By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — A driver who injured nearly 80 people when his car rammed into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans celebrating their team's Premier League championship was charged Thursday with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm and six other serious ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With the world's attention fixed on efforts to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, talks are quietly continuing to liberate an Israeli hostage held in Iraq by a different Iranian-backed ...
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse Wednesday in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat, shouting and shoving each other and ripping off pieces of the ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Passengers on flights to Turkey who unbuckle their seat belts, enter an aisle or open overhead compartments before their plane has stopped taxiing upon arrival are eligible for fines under new regulations issued by the country's civil aviation authority.
Under the ...
WROCLAW, Poland (AP) — Fan disorder ahead of a European soccer final between Chelsea and Real Betis in the Polish city of Wroclaw has led to 28 people being arrested, police said Wednesday.
Police used stun grenades and a water cannon against the teams' fans who were disturbing public order ...
By ABBY SEWELL and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The European Union lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria on Wednesday, but slapped new ones on people and groups it says participated in attacks on civilians during a wave of violence in the Syrian coastal region in ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With the world's attention fixed on efforts to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, talks are quietly continuing to liberate an Israeli hostage held in Iraq by a different Iranian-backed ...
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's presidential election has come down to a stark ideological choice: a liberal pro-European mayor versus a staunch nationalist conservative. They are polling so close that the outcome is impossible to predict in the run-off ...
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen received the International Charlemagne Prize, an annual award for contributions to European unity, on Thursday as the 27-nation bloc confronts Russia's war against Ukraine, the Trump ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's central bank cut its key interest rate and sharply lowered its growth outlook for the country's economy in 2025, as it moved Thursday to counter U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff hikes and weak domestic demand ...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia's central bank chief, who is a member of the European Central Bank committee that decides monetary policy for 20 countries, was convicted of bribery and fined 200,000 euros ($225,000) on Thursday.
The verdict against central bank Gov. Peter Kažimír was ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After months of political turmoil, South Koreans head to the polls next week to elect a president to succeed disgraced former leader Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted from office over his ill-fated decision to impose martial law in ...
By SAMY MAGDY and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Mohammed Sinwar, believed to be the head of Hamas' armed wing, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip. There was no ...
By DAVID McHUGH and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Top officials at the European Union's executive commission says they're pushing hard for a trade deal with the Trump administration to avoid a 50% tariff on imported goods. Trump had threatened to impose the ...
By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Three people in Germany were charged with working for one of Russia's intelligence agencies and could have been plotting to kill a man, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday.
The three men arrested in the ...
By SAMY MAGDY and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Mohammed Sinwar, believed to be the head of Hamas' armed wing, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip. There was no ...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's biggest water company was fined almost 123 million pounds ($166 million) on Wednesday for releasing sewage into rivers and streams while paying dividends to its shareholders.
Industry regulator Ofwat said that Thames Water must pay 104.5 million pounds for failing to ...
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A U.S.-backed group approved by Israel to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it has started operations, despite opposition from the U.N. and most humanitarian groups and the unexpected resignation of its executive director.
The ...
By GRANT PECK Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — The illicit trade in methamphetamine and other dangerous drugs is growing by leaps and bounds in Southeast Asia, with record levels of seizures serving as an indicator of the scale, U.N experts on the drug trade said in a new report ...
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a "duty to protect" the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region's summits, especially Everest.
"The ...