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3 People Gored on First Day of Spanish Bull-Running Festival

3 People Gored on First Day of Spanish Bull-Running Festival

Three people were gored and a further two people suffered head trauma during the first day of Spain’s best-known bull-running...

Greeks Vote as Leftist Syriza Days in Power Seem Numbered

Greeks Vote as Leftist Syriza Days in Power Seem Numbered

Greeks vote on Sunday in a snap election that polls say will bring opposition conservatives to power, ending four years...

Report: UK Interior Minister to Back Johnson for PM

Report: UK Interior Minister to Back Johnson for PM

British Interior Minister Sajid Javid will soon formally endorse Boris Johnson to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and the country’s next prime minister,...

Merkel Seeks to Reassure Western Balkans On EU, Stresses ‘Strategic Interest’

Merkel Seeks to Reassure Western Balkans On EU, Stresses ‘Strategic Interest’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to reassure Western Balkan nations that support for their membership in the European Union remains...

Russia Lays to Rest Seamen Killed in Sub Fire

Russia Lays to Rest Seamen Killed in Sub Fire

The 14 Russian naval officers who died in a military nuclear-powered submarine earlier this week were buried Saturday amid tight...

UK-flagged Tanker Reported ‘Safe and Well’ After Stop in Gulf

UK-flagged Tanker Reported ‘Safe and Well’ After Stop in Gulf

UK-flagged supertanker Pacific Voyager which halted in the Gulf on Saturday is “safe and well,” a British official told Reuters,...

From Libya to Texas, Tragedies Illustrate Plight of Migrants

From Libya to Texas, Tragedies Illustrate Plight of Migrants

They are trapped in squalid detention centers on Libya’s front lines. They wash up on the banks of the Rio...

Electric Ice Cream Van Fights Air Pollution

Electric Ice Cream Van Fights Air Pollution

As governments around the world try to tackle air pollution problems, some cities are looking to ban fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. But...

Selling Leftovers to Help Prevent Food Waste

Selling Leftovers to Help Prevent Food Waste

Leftovers. It’s what’s for dinner. In Germany that saying does not just apply to people who cook too much at...

Turkey Fires Central Bank Governor 

Turkey Fires Central Bank Governor 

Turkey fired its central bank governor Saturday and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on...

British Seek Clues to Iranian Sanction Busting From Crew of Seized Tanker

British Seek Clues to Iranian Sanction Busting From Crew of Seized Tanker

British police on Friday were questioning the crew of an Iranian supertanker that was seized at 4 a.m. Thursday in...

TIM to Extend 5G Services to 6 More Italian Cities by Year-end

TIM to Extend 5G Services to 6 More Italian Cities by Year-end

Italy’s biggest phone company, Telecom Italia (TIM), plans to extend 5G services to six more Italian cities as well as...

France Calls on G-7 to Double Girls’ Education Funding in Africa’s Sahel

France Calls on G-7 to Double Girls’ Education Funding in Africa’s Sahel

PARIS — France wants the world’s leading industrial economies to double funding for girls’ education in the Sahel at a...

Merkel, May at Summit on Western Balkans’ EU Aspirations

Merkel, May at Summit on Western Balkans’ EU Aspirations

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May have joined a high-level meeting in Poland that seeks to...

NATO: No Breakthroughs in INF Talks With Russia

NATO: No Breakthroughs in INF Talks With Russia

NATO and Russia did not make any breakthroughs on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in talks at the alliance...

UN Envoy for Syria Urges Russia to Help Stabilize Idlib

UN Envoy for Syria Urges Russia to Help Stabilize Idlib

The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria on Friday urged Russia to help stabilize the violence in northwestern Idlib province and...

Turkey: 2 Killed in Explosion Near Border with Syria

Turkey: 2 Killed in Explosion Near Border with Syria

An explosion inside a vehicle near Turkey’s border with Syria on Friday has left two people dead and two others...

Greece Wildfires Prompt Evacuation of 4 More Villages

Greece Wildfires Prompt Evacuation of 4 More Villages

Two new brush fires broke out overnight on the Greek island of Evia, forcing the evacuation of four villages, authorities...

German Fire Exercise Aims to Prevent Notre Dame Tragedy

German Fire Exercise Aims to Prevent Notre Dame Tragedy

A single cigarette may have started the April fire that destroyed much of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.  Flames tore...

Western Balkan Nations Press EU Aspirations at Poland Summit

Western Balkan Nations Press EU Aspirations at Poland Summit

Government ministers from some European Union nations sought Thursday to reassure their partners in the Western Balkans during a meeting...

Eva Mozes Kor, Holocaust Survivor and Activist, Dies at 85

Eva Mozes Kor, Holocaust Survivor and Activist, Dies at 85

Eva Mozes Kor, a Romanian Holocaust survivor who spent four decades advocating forgiveness, has died at age 85 — during...

France to Fast-Track Return of Artifacts from Benin

France to Fast-Track Return of Artifacts from Benin

Returning African artifacts taken by explorers and colonizers remains a hot-button issue in Europe-Africa relations — one that gained traction...