Defense budgets set to dominate yet another NATO summit
BRUSSELS — Despite pleas to set aside bickering over military spending so the issue doesn’t dominate a third NATO summit in a row, the United States i...
NATO under friendly fire as leaders ready for London summit
BRUSSELS — NATO leaders will gather in London on Tuesday as the world’s biggest military alliance, marking its 70th birthday, battles with one of the ...
UK probes Google’s Looker purchase over competition concerns
LONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog says it’s investigating Google’s purchase of cloud data analytics company Looker Data Sciences, adding to the ...
UN chief urges countries not to surrender on climate fight
MADRID — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to give up in the fight against climate change, as representatives from ne...
Germany: Merkel’s party rejects full overhaul of coalition
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is rejecting a root-and-branch renegotiation of the agreement underpinning Germany’s government after the ju...
France pays homage to 13 soldiers killed in Mali air crash
PARIS — In its biggest military funeral in decades, France is honoring 13 soldiers killed when their helicopters collided over Mali while on a mission...
Rock tragedy: Music superstars, small suburb forever linked
FINNEYTOWN, Ohio — Tragedy four decades ago linked the British rock band The Who to a small suburban city in Ohio.
Malta leader to resign amid protests over reporter’s death
VALLETTA, Malta — Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the nation Sunday night that he would resign in January, following pressure from angry cit...
London extremist attack takes center stage in UK campaign
LONDON — Britain’s political leaders sparred Sunday over who is responsible for the early release of a convicted extremist who launched a stabbing att...
London attack victims took part in program with prisoners
LONDON — Three of the five people who were killed or wounded in the London stabbing attack were former Cambridge University students or staff members ...
Pope says Nativity scenes should go in town squares, schools
GRECCIO, Italy — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed Nativity scenes as “simple and admirable” signs of Christian faith and encouraged their placement in wo...
New EU leaders take office vowing to tackle climate change
BRUSSELS — A new team of leaders took office at the helm of the European Union on Sunday, pledging to put the fight against climate change at the top ...
Conductor Mariss Jansons dies at 76; led top orchestras
FRANKFURT, Germany — Latvian-born conductor Mariss Jansons, who led top classical ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Royal ...
Hong Kong pro-democracy rally cut short by police tear gas
HONG KONG — Thousands took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators h...
Warming toll: 1 degree hotter, trillions of tons of ice gone
Since leaders first started talking about tackling the problem of climate change, the world has spewed more heat-trapping gases, gotten hotter and suf...
Albania calls for international help to recover from quake
TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s prime minister is calling on the international community for financial aid and expert assistance to help the country recov...
Maltese prosecutors charge businessman in reporter’s killing
VALLETTA, Malta — Maltese prosecutors on Saturday charged a prominent local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of anti-corruption journa...
Londoners fought back to curtail carnage in bridge attack
LONDON — Even in times of shared, senseless tragedy, an uplifting moment sometimes emerges.
Londoners a reminder of how ordinary people can fight back
The people who used a fire extinguisher and even a 5-foot (1.5 meter) narwhal tusk Friday to fight back against an attacker who stabbed two people to ...
Malta prosecutors charge local businessman with being accomplice in 2017 car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist
VALLETTA, Malta — Malta prosecutors charge local businessman with being accomplice in 2017 car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist.
Dutch police arrest suspect in stabbing of 3 teens
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man Saturday on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that ...
Liverpool opens up 11-point lead over Man City in EPL
Liverpool’s march to a first English league championship in 30 years is turning into a procession.
The Latest: Merkel’s partners choose left-leaning leadership
BERLIN — The Latest on leadership of Germany’s Social Democrats (all times local):
Science warnings, US retreat add urgency to UN climate talks
MADRID — Mass protests, a last-minute venue change and talk of climate tipping points are adding some unplanned drama to this year’s international tal...
Focus on early release of terror convict in London stabbings
LONDON — UK counterterrorism police on Saturday searched for clues into how a man imprisoned for terrorism offenses before his release last year manag...
Albania’s search for quake victims ends; death toll up to 51
TIRANA, Albania — The search and rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, the prime minister said Saturday, with the death toll...
Vietnam receives last of 39 remains of trafficking victims
DO THANH, Vietnam — The last remains of the 39 Vietnamese who died while being smuggled in a truck to England last month were repatriated to their hom...
UK police: Bridge attacker had been jailed for terror crimes
LONDON — A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people Friday in London, killing two in what police are treating as a terrorist attack be...
The Latest: Police say 3 minors injured in Hague stabbing
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Latest on stabbings in The Hague (all times local):
France summons Turkish envoy over Erdogan jab at Macron
PARIS — The French government summoned the Turkish ambassador Friday to seek explanations after his president described French President Emmanuel Macr...