SYDNEY, Australia - Australian police charged a woman with murder Thursday over a mushroom meal that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life. Erin Patterson, 49, faces three counts of murder and two of attempted murder over the meal, Victoria state detectives said in...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories - Ambulances transported wounded residents out of Gaza for urgent medical care in Egypt Wednesday, with hundreds of desperate foreign passport holders also starting to flee the territory wracked by three weeks of war with Israel. The evacuation of the first...
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey and Iran on Wednesday called for a regional conference aimed at averting the spread of the Israel-Hamas war. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian a day after Iran's top diplomat met Hamas leaders in Qatar. Iran has warned that...
VIENNA, Austria - Austrian police on Wednesday were investigating a fire that damaged a hall at the Jewish part of the Vienna cemetery, with politicians condemning anti-Semitic violence. Cities in Europe have seen a spike in anti-Semitic attacks in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict. In the...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to "accelerate cooperation" with Kazakhstan on Wednesday, as part of a visit to boost France's footprint in Central Asia. The French leader is on a two-day visit to the resource-rich region, where Russia, China, Turkey and...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he "hates the debate" over the value of "Jewish lives" and "Palestinian lives" and called for "civilians in Gaza to be protected first." "I hate this debate dividing people and saying: 'For me Jewish lives are more important'...
PARIS, France - Much of northwestern Europe went on high alert Wednesday as a storm dubbed Ciaran threatened to bring gale-force winds and extreme rainfall to the region. Three French departments -- Finistere, Cotes-d'Armor and Manche -- will be placed on red storm alert, the highest level, at...
GENEVA , Switzerland - The World Health Organization welcomed Wednesday's first evacuations of wounded patients out of the Gaza Strip, but stressed that thousands of injured civilians and people with chronic illnesses also needed treatment. Ambulances transported wounded residents out of the...
MADRID, Spain -- Spain's bishops apologised on Monday after a report estimated more than 200,000 minors had been sexually abused by the country's Roman Catholic clergy since 1940. But the Spanish Episcopal Conference said the numbers mentioned in the report, by an independent commission, "do not...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A former hospital worker was planning to use a homemade bomb to kill "as many nurses as possible" when he was arrested earlier this year, a British court was told on Monday Mohammed Farooq, 28, was found at a hospital in Leeds, northern England, with a viable pressure...
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh walked off the job in protest at low wages Monday, sparking clashes with security forces and damaging multiple factories in unrest that left at least two people dead, police said. Bangladesh is one of the world's largest garment...
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a ceasefire in the Gaza war "will not happen" as it would amount to surrendering to the territory's Islamist rulers Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu also told a press conference that other...
