BRUSSELS, Belgium - A burgeoning row between France and Germany fired by differences over nuclear energy and combustion engines threatened to spill over into a gathering of the 27 European Union leaders Thursday. Existing strains between the European Union's two biggest players after Berlin...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday was visiting the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson partially controlled by Russian forces, after Kyiv's troops captured the regional capital late last year, the presidency said. Ukraine forces recaptured Kherson city, the...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A London jury on Thursday found Nigeria's former deputy Senate president guilty of plotting to harvest a street trader's kidney for his sick daughter, in the first UK case of its kind. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, 50, were found...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A 28-year-old man was remanded in custody on Thursday accused of attempting to murder two elderly men who were set on fire shortly after leaving mosques in the UK. Mohammed Abbkr, 28, from Edgbaston in Birmingham, central England, was placed in custody by the city's...
FRANKFURT, Germany - German unions called a major transport strike for Monday as workers demand higher wages to cope with surging inflation, the latest industrial action in Europe's top economy. Staff at airports, ports, the railways, buses and subways will walk out across much of the...
MADRID, Spain - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday he will meet with President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week to discuss China's peace plan for Ukraine. "I think it is important to learn first-hand" what China's position is, Sanchez told reporters in Brussels where he was...
PARIS, France - There is no sign the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow will rein in President Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine, even if it again highlights a lopsided relationship where Russia is clearly the junior partner, analysts say. Xi held two days of talks this week...
MOSCOW, Russia - The leaders of China and Russia hailed a "new era" in their relationship on Tuesday, putting on a united front in Moscow as Vladimir Putin accused the West of rejecting Beijing's proposals to end the Ukraine conflict. The nations, eager to curb Western power, expressed...
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - The Kuwait Oil Company declared a "state of emergency" Monday over an oil spill on land, in an incident decried by environmental activists as a "recurring problem" in the energy-rich Gulf state. The emergency was sparked by an "oil leak in the west of the country", the...
WASHINGTON, United States - Disturbing video footage released Tuesday shows the death of a 28-year-old Black man as he was being admitted to a US mental hospital, where he was forcibly restrained by as many as 10 police officers and hospital security guards. Irvo Otieno's March 6 death in...
WASHINGTON, United States - Joe Biden used an arts awards ceremony Tuesday -- where one honoree was an actress who famously played a fictional president -- to drop perhaps his heaviest hint yet that he's seeking a second White House term in 2024. Presenting a National Humanities Medal to...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - Humanity's "lifeblood" -- water -- is increasingly at risk around the world due to "vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment," the UN warned in a report, published hours ahead of a major summit on the issue was set to begin Wednesday. The world is "blindly...
