Holiday blues: French strikes hit Christmas shopping season
PARIS — Last year, it was the yellow vest protests. This year, it’s the strikes that have crippled Paris. The Christmas holidays aren’t proving to be ...
New construction seen at missile-related site in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — A new satellite image of a factory where North Korea makes military equipment used to launch long-range missiles shows the constr...
From New York to Moscow, Holocaust survivors share memories
PARIS — Holocaust survivors in several cities around the world are lighting candles for Hanukkah together, as Jewish community leaders try to keep fir...
Government proposes release of Fukushima water to sea or air
TOKYO — Japan's economy and industry ministry proposed on Monday the gradual release or evaporation of massive amounts of treated but still radioactiv...
Algeria’s military chief Gaid Salah dies amid protest crisis
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria's powerful military chief died unexpectedly Monday, according to government media reports, leaving his country gripped by p...
China attacks US Space Force as threat to outer space peace
BEIJING — Rising space power China on Monday attacked the newly created U.S. Space Force as a “direct threat to outer space peace and security."
China, South Korea look to improve ties with Beijing summit
BEIJING — The leaders of South Korea and China said Monday that they look forward to improved ties following a protracted disagreement over the deploy...
Going west, migrants wander through Bosnia in Balkan winter
BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia's notorious Vucjak camp may have closed down after an international outcry, but the plight of migrants stranded in ...
Saudi Arabia cuts loose with bevy of models and a rave
DIRIYAH, Saudi Arabia — Supermodels and social media mavens, their makeup artists and hair stylists in tow, posed at a concert in leather pants, chunk...
Giuliani pals leveraged GOP access to seek Ukraine gas deal
KYIV, Ukraine — In a back corner of the swank H Bar in Houston, near a huge photo of Brigitte Bardot with a dangling cigarette and a deck of cards, tw...
Buzz over Venezuela’s Guaido fades as Maduro holds firm
CARACAS, Venezuela — Tour operator Alejandro Palacios joined hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting in the streets early this year, wanting t...
Australia’s PM defends climate stance amid wildfire disaster
PERTH, Australia — Australia's embattled Prime Minister defended his government’s climate policy Monday, as authorities warned the wildfires crisis ra...
Exit poll, early tally indicate runoff for Croatia president
ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia's tight presidential election appeared set to be decided in a runoff as initial returns and an exit poll suggested that none...
Notre Dame fire wakes the world up to dangers of lead dust
PARIS — It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for lead, a toxic building mat...
Iran rejects ‘conditional release’ for Iranian-British woman
TEHRAN, Iran — The lawyer of an Iranian-British woman convicted on spying charges in Iran has asked that she be released after serving half of her sen...
Australia’s leader apologizes for vacation amid wildfires
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized Sunday for taking a family vacation in Hawaii as deadly bushfires raged across several st...
Macron vows to keep fighting extremism in West Africa
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — France's President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to boost the fight against Islamic extremism in West Africa as French troops kille...
23 dead as protests grow against India citizenship law
NEW DELHI — Nine people died Saturday during clashes between demonstrators and police in northern India, raising the nationwide death toll in protests...
India suspends internet and phone services to quell protests
NEW DELHI — Indian authorities have stepped up phone and mobile internet shutdowns in some parts of the country in an effort to thwart a groundswell o...
More protests as India grapples with citizenship law fallout
NEW DELHI — Police in the Indian capital charged more than a dozen people with rioting and the government asked broadcasters to refrain from using con...
Australia battles ‘catastrophic’ wildfires as PM rushes home
PERTH, Australia — Australia’s most populous state was paralyzed by “catastrophic” fire conditions Saturday amid souring temperatures, while one perso...
India bans citizenship law protests as death toll hits 14
NEW DELHI — Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to counte...
DHS watchdog finds no wrongdoing in deaths of 2 migrant kids
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog found no wrongdoing or misconduct by immigration officials in the deaths of two m...
Son of Russian spies relieved to keep Canadian citizenship
TORONTO — The son of a Russian spy couple who lived clandestine lives in Canada and the United States said Friday that he wants a future in Canada aft...
Trump heads to Florida while impeachment trial still cloudy
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was heading south to sunny Florida on Friday after his historic impeachment, while plans for his speedy trial back...
Vatican office struggles to keep up with clergy abuse cases
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world ...
Palace: Prince Philip in hospital as ‘precautionary measure’
LONDON — Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was admitted to a London hospital Friday “as a precautionary measure,” Buckingham Palace sa...
Putin bristles at Western criticism of 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday strongly rejected Western criticism of a 1939 Soviet pact with Nazi Germany, arguing that Western ...
UK lawmakers OK Johnson’s Brexit bill, pave way to exit EU
LONDON — British lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill, clearing the way for the U.K. to leave the ...