The EU beat COVID and Russian energy coercion. Now it must learn to live without US security help
After President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine three years ago and hiked energy prices to weaken Western ...
Actor Gene Hackman, prolific Oscar winner, found dead at home at 95 years old
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to ...
Turkish politicians meet jailed Kurdish militant leader ahead of widely anticipated call for peace
ISTANBUL (AP) — Senior officials from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party were set to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the ...
Austria is getting a new coalition government without far-right election winner
Three parties announced Thursday that they have reached a deal to form a new centrist Austrian government, five months after ...
2 college students were publicly caned for having gay sex in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh
Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them ...
A school helps migrants in Mauritania. Is it enough to keep them from leaving for Europe?
The school for children of migrants and refugees, set up in 2018 as an early response to the growing need, is the kind of ...
Middle East latest: Hamas says it is ready to negotiate the next phase of the ceasefire in Gaza
Hamas said Thursday it was ready to negotiate the the next phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, after a swap in which it ...
Republican lawmakers look for ways to weaken state judges
William Raftery, an analyst at the National Center for State Courts, said the battle between branches of state government for ...
France joining the U.S. in seeking access to Ukraine's minerals; says it's in talks
He didn't specify exactly which minerals France is seeking. Ukraine has been offering to supply the U.S. with rare earth elements that are critical for various technologies, including lithium for ...
EU pushes back against Trump tariff threats and his caustic comments that bloc is out to get the US
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive branch said Thursday that the 27-nation bloc wasn't out to undermine the United States, as U.S. President Donald Trump put it, but instead was the ...
The number of babies born in South Korea last year rebounded for first time in nearly a decade
South Korea’s statistics agency said Wednesday that 238,300 babies were born last year, an increase of 8,300 from a year earlier. It said the country’s fertility rate — the average number of babies ...
84 Indonesians taken out of scam centers in Myanmar are set to go home
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar arrived at the Thai border city of Mae Sot earlier on Thursday in an ongoing repatriation effort that follows a ...