Record Pub Lockdown Leaves Rural Ireland High and Dry

Record Pub Lockdown Leaves Rural Ireland High and Dry

In the pubs of Dunmore in the west of Ireland, the Guinness glasses gather dust and the kegs are stacked...

No Sign of End to Far East Anti-Kremlin Rallies After Nearly Two Months

No Sign of End to Far East Anti-Kremlin Rallies After Nearly Two Months

Weekly rallies against the Kremlin in Russia’s Far East showed no sign of ending after nearly two months, with around...

Belarusian Opposition Activist Kovalkova Leaves Country After Arrest

Belarusian Opposition Activist Kovalkova Leaves Country After Arrest

Belarusian opposition activist Olga Kovalkova arrived in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Saturday, saying she had been forced by authorities...

Erdogan Raises Rhetoric in Greece Standoff in Mediterranean

Erdogan Raises Rhetoric in Greece Standoff in Mediterranean

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face...

Belarusian Journalists Sentenced to 3-Day Jail Terms Amid Crackdown on Post-Election Protests

Belarusian Journalists Sentenced to 3-Day Jail Terms Amid Crackdown on Post-Election Protests

Six Belarusian journalists detained earlier this week while covering an anti-government protest in Minsk were sentenced to three days in...

Masked Men Drag Protesting Belarusian Students Off the Streets

Masked Men Drag Protesting Belarusian Students Off the Streets

Masked security agents dragged students off the streets and bundled them into vans as new protests broke out against Belarusian...

US-Brokered Serbia-Kosovo Deal a ‘Step Forward’ But Challenges Remain

US-Brokered Serbia-Kosovo Deal a ‘Step Forward’ But Challenges Remain

Serbia and Kosovo signed a U.S.-brokered agreement in Washington Friday to normalize economic relations.   Reached after two days of...

European Attitudes Harden as Czech Visit to Taiwan Triggers Chinese Fury

European Attitudes Harden as Czech Visit to Taiwan Triggers Chinese Fury

A bitter dispute between China and the Czech Republic threatens to affect relations between Europe and Beijing. A delegation from...

Facebook Removes Pages of Right-wing Group Patriot Prayer After Portland Unrest

Facebook Removes Pages of Right-wing Group Patriot Prayer After Portland Unrest

Facebook Inc on Friday removed the pages of U.S. right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company...

Belarus Opposition Leader Appeals to UN to Stop Human Rights Abuses in Her Country

Belarus Opposition Leader Appeals to UN to Stop Human Rights Abuses in Her Country

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appealed to the United Nations on Friday to stop human rights abuses in her country,...

NATO: Russia Must Answer Serious Questions About Navalny

NATO: Russia Must Answer Serious Questions About Navalny

After an urgent meeting of NATO ambassadors on Friday to discuss the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the...

China, Czech Republic at Odds After Czech Officials Visit Taiwan

China, Czech Republic at Odds After Czech Officials Visit Taiwan

China is warning of retaliation in response to a visit to Taiwan by a Czech Senate delegation, saying Senate President...

Serbia and Kosovo Agree to Normalize Economic Ties, Trump Announces

Serbia and Kosovo Agree to Normalize Economic Ties, Trump Announces

Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to normalize economic relations, following U.S.-brokered talks that include Serbia moving its Israeli embassy to...

Stoltenberg: Russia Must Answer Serious Questions About Navalny

Stoltenberg: Russia Must Answer Serious Questions About Navalny

After an urgent meeting of NATO ambassadors on Friday to discuss the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the...

Greece Rejects NATO Bid to De-Escalate Tensions With Turkey

Greece Rejects NATO Bid to De-Escalate Tensions With Turkey

Athens Thursday denied NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s earlier statement that Greece and Turkey had agreed to “technical talks” to...

Trump Meets Leaders of Kosovo, Serbia on Friday

Trump Meets Leaders of Kosovo, Serbia on Friday

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in the Oval...

Tensions Between Turkey, Greece Escalate

Tensions Between Turkey, Greece Escalate

Tensions between Turkey and Greece rose in recent days as Turkish naval forces started a major exercise in contested Eastern...

Russia Is Trying to Undermine Confidence in Mail-in Voting, Homeland Security Warns

Russia Is Trying to Undermine Confidence in Mail-in Voting, Homeland Security Warns

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning that Russia is trying to undermine Americans’ confidence in the security...

Turkey: Top IS Militant Suspected of Planning Attack on Hagia Sophia Arrested

Turkey: Top IS Militant Suspected of Planning Attack on Hagia Sophia Arrested

The Turkish police said they have arrested Mahmut Ozden, a major Islamic State (IS) figure in Turkey suspected of planning...

Paris Attacks Trial Unfolds in Shadow of COVID

Paris Attacks Trial Unfolds in Shadow of COVID

As France revisits its deadly 2015 wave of jihadist strikes with a major terrorism trial that opened this week, the...

AP Explains: Novichok That Sickened Navalny a Cold War Relic

AP Explains: Novichok That Sickened Navalny a Cold War Relic

Novichok, a deadly nerve agent that has left Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a coma and nearly killed a...

Top Stars at Venice Film Fest Praise Gender-Neutral Prizes

Top Stars at Venice Film Fest Praise Gender-Neutral Prizes

Two stars at the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, have praised the decision by the Berlin festival...