A new memorial was unveiled Thursday made up of 104,000 light-emitting stones commemorating Dutch victims of the Holocaust ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi...
January 16, 2020
The prime minister of Lesotho soon will retire, a government minister said Thursday, as investigations continue into the murder of his former wife. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane communicated his intention...
January 16, 2020
A judge in El Salvador asked Interpol to issue a red note detention order for Sigfrido Reyes, the former president of the country's congress, and three other people on corruption...
January 16, 2020
Seven people were killed in a bizarre religious ritual in a jungle community in Panama, in which indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers and tortured, beaten,...
January 16, 2020
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn't wasting time. She announced her intention to stand in France's 2022 presidential elections. “My decision is made,” Le Pen said Thursday as she...
January 16, 2020
Former heroin addict Kevork Tontian met the man he wanted to spend the rest of his life with behind bars. And not even his freedom was enough to keep him...
January 16, 2020
Prosecutors in Panama said Thursday they have found the corpses of six children and one adult in a clandestine burial pit where a religious sect was found torturing indigenous people...
January 16, 2020
An Australian journalist based in Japan says he is a victim of Japanese child custody laws that allow only one parent access to children of broken marriages, a day after...
January 16, 2020
Caught between immigration policy changes championed by two very different administrations, a record number of Cubans are now fighting deportation, as they try to gain asylum in the United States....
January 16, 2020
The Antonetti family sat in the shade of a tree eating orange slices while contemplating the long day ahead of them in a dusty parking lot in southern Puerto Rico....
January 16, 2020
Israeli authorities demolished homes in Palestinian areas of east Jerusalem at a significantly higher rate in 2019 than the previous year, according to an Israeli advocacy group. In a new...
January 16, 2020
A small plane crashed at an airfield near Berlin on Thursday, killing two people, emergency services said. Police said the ultralight plane crashed as it was landing at the Strausberg...
January 16, 2020
Representatives of five nations that lost citizens when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner last week met Thursday in London to press Tehran to conduct a full and open investigation...
January 16, 2020
An island in Bangladesh that was regularly submerged during monsoon seasons is ready to house 100,000 Rohingya refugees, but no date has been announced to begin relocating people from crowded...
January 16, 2020
A court in Bangladesh's capital issued arrest warrants on Thursday for a prominent editor and nine other newspaper employees in a case involving the death of a teenager who was...
January 16, 2020
A Spanish court sentenced a former bank president to 18 months in prison on Thursday after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle a painting by Pablo Picasso that was...
January 16, 2020
Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post. The announcement Thursday...
January 16, 2020
Poland and Lithuania are working together to defend themselves against a Russian historical offensive that seeks to minimize Soviet responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, their foreign ministers...
January 16, 2020
Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post. The announcement Thursday...
January 16, 2020
A bus and a truck collided on a major road in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, killing six people and injuring 19, police said. The Abu Dhabi police released surveillance footage...
January 16, 2020
Turkish airstrikes inside Iraq targeting members of an outlawed Kurdish rebel group have killed at least four minority Yazidi fighters allied with the rebels, an Iraqi army official said Thursday....
January 16, 2020
European legal experts say a proposed law in Poland that gives politicians the authority to fire or fine judges would further undermine judicial independence in the country and violates European...
January 16, 2020
An Israeli court heard a case Thursday calling for restrictions to be slapped on NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes surveillance software that is said to have been used...
January 16, 2020
German researchers said Thursday they have developed the first diagnostic test for a new virus that has emerged in central China. The virus was first detected in the Chinese city...
January 16, 2020
Poland and Lithuania are working together to defend themselves against a Russian historical offensive that seeks to minimize Soviet responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, their foreign ministers...
January 16, 2020
Prince Harry went back to work Thursday, taking on his first royal duties since a pivotal summit with Queen Elizabeth II on his future role in the royal family. Harry...
January 16, 2020
India on Thursday asked China to avoid raising the Kashmir dispute at the United Nations Security Council, insisting it is a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan. The government issued...
January 16, 2020
In Syria's civil war, girls as young as nine have been raped and forced into sexual slavery. Boys have been tortured, forced into military training and ordered to carry out...
January 16, 2020
Fears that the Trump administration will ban all flights to Cuba have sparked a spike in demand for tickets to the island, according to employees of travel agencies in Miami....
January 16, 2020
Iran's president said Thursday that there is “no limit” to the country's enrichment of uranium following its decision to abandon its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal in response to...
January 16, 2020
Yemeni separatists and forces loyal to the country's U.N.-recognized government whose deadly infighting erupted last summer in the war-torn Arab country are pulling back from a key southern city, military...
January 16, 2020
A roadside bomb struck a car with Afghan government employees in southern Zabul province on Thursday, killing the driver and four passengers, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for...
January 16, 2020
Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric will undergo a surgery for a fractured bone following an accident in his home, his office said Thursday. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who turns 90...
January 16, 2020
The U.S. ambassador to South Korea said Thursday he was surprised and pleased that North Korea did not give the U.S. an unwelcome “Christmas gift” because of stalled nuclear disarmament...
January 16, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin's sudden announcement of constitutional changes that prompted the prime minister's departure won't affect increasingly close ties between Beijing and Moscow, China said Thursday. Under Putin and...
January 16, 2020
A gay rights activist in Uganda says criticism of a local imam who unknowingly married a man in a Muslim ceremony highlights intolerance in the East African country. The imam,...
January 16, 2020
The Taliban have given the U.S. envoy a document outlining their offer for a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan that would last between seven and 10 days, Taliban officials familiar with...
January 16, 2020
German lawmakers are considering whether to tackle a shortage of donor organs with a reform that would make most people potential donors unless they object. In a debate on an...
January 16, 2020
Germany's foreign minister was flying to Libya on Thursday to meet one of the country's rival leaders, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, in a bid to push forward troubled efforts to secure...
January 16, 2020
Religious-nationalist parties in Israel joined forces late Wednesday ahead of the country's unprecedented third straight election in one year. The parties came together after weeks of jockeying and shut out...
