International News

German security officials are warning far-right groups not to carry out vigilante patrols along the country’s eastern border with Poland, amid a rise in the number of migrants crossing the frontier illegally in recent weeks

British lawmakers are grilling Facebook and other tech giants over how they handle online safety as European efforts to regulate social media companies gain momentum

South Korea's spy agency has told lawmakers that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has recently lost about 20 kilograms (44 pounds), but remains healthy and is trying to boost public loyalty to him amid worsening economic problems

Police in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos have made one of Asia’s biggest-ever drug busts, seizing more than 55.6 million methamphetamine pills in a single raid

Creatures from lemurs to pythons feasted on tasty snacks to get into the Halloween spirit at the Chester Zoo.

The Vatican has abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis

Poland's justice minister says the European Union member should not pay any of the total $1.8 million daily fines the EU's top court has imposed for Warsaw's ignoring its injunctions regarding changes to the judiciary and a lignite mine

A Dutch zoo celebrated the arrival of Stark, a healthy rhinoceros calf named after a retiring mechanic at the zoo.

An independent Dutch government advisory panel says the government must urgently take more action to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases

Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel is due in Greece Thursday evening for a two-day visit to the country whose financial crisis marked much of her tenure and Germany’s relationship with Europe

The U.N.‘s top human rights official and U.S. President Joe Biden’s envoy to this year’s climate summit called Thursday for countries to step up the fight against global warming

Poland’s parliament is preparing to give a first reading to proposed legislation dubbed “Stop LGBT,” which aims to prohibit the “promotion of homosexuality” and would ban gay pride parades

Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported third-quarter profit above analyst expectations on increasing sales of 5G technology and trimmed costs

An investigation by The Associated Press has found that the Myanmar military has been torturing detainees across the country in a methodical and systemic way since its takeover of the government in February

A 19-year-old British man obsessed with demons has been sentenced to serve at least 35 years in prison for murdering two sisters, in the belief that the killings would help him win a lottery jackpot

A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended criminal indictments for President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

South Korea's Intelligence denies rumors about a North Korean leader double.

A company in the United Arab Emirates hopes to sell its electric pod transit system that it now tests in Sharjah

An Ethiopian government spokesman says a new airstrike has hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region following several days of such strikes last week, and a Tigray spokesman asserts that six people have been killed, as the year-long war intensifies

A top Spanish court has given a 2-year prison term to the former treasurer of Spain’s powerful conservative party for using a slush fund to pay for the renovation of the party’s headquarters in Madrid

A Sudanese military official says Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan has fired at least six ambassadors, including the country’s envoys to the U.S., the European Union and France

The U.K. government vowed to retaliate if Paris goes ahead with the move.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison have had their first conversation since Australia pulled out of a multibillion-dollar submarine deal with France

For centuries, Lake Tuz in central Turkey has hosted huge colonies of flamingos that migrate and breed there when the weather is warm

European Central Bank leaves pandemic stimulus running unchanged even as consumer prices spike

The European Union's top court has fined Poland $1.2 million a day to prevent what it called “serious and irreparable harm” to the EU’s legal order and values

China has defended a new border law following criticism by India that it might disrupt the resolution of a 17-month-old standoff over disputed territory that has led to violent clashes

Serbian officials have praised the “steel friendship” with China during talks with China’s foreign minister

A Danish appeals court has increased a sentence to two brothers by a year, giving them 15 years in prison each for the murder of a biracial man on a Danish island in June 2020

Portugal’s president says the ballot box is the best way of breaking a political stalemate after the country's parliament threw out the government’s proposed state budget for next year

European gas prices have dropped after Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the country’s major natural gas company to pump more gas into EU storages

An investigation by The Associated Press has found that the Myanmar military has been torturing detainees across the country in a methodical and systemic way since its takeover of the government in February

Albanian prosecutors have brought charges against a former defense minister over a massive blast at a munitions disposal factory in 2008 that killed 26 people

Taiwan’s defense minister says the island must defend itself and not depend entirely on others for help if China were to launch an attack, even as Taiwan’s president says she has faith the U.S. would defend it

The president of Hong Kong’s legislature says it has become more efficient with no opposition members, after all pro-democracy lawmakers resigned late last year to protest the ouster of four colleagues for not demonstrating sufficient loyalty to Beijing

Spain's National Statistics Institute says consumer prices increased this month by the country's highest rate in 29 years as a result of soaring electricity costs

Sony has reported its profit fell 54% in the last quarter, mainly due to a one-time tax-related gain that inflated last year’s number

The European Central Bank is facing the highest inflation in more than a decade and slowing business activity as it decides on monetary policy for the 19 countries using the euro

Volkswagen has lowered its forecast for deliveries to customers and reported a decrease in operating profits for the third quarter

An Associated Press investigation has found that Myanmar's military has tortured detainees held across the country in a methodical and systemic way since it took over the government in February

India has test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile.

Australia has ruled out promising to cut methane emissions by 30% by the end of the decade in a stance that will add to criticism the country is a laggard in addressing climate change

The U.S. is scheduled to ask Britain’s High Court to overturn a judge’s ruling.

Relatives and activists say Sudanese security forces have detained three prominent pro-democracy figures overnight

Honduras, one of the last countries in Central America to receive COVID-19 vaccine, has designated a portion of its stockpiles for citizens of neighboring Nicaragua as fewer Hondurans line up to be vaccinated

France says it will bar British fishing boats from some French ports starting next week if no deal is reached with the U.K. in a dispute over fishing licenses for French boats

A young Saudi man was released from prison after spending nearly a decade behind bars

A growing migrant caravan has filled the town square here after knocking off another 13 miles of its trek across southern Mexico

The Vatican says Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help reconciliation efforts with Indigenous peoples following shocking revelations of the Catholic church's role in the abuse and deaths of thousands of native children

Youri Mevs is not starving, not struggling for survival -- in so many ways, she is unlike the migrants who are fleeing Haiti’s misery