LONDON (AP) — Three men arrested in an investigation into right-wing extremism were charged Tuesday in a London court with preparing to commit a terrorist act, authorities said.
They were arrested on Feb. 21, Counter Terrorism Policing North East said.
Prosecutors said the men had joined ...
ROME (AP) — Italy's foreign minister was on hand Tuesday for the arrival in Rome of an Italian family of three just hours after their release from two years of captivity in the African nation of Mali.
The family, identified as Rocco Langone, his wife Maria Caivano and an adult son, Giovanni ...
By SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weekslong pause in the war, now in its fifth month.
U.S. President Joe Biden says a deal ...
By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP) — Four Central European countries are deeply divided over the Russian war against Ukraine and how to resolve the conflict, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia said on Tuesday.
The four post-communist ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — NATO member Greece said Tuesday it wants to help traditional ally Armenia shift alliances westward, arguing that improved ties with the European Union would boost stability in the troubled Caucasus region.
Armenia, which has close military and trade ties with Russia, is ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea have been refusing to see patients and attend surgeries since they walked off the job Feb. 20 in response to the government's push to recruit more medical students.
As of ...
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand announced Tuesday they will indict a former national police chief on charges of impeding legal action against an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who was accused of killing a Bangkok police officer in ...
BERLIN (AP) — A German far-right extremist already serving a life sentence following an attempt to attack a synagogue in 2019 was convicted Tuesday of hostage-taking for his actions in a jailbreak attempt.
Stephan Balliet, 32, was sentenced to seven years in prison, German news agency dpa ...
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped concrete cell, next to a fold-up cot, stool, sink and latrine.
That moment of dark humor came ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council's members demanded Monday that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weekslong lunar night, Japan's space agency said Monday.
JAXA called the signal, received late Sunday night, a "miracle" because the ...
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week in the Caribbean by three escaped prisoners were presumed dead and likely were thrown into the ocean, police said Monday.
The accounts by police in Grenada and in St. Vincent ...
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated press
GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says combatants in places such as Congo, Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine and Sudan are turning a "blind eye" to international law as he made a plea for greater respect for human rights and peace around the ...
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece Monday formally agreed to participate in and lead a European Union maritime security operation in the Red Sea to protect commercial shipping from attacks by Houthi militants in Yemen.
A security committee headed by Prime ...
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press
ROGACA, Serbia (AP) — When Elena Koposova signed an open letter against Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she didn't expect a backlash in her newly adopted home state of Serbia.
After all, Serbia is formally seeking to join the ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president again lashed out at social media platform YouTube on Monday for taking down part of his daily news briefing where he revealed a reporter's phone number.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the platform in Mexico "has been taken over by ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops have pulled out of a village in the east of the country, an army spokesman said Monday, as Russian forces display advantages in manpower and ammunition on the battlefield at the start of the war 's third year.
The ...
By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The U.S. government on Monday reiterated its support to help restore peace and calm to Haiti, saying it will provide money, equipment and logistical support to a multinational force whose deployment remains uncertain.
Linda ...
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's parliament on Monday elected a new president after its previous head of state resigned in a scandal over a pardon she granted to an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case.
Lawmakers in a secret vote approved the ...
By BASSEM MROUE and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military said its air force on Monday struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group "deep inside Lebanon," as Lebanese officials said targets were hit near the northeastern city of Baalbek. At least two ...