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...
Pishin, Pakistan - At least 28 people were killed Wednesday by two separate bomb blasts outside the offices of election candidates in southwestern Pakistan, on the eve of a national vote marred by violence and allegations of pre-poll rigging. Security personnel inspect the site of a bomb blast...
London, United Kingdom - Opposition politicians demanded UK Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologize Wednesday for making a jibe about transgender people in parliament. A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during the...
Kyiv, Ukraine - Ukraine urged the West on Wednesday to speed up and increase deliveries of artillery shells after a new Russian missile attack on Kyiv and other regions killed four in the capital and wounded more than 40. A law enforcement officer stands next to a residential building, damaged...
Oslo, Norway - Norway on Wednesday announced a fresh donation to the financially stricken UN agency for Palestinian refugees as a humanitarian crisis grips the war-torn Gaza Strip. UNRWA plays a critical role in distributing aid and providing life-saving assistance to Gaza, where an Israeli...
