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Canada’s Trudeau Apologizes After Nazi Veteran Honored in Parliament

Canada’s Trudeau Apologizes After Nazi Veteran Honored in Parliament

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday expressed “unreserved apologies” on behalf of all of Canada after a 98-year-old veteran...

Spain Turns to Tractors to Tackle Migrant Unemployment, Farm Labor Shortage

Spain Turns to Tractors to Tackle Migrant Unemployment, Farm Labor Shortage

Spain’s agricultural sector is threatened by an aging population and a shortage of farm labor. Now a program in Catalonia...

Iran Says It Successfully Launched Imaging Satellite Amid Tensions With West

Iran Says It Successfully Launched Imaging Satellite Amid Tensions With West

Iran claimed on Wednesday it successfully launched an imaging satellite into space, a move that could further ratchet up tensions...

DRC Company Turns Plastic Waste from Lake Kivu Into Building Materials

DRC Company Turns Plastic Waste from Lake Kivu Into Building Materials

In Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, residents say plastic and other waste is increasingly polluting Lake...

Slovakia’s Election Threatens Western Unity on Ukraine

Slovakia’s Election Threatens Western Unity on Ukraine

Robert Fico — whose party appears tied for the lead in Slovakia’s parliamentary election on Saturday — says he would...

Russia Accuses US, Britain of Helping Ukraine in Crimea Missile Attack

Russia Accuses US, Britain of Helping Ukraine in Crimea Missile Attack

Russia Wednesday accused the United States and Britain of helping Ukraine carry out an attack last week against the headquarters...

French Ambassador to Niger Leaves as Relations Nosedive After Coup

French Ambassador to Niger Leaves as Relations Nosedive After Coup

France’s ambassador to Niger left the country early on Wednesday morning, around one month after the military government ordered his...

6 Young Climate Activists Take on 32 European Nations

6 Young Climate Activists Take on 32 European Nations

Six young people from Portugal will argue that governments across Europe aren’t doing enough to protect people from the harms...

US, Germany Call for Observers in Nagorno-Karabakh

US, Germany Call for Observers in Nagorno-Karabakh

The United States and Germany added to calls for international observers to be allowed into the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as Azerbaijan...

US Ramps Up Diplomacy, Humanitarian Aid for Nagorno-Karabakh’s Displaced

US Ramps Up Diplomacy, Humanitarian Aid for Nagorno-Karabakh’s Displaced

The United States government ramped up its diplomatic efforts and humanitarian assistance for thousands of ethnic Armenians fleeing the Nagorno-Karabakh...

Spain Charges Pop Singer Shakira With Tax Evasion for Second Time

Spain Charges Pop Singer Shakira With Tax Evasion for Second Time

Spanish prosecutors have charged pop star Shakira with failing to pay $7.1 million in tax on her 2018 income, authorities...

Ukrainian Female Soldiers Get First Official Women’s Uniforms

Ukrainian Female Soldiers Get First Official Women’s Uniforms

Forty-two thousand women serve in the Ukrainian military, and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense recently officially approved a female uniform....

Russian Court Rejects Navalny’s Appeal Against 19-Year Prison Term

Russian Court Rejects Navalny’s Appeal Against 19-Year Prison Term

A Russian court on Tuesday rejected Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny’s appeal against a decision to imprison him on extremism charges...

Ukrainian Captain Found Guilty in Hungary for 2019 Boat Collision That Killed at Least 27

Ukrainian Captain Found Guilty in Hungary for 2019 Boat Collision That Killed at Least 27

The captain of a river cruise boat that collided with another vessel in Hungary’s capital in 2019, killing at least...

At Least 20 Dead in Gas Station Explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh

At Least 20 Dead in Gas Station Explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh

At least 20 people were killed and nearly 300 others injured by an explosion at a crowded gas station in...

Russia Hits Ukrainian Port in Drone Attack

Russia Hits Ukrainian Port in Drone Attack

Ukraine said Tuesday that Russian forces used 38 drones to attack the country overnight, and that some made it past...

French Trial Begins in Police Couple Killings Linked to Extremists

French Trial Begins in Police Couple Killings Linked to Extremists

It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing:...

What is Behind Renewed Tensions Between Serbia and Kosovo?

What is Behind Renewed Tensions Between Serbia and Kosovo?

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an...

EU Trade Chief Warns Businesses Questioning Future in China

EU Trade Chief Warns Businesses Questioning Future in China

The EU’s trade chief told Beijing Monday that tough security laws and a more “politicized” business environment have left European...

Vietnam Reportedly Seeking Military Aid From Both Moscow and Washington

Vietnam Reportedly Seeking Military Aid From Both Moscow and Washington

Military analysts say Vietnam is desperate for a new generation of powerful fighter jets and other arms, and recent news...

Burkina Faso Junta Suspends French Magazine Over ‘Untruthful’ Articles

Burkina Faso Junta Suspends French Magazine Over ‘Untruthful’ Articles

Burkina Faso’s military junta on Monday suspended the French news magazine Jeune Afrique for publishing “untruthful” articles that reported tension...

UN Investigators Find Growing Evidence of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine

UN Investigators Find Growing Evidence of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine

A new report by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine documents a growing body of evidence of war crimes...