ROME – The man tapped by Silvio Berlusconi as his choice for Italy's next premier has met with laid off Italian union workers and vowed to pull strings to intervene in the politically clamorous closure of their Turin refrigerator factory.…
PARIS – Paris Fashion Week is continuing in the French capital. Themes from the natural world, to the Roaring Twenties to the era of Glam Rock have been channeled on Day 2 of the shows. Here are some of the…
ATHENS, Greece – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has appointed deputy premier Yannis Dragasakis as the country's economy and development minister in a limited cabinet reshuffle triggered by a rent allowance scandal. In a statement Wednesday, the government said Dragasakis will…
BERLIN – German officials have been left speechless by Chancellor Angela Merkel's comment that there are "no-go areas" in the country. The notion there are places in Germany outsiders — including police — can't visit has previously been dismissed by…
Sherine Abdel-Wahab was sentenced to six months in prison for a joke she made suggesting the Nile River was polluted. (YouTube) Sherine Abdel-Wahab, one of Egypt’s most famous singers and the star of the Arabic version of “The Voice,” was…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called on Kosovo to ratify a border demarcation deal with Montenegro and improve ties with Serbia. Juncker continued his Balkan tour in Kosovo on Wednesday, the first visit by an EU…
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Authorities say military police have arrested the wife of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo as part of a corruption case. Police arrived at the Lobo home in six vehicles and searched the residence before leaving with former…
PARIS – A man suspected of sexually assaulting dozens of women over more than 20 years has been arrested in northern France. A prosecutor in Valenciennes, some 210 kilometers (130.5 miles) north of Paris, said that the suspect, whose identity…
LAGOS, Nigeria – The office of Nigeria's president says police and civil defense forces are ordered to defend all schools in "liberated areas" of the northeast to avoid further attacks on schools by Boko Haram extremists. Many in Africa's most…
DAKAR, Senegal – The United Nations children's agency says one of its workers and five other education workers have been killed in an attack in Central African Republic. UNICEF's West and Central Africa Regional Director Marie-Pierre Poirier says the team…
WARSAW, Poland – Polish media are reporting that Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's conservative ruling party, has been reprimanded by a parliamentary ethics committee. The development Wednesday comes in response to an emotional outburst Kaczynski made in parliament last…
WARSAW, Poland – The head of a Polish Himalaya climbers' team says that a prominent member, Denis Urubko, who recently rescued a French climber, has split up with the team and left its base camp in Pakistan. The team is…
PRAGUE – Czech authorities have detained a man suspected of carrying out two attacks on trains while blaming them on Islamic militants. State prosecutor Martin Bily said Wednesday that the man is suspected of cutting down two trees that fell…
GENEVA – A Swiss government spokesman says Pope Francis will visit Geneva in June. Federal Council spokesman Andre Simonazzi says details of the June 21 visit are being worked out, adding only that President Alain Berset would welcome Francis. St.…
BRUSSELS – The European Union is demanding that Russia, Iran and Turkey take responsibility for ensuring that the fighting stops in Syria and that a real 30-day halt in fighting is respected. In a letter to the countries' foreign ministers,…
Aaron Pajich, right, was strangled and stabbed to death by Jemma Lilley, left, and Trudi Lenon in 2016. (Supreme Court of Western Australia/Western Australia Police) A British woman who had committing murder on her "bucket list" and had an "obsession"…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The Latest on the killing of a Slovak investigative journalist (all times local): 2:40 p.m. Slovakia's culture minister has announced his resignation following the slaying of an investigative journalist and his girlfriend. Marek Madaric, a member of…
LONDON – The Latest on the wintry weather conditions across Europe (all times local): 1 p.m. Serbia and Slovenia have reported their first cold-related deaths in a snap of freezing weather that has gripped much of Europe this week. Slovenia's…
LONDON – The Latest on Brexit negotiations (all times local): 12:45 p.m. Prime Minister Theresa May says a European Union proposal for the Irish border after Brexit would "undermine the constitutional integrity of the U.K." and is unacceptable to Britain.…
CAIRO – Egypt's state-run news agency says a train collision in coastal Beheira province has left 10 people dead and 15 others injured. Wednesday's report by the MENA news agency quotes the spokesman of the Health Ministry as saying the…
CAIRO – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has reshuffled his military command, naming a new chief of staff, as well as leaders of the ground, naval and air forces. His decree, carried by the state-run SUNA news agency late Tuesday, says…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Representatives for thousands of Ethiopian Jews say they will stage a mass hunger strike if Israel eliminates funding to allow them to join their families in that country. Hundreds gathered at a synagogue in Ethiopia's capital…
HELSINKI – Finnish prosecutors say a Moroccan asylum seeker has been charged with two terror-related murders and an attempt to murder eight others during a stabbing attack in the south west of the country last year. The state prosecutor's office…
JERUSALEM – The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says it's holding a special fund-raising conference next month in Rome to make up for a cut in funding by the Trump administration. UNRWA's spokesman Chris Gunness said on Wednesday that Sweden,…