RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — India has demanded answers from Saudi Arabia after a maid there reportedly had her hand chopped off while trying to escape being harassed by her employer. The Twitter account of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma
LONDON (AP) — London’s Royal Free Hospital says a nurse who recovered from Ebola last year is being treated for an unusual late complication of the infection. A military aircraft flew Pauline Cafferkey from her home in Scotland to London
The London Film Festival opened Wednesday with “Suffragette“, the story of Britain’s feminist movement that fought for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century. “This is such an important movie,” said Meryl Streep, one of the film’s stars, at
BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa reports that authorities have arrested three terror suspects in the west of the country. It reported Wednesday that the arrests took place in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It quoted a spokeswoman for
PARIS (AP) — A new French government ad campaign features mourning families to discourage young people from joining extremists in Syria — an attempt at a counter-narrative against an Islamic State publicity machine that churns out huge amounts of propaganda.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany marks a quarter-century as a reunited nation on Saturday, with two leaders from the formerly communist east heading a country that increasingly asserts itself as Europe’s political heavyweight — and now faces a new challenge in
SYDNEY (AP) – An Iranian teenager fatally shot a civilian member of Sydney’s police force in a killing that authorities believe is linked to terrorism, officials said Saturday. The 15-year-old, who is of Iraqi-Kurdish background and was born in Iran, shot
PARIS (AP) — Two European Uber executives are facing the possibility of prison in a French trial hinging on the ride-hailing service’s lowest-cost service. While that service has already been banned in France, the trial that started Wednesday reflects larger
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Austria’s foreign minister said Monday that European nations are increasingly contemplating some role for the Syrian regime at negotiations to end the war in that country and suggested a compromise that could include President Bashar Assad
An international press freedom group chastises the European Union for being too lenient in its treatment of media abuses in member state Hungary and accuses it of economic bias in defending the rights of journalists. The New York-based Committee to
AP – Austria’s populist, right-of-centre Freedom Party has doubled its share of the vote in a regional election amid concern about the influx of refugees in recent months. Preliminary results put the Freedom Party in second place, with 30.9 percent
Iran on Saturday vowed to take international legal action against Saudi Arabia’s rulers over the crush of Muslim pilgrims at this year’s hajj
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels have released six foreign hostages, including two Americans, and flown them to the Gulf country of Oman, which helped negotiate their release, officials said Sunday.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza party battered opponents in a snap general election as Greeks gave the 41-year-old leader a second chance to deal with the country’s staggering debt and carry out major reforms aimed at modernizing
ATHENS, Greece — The official projection of final results in Greece’s early election shows the left-wing Syriza party of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras winning with 35.5 percent, but falling short of enough parliamentary seats to form a government on
TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) – European Union lawmakers have backed an EU plan to distribute 120,000 migrants among member countries in a fast-track measure aimed at relieving migration pressure on Greece, Italy and Hungary. The move in the European Parliament on
LONDON (AP) — Elton John says Vladimir Putin has phoned him, after the musician requested a meeting to discuss Russia’s anti-gay environment. On Instagram, the Elton John said “thank-you to President Vladimir Putin for reaching out and speaking via telephone
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been ousted from his position by an internal government challenge and the party’s former leader has been elected to replace him. Abbott lost a leadership ballot by members of his
Germany’s vice chancellor says the country can expect 1 million migrants this year, raising the previous estimate by 200,000. Sigmar Gabriel said in a letter to members of his Social Democratic Party that “everything points the fact that we won’t
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands held opposing rallies Saturday in several Polish cities, with radical right-wingers marching against hosting asylum seekers and others in smaller numbers supporting helping those in need. Some 10,000 nationalists and right-wingers marched in the rain
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Islamic State group is extending its reach in Saudi Arabia, expanding the scope of its attacks and drawing in new recruits with its radical ideology. Its determination to bring down the U.S.-allied royal family has raised concerns it could threaten the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage later this month.
MOSCOW (AP) — Iran has granted permission for Russian planes to fly over its territory en route to Syria, Russian news agencies said Wednesday, a bypass needed after Bulgaria refused overflights amid signs of a Russian military buildup in Syria that has concerned the U.S. and NATO.
Two German newspapers have published a special supplement in Arabic, welcoming refugees and giving them advice on where to go for services. The top-selling Bild newspaper and Berlin’s BZ, both produced by the same publisher, put out the four-page insert
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Foreign Islamic militants have been able to secure Pakistani national identity cards for years in exchange for bribes as low as $100, giving them vastly greater freedom to operate, according to a report by Pakistan’s top intelligence agency obtained by The Associated Press.
Guatemala’s Congress lifted President Otto Perez Molina’s immunity of office on Tuesday, opening him up to possible prosecution in a widening customs corruption scandal that has rocked his administration and the country’s political system.
