicated in a child sexual abuse case. TOPSHOT - A handout picture shows Hungary's President Katalin Novak as she...
MADRID, Spain - Spain's civil guard on Saturday announced eight arrests after a drug traffickers' boat hit a patrol vessel and killed two officers during a chase. The civil guard arrested three of the boat's passengers following Friday's incident in the southern port of Barbate near Cadiz that also...
BERLIN, Germany - NATO's secretary general called on Europe to increase its arms production to support Ukraine and prevent "potentially decades of confrontation" with Moscow, in an interview published by German media Saturday. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A third volcanic eruption that wreaked havoc on Icelandic infrastructure came to an end Saturday, national authorities said, although hot water supplies damaged by the activity will take "several days" to repair. The water supply was briefly restored Friday, but lava spewing...
MADRID, Spain - Spain has seized 620 kilos of cocaine mixed into mineral salt for animal feed that had been shipped to Barcelona from Colombia, the customs agency said on Thursday. The drugs were found concealed inside a shipment of coarse salt destined for animal feed that reached Barcelona on...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Nicaragua has asked to formally join South Africa's genocide case against Israel, the UN's top court said Thursday, with Managua claiming it had "interests of a legal nature" in the highly contested hearings. The Central American country last month announced plans to attach...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine and Russia on Thursday said they swapped 100 prisoners of war each, in the latest exchange between the warring sides since Moscow accused Kyiv of downing a plane carrying captured Ukrainian soldiers. This handout photograph released by Ukrainian presidential press service on...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's top commander Valery Zaluzhny was on Thursday removed from his post, in the biggest shake-up of Kyiv's military leadership since Russia's invasion began almost two years ago. In this handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian Presidential press-service on July 28,...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Officials ordered returning officers to speed up the release of results Friday following a Pakistan election marred by rigging allegations, while the country's most popular politician Imran Khan languished in jail. By 3 am (2300 GMT), some 10 hours after polling stations...
