UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. adviser on preventing genocide says all information he has received indicates the Myanmar government intended to cleanse Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine state and possibly even destroy them "which, if proven, would constitute the crime of…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Authorities in the Dominican Republic have dispatched additional police officers and soldiers to a border town amid fears of reprisals against Haitians after the death of a local couple in a machete attack. The reinforcements…
LONDON – A Russian businessman who was associated with a prominent critic of the Kremlin has died in London, his lawyer said Tuesday. Police are treating the death as unexplained and have put counterterrorism detectives in charge of the case.…
ROME – The leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement is insisting on becoming the country's premier without offering specifics on ending postelection political gridlock. Luigi Di Maio, whose movement won 32 percent of the March 4 vote, said at a news…
BERLIN – Judges in a high-profile German neo-Nazi murder trial have dismissed motions from defense lawyers to introduce new evidence, and accused them of trying to further delay proceedings. Lawyers for Beate Zschaepe , the only known survivor of the…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's justice official has expressed regret that Ireland is delaying the extradition of a wanted Pole and is seeking a European Union court's opinion on Poland's rule of law. The Justice Ministry was reacting Tuesday to a…
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday delivered a fiery denunciation of Moscow's alleged assassination attempt on a former Russian spy living in the UK, and promised consequences for the Kremlin if Russian president Vladimir Putin didn't explain himself by…
BENI, Congo – Authorities in northeastern Congo say more than 40 new deaths have been reported in an area where fighting has erupted between two communities in recent weeks. Willy Maese, deputy administrator in Djugu, said hundreds of homes were…
SKOPJE, Macedonia – A senior United States official is urging Macedonia and Greece to seize the moment to resolve a decades-long dispute over the Balkan country's name that has prevented it from joining NATO. Assistant Secretary of State for European…
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced a man to life in prison for fatally stabbing a Syrian activist and her U.S.-born journalist daughter. The bodies of 60-year-old Arouba Barakat and 23-year-old Halla Barakat were…
TEHRAN, Iran – Tehran's city council has voted to name a street in the Iranian capital after a liberal prime minister who was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup in 1953. The CIA-backed overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh cemented the power of…
ZAGREB, Croatia – A landslide caused by melting snow has destroyed several houses in central Croatia, sending people fleeing from their homes in panic. The landslide in the town of Hrvatska Kostajnica happened Tuesday as Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic was…
The military-grade nerve agent that investigators believe was used to poison a former Russian spy and his adult daughter was identified as Novichock, a hard-to-detect Soviet-engineered killer that's nearly 8 times more potent than VX. Sergei Skripal, 66, and his…
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Organizers of a "Peace March" supporting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban say they expect as many as 200,000 people to attend the event, set to take place three weeks before Hungary's April 8 national election. Leaders of…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal's president, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, has been elected to a second term in voting by national and provincial lawmakers. The Election Commission said Bhandari received a large majority of the votes in Tuesday's balloting. Bhandari, who was…
GENEVA – A 34-year-old youth soccer coach has gone on trial for the brutal killing of four people that shocked Switzerland in late 2015. Thomas N., whose surname wasn't released due to privacy rules, is charged with murder in the…
LONDON – Britain has given Moscow until midnight Tuesday to explain how a Russian-made nerve agent came to poison a former spy in Britain. If no explanation is given, Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia will be hit by "extensive"…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The Latest on the slaying of an investigative journalist and his fiancee in Slovakia (all times local): 2:10 p.m. Slovak authorities have again detained an Italian businessman suspected in the slayings of an investigative journalist and his…
LONDON – Britain's Treasury chief Philip Hammond is claiming "light at the end of the tunnel" for the British economy as the country's debt levels start to come down a decade on from the global financial crisis. In an address…
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek police say they have found in a border river the body of a man believed to have been a migrant trying to enter the country illegally from neighboring Turkey. A police statement says the body was…
WARSAW, Poland – Polish prosecutors say a man has been arrested after he stabbed and injured a couple during their wedding ceremony. The 23-year-old man attacked the couple with a knife as they were about to make their marriage vows…
MADRID – The European Court of Human Rights has sided with two Spaniards who set fire in public to a photograph of Spain's king and queen, saying their protest amounted to freedom of expression. The Strasbourg, France-based court ruled Tuesday…
PARIS – France's minister for overseas territories has announced an emergency plan to improve security on the French island of Mayotte following weeks of street protests. Annick Girardin on Monday and Tuesday visited the tiny Indian Ocean island, where protesters…
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has received an unlikely anniversary gift from his predecessor. Retired Pope Benedict XVI has publicly dismissed as "foolish prejudice" those who say Francis has no theological heft and represents a rupture from his own papacy.…