Extended drought parches Sicily
CAMMARATA, Italy — On a scorching July afternoon, a municipal water truck rolls up in a cloud of dust on Liborio...
Albanians vote for new mayor of ethnic Greek town
QEPARO, Albania — Albanians in the southwestern town of Himara are to vote Sunday for a new mayor after their previous...
Putin vows support to North Korea after devastating floods
Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un over devastating floods that caused...
Al-Qaida affiliate says it has 2 Russian hostages in Niger, shows video
DAKAR, Senegal — Two men claiming to be Russian nationals and saying they were taken captive in Niger by militants linked...
Former Ukrainian tennis star puts sports training to use on front lines
Ukrainian tennis player Alex Dolgopolov was once ranked 13th in the world. But shortly after Russia invaded his homeland in...
Ukrainian military says it attacked Russian airfield, oil depots
KYIV, UKRAINE — Ukraine’s military said on Saturday it had attacked Russia’s Morozovsk airfield and several oil depots and fuel storage...
France shifts Western Sahara stance, seeking closer ties with Morocco
RABAT, Morocco — France has thrown its support behind Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position...
China’s proposal to create a cyber ID system faces criticism
Taipei, Taiwan — Concern is rising among China’s more than 1 billion internet users over a government proposal portrayed as a...
Protests turn violent as UK unrest spreads after children’s killings
london — Protesters attacked police and started fires in the northeast English city of Sunderland on Friday as violence spread to...
Activist freed in prisoner swap feared dying in Russian prison
washington — American permanent resident Vladimir Kara-Murza told reporters on Friday he had expected to die in a Russian prison. The...
French judo icon Teddy Riner wins 3rd individual Olympic gold
PARIS — The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved...
UK police brace for more far-right protests
LONDON — Several suspects arrested in violent protests that erupted after the fatal stabbing of three children in northwest England were...
Russian drone hits bus in Kharkiv region, injuring six, official says
KYIV — A Russian drone hit a bus in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region early on Friday, injuring six construction workers, including...
Turkey blocks access to Instagram, gives no reason
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s communications authority blocked access to the social media platform Instagram on Friday, the latest instance of a...
Historic prisoner swap frees Americans imprisoned in Russia
Americans Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and others are freed from Russian prisons in a deal involving 16 political...
Putin welcomes Russians freed in prisoner swap as heroes
moscow — President Vladimir Putin gave Russian nationals freed in a historic prisoner exchange with the West a hero’s welcome on...
