PARIS, France - France said Wednesday that it was "deeply concerned" about Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip's largest refugee camp, calling for a humanitarian pause to allow aid through. This combination of handout satellite images released by Maxar Technology and created on November 1, 2023,...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted ads without their explicit consent. The order closes off the legal basis used by Meta to...
KUPANG, Indonesia - A 6.1-magnitude quake hit the eastern Indonesia island of Timor on Thursday, shaking the provincial capital and forcing residents to run outside, US seismologists said. The quake struck at a depth of 36.1 kilometres (22.5 miles) on the west of Timor island near the city of...
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...
