Iranian media are reporting that thousands of paramilitary forces from the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard have held a war game simulating the capture of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control.
PARIS (AP) — The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died a day ago along with his female cousin in a police raid on a suburban apartment building, French officials said Thursday, adding it was still
ROME — The State Department is warning that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Milan’s cathedral and La Scala opera house, as well as “general venues” like churches, synagogues, restaurants, theaters and hotels have been identified as “potential targets” in those
US intelligence warned in May that the Islamic State had developed the capability to carry out the kind of attack claimed by the extremist group in Paris and explicitly picked out the alleged mastermind. An assessment published by the Office
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A plane taking 161 tourists from Poland to Egypt landed in Bulgaria and was being checked for explosives after a passenger said there was a bomb on board, Bulgarian and Polish officials said Thursday. Georgy Tchipilsky,
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new prime minister, Beata Szydlo, vowed Wednesday the country will cooperate with the European Union in fighting extremism, but was reserved on accepting refugees. Szydlo opened her policy speech with a condemnation of last week’s
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a homemade bomb placed on board in a “terrorist” act, the head of Russia’s FSB security service told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. “According to
PARIS (AP) — A Belgian official says seven people have been detained in Belgium linked to the Paris attacks. The official, who spoke to The Associated Press in Brussels by phone, also said two of the seven attackers who died
Berlin police say they’ve raided 10 buildings in the German capital as part of a crackdown on hate speech on social media networks. Police said Thursday that the morning raids involved 60 officers, who confiscated smartphones and computers as evidence,
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been looking unusually vulnerable as she prepares to meet the world’s top leaders this week, struggling to slow a huge influx of migrants amid mounting demands to do just that. Merkel’s optimistic
Cheers erupted and people danced in the streets Saturday as Sierra Leone marked the end of the Ebola outbreak within its borders, although neighboring Guinea still struggles to stamp out the deadly virus that has killed more than 11,000 mostly in West Africa.
PARIS (AP) — France will reinstate controls on its borders — normally open to other countries in Europe’s free-travel zone — for the period around a major UN climate conference in Paris, the interior minister said Friday. Authorities are on
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says a 22-year-old woman has been stoned to death by a group of men identified as Taliban insurgents after she was accused of adultery.
LESBOS, Greece — A garbage-strewn hillside on this Greek island has become the European Union’s testing ground for a new fast-track registration process for migrants. If it works, authorities plan rapid expansion to other refugee “hotspots” struggling to cope with
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan will take back all its citizens to be deported from Germany as the European country struggles to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who have arrived there this year, a Kabul official said. Afghans
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s struggle to staunch the flow of hundreds of thousands of people across its borders represents the continent’s biggest refugee emergency in over half a century. But far from being insurmountable, many of the EU’s
BERLIN (AP) — Violence against Syrian asylum seekers spiked over the weekend with police Sunday reporting three different attacks in which six Syrian refugees had to be treated for injuries in the hospital. Two of the attacks, in Wismar and
BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86. His widow, Irina Schabowski, told
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The latest developments after a Russian passenger plane crashed in a remote part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board (all times local).
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s Islamic extremists attacked a hotel at dawn Sunday in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least nine people and injuring 10, a police official said. The attack started at daybreak when a suicide bomber detonated a
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s internationally recognized government says Italian vessels entered the country’s territorial waters without permission and vowed to use “all means” to protect its sovereignty. It says three Italian vessels were spotted off the coast of the
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turks headed to the polls Sunday for the second time in five months in a crucial election that will determine whether the ruling party can restore the parliamentary majority it enjoyed for 13 years. The contest
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government on Tuesday pulled out of £5.9 million ($9 million) deal to sell prison expertise to Saudi Arabia that had drawn opposition from rights groups and senior politicians. Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said Britain
(AP) – Police have been told they are not allowed to wear a Union flag badge on their uniforms in tribute to colleagues killed on duty because it breaches regulations, it is reported. Officers in the Metropolitan Police were emailed
ROME (AP) — An Italian police aircraft carrying 19 Eritreans took off from Rome’s Ciampino airport Friday, bringing the first refugees to Sweden under the European Union’s (EU) new resettlement program aimed at redistributing asylum-seekers from hard-hit receiving countries. The
