Spain, Germany Battle Wildfires Amid Unusual Heat Wave 

Spain, Germany Battle Wildfires Amid Unusual Heat Wave 

Firefighters in Spain and Germany struggled to contain wildfires on Sunday amid an unusual heat wave in Western Europe for...

Irish PM Martin Urges Britain to Resume Talks With EU Over its N.Ireland Law 

Irish PM Martin Urges Britain to Resume Talks With EU Over its N.Ireland Law 

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Sunday a new British law to change part of a Brexit deal to...

French Voters Cast Ballots in Legislative Runoff   

French Voters Cast Ballots in Legislative Runoff   

France voted Sunday in the second-round runoff of legislative elections that saw a new left-wing alliance threatening President Emmanuel Macron’s...

Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants in Aegean 

Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants in Aegean 

More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are...

Despite Ongoing Military Action, Ukrainians Continue to Get Married

Despite Ongoing Military Action, Ukrainians Continue to Get Married

Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, couples there continue to get married. For many, the war itself prompted them to...

Russian Sanctions Hurting Small Italian Fashion Producers

Russian Sanctions Hurting Small Italian Fashion Producers

Fine Italian knitwear packed in boxes addressed to retailers in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kursk sit stacked in a Lombardy...

NATO Warns of Long Ukraine War as Russian Assaults Follow EU Boost for Kyiv

NATO Warns of Long Ukraine War as Russian Assaults Follow EU Boost for Kyiv

The head of NATO said Sunday the war in Ukraine could last years and Ukrainian forces faced intensified Russian assaults...

Czech Senate Leader Vows ‘Never Again’ to Communist Totalitarianism

Czech Senate Leader Vows ‘Never Again’ to Communist Totalitarianism

Czech Senate Leader Milos Vystrcil was little known to the world until he led a Czech parliamentary and business delegation...

Lithuania Says Sanctions on Goods to Kaliningrad Take Effect

Lithuania Says Sanctions on Goods to Kaliningrad Take Effect

Lithuanian authorities said a ban on the transit through their territory to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad of goods that...

Prepare for the Long Haul in Ukraine, UK’s PM Tells Western Allies

Prepare for the Long Haul in Ukraine, UK’s PM Tells Western Allies

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned allies to prepare for a long war in Ukraine, urging sustained support for...

Scholz: G-7 Will Support Ukraine ‘for as Long as Necessary’

Scholz: G-7 Will Support Ukraine ‘for as Long as Necessary’

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the Group of Seven leading democracies will make clear at their upcoming summit that Ukraine...

Brazil Indigenous Expert Was ‘Bigger Target’ in Recent Years

Brazil Indigenous Expert Was ‘Bigger Target’ in Recent Years

Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 350-kilometer (217-mile) trail...

Opposition Rally Demands Early Elections in North Macedonia

Opposition Rally Demands Early Elections in North Macedonia

Thousands of supporters of North Macedonia’s main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE gathered Saturday evening in the center of the capital Skopje...

Third Suspect in Murder of British Journalist Arrested in Brazil

Third Suspect in Murder of British Journalist Arrested in Brazil

A third suspect in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon rainforest was arrested Saturday, Brazil’s federal...

German Far-right Elects New Leaders After Co-Chair Quits

German Far-right Elects New Leaders After Co-Chair Quits

The far-right Alternative for Germany on Saturday elected two prominent figures to lead the party for the next two years,...

Europe Wilts Under Early Heat Wave From Med to North Sea

Europe Wilts Under Early Heat Wave From Med to North Sea

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its...

Former Hotel Housekeeper Aims to Give French Workers a Voice

Former Hotel Housekeeper Aims to Give French Workers a Voice

A former hotel housekeeper who fought for the rights of her coworkers has become a symbol of the recent revival...

UN Weekly Roundup: June 11-17, 2022 

UN Weekly Roundup: June 11-17, 2022 

Editor’s note: Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as...

Russia Frees Medic Who Filmed Mariupol’s Horror 

Russia Frees Medic Who Filmed Mariupol’s Horror 

A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team...

Pioneering Russian Journalist Sells Nobel Peace Medal for Ukraine

Pioneering Russian Journalist Sells Nobel Peace Medal for Ukraine

Russian journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov is auctioning his Nobel medal for Ukrainian refugees, distraught at the eradication...

Attacks, Threats Add to Pressure for Azerbaijan’s Media

Attacks, Threats Add to Pressure for Azerbaijan’s Media

News that police in France arrested two men suspected of traveling to the city of Nantes to kill an Azeri...

UK Government Approves Extradition of Assange; He Plans to Appeal

UK Government Approves Extradition of Assange; He Plans to Appeal

The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying...