WARSAW, Poland – Polish lawmakers have approved a new national holiday honoring the Poles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The Senate voted Wednesday on the bill, initiated by President Andrzej, to make March 24 a…
GENEVA – The Swiss Foreign Ministry says Carles Puigdemont, the fugitive ex-president of the restive Spanish region of Catalonia, is heading to Switzerland for a private visit. The ministry said Wednesday that Puigdemont is due in Geneva after accepting an…
SAO PAULO – The Education Department of Brazil's biggest city says more than 90 percent of the public schools it runs have been affected by a weeklong strike by teachers protesting proposed changes to their pension plans. The department says…
MEXICO CITY – A Mexican human rights group says a Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to 63 years in prison for abusing a boy. The Action Group for Human Rights and Social Justice said Tuesdays the conviction and prison…
BUCHAREST, Romania – Romania's president has sent back to Parliament legislation regulating the integrity of public officials saying it diminishes standards of probity expected of elected officials. President Klaus Iohannis said Wednesday that the measure approved by Parliament in Dec.…
LONDON – The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England (all times local): 4:40 p.m. Germany's new foreign minister says Berlin "can fully and completely understand" why Britain took action over the poisoning of a former…
LONDON – Facebook has taken down the official home page of the far-right group Britain First along with the pages of its two leaders because they violate the company's standards. The group gained prominence in November when U.S. President Donald…
BENGHAZI, Libya – Libya's top prosecutor says criminal groups are smuggling Libyan fuel on board fishing vessels to Europe. Al-Sadiq al-Sour told reporters on Wednesday their investigations revealed that smugglers use sea routes to move subsidized fuel from the western…
A former Russian scientist who leaked Moscow’s secret experimentation of the nerve agent believed used in the poisoning of an ex-spy is now warning that hundreds of people in Britain could be at risk of exposure for years. Vil Mirzayanov, the…
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has admitted that it altered a photo sent to the media of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI about Pope Francis' theological background. The manipulation changed the meaning of the image. The Vatican's communications…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's firing is reverberating across a Middle East where Iran fears his replacement will fight to end the 2015 nuclear deal, a hope of Gulf Arab states as Palestinians worry…
JERUSALEM – Israel's government watchdog has taken aim at the military's "Hannibal" directive — a controversial tactic used when soldiers were abducted. The directive, used most recently during a 2014 war in Gaza, authorized the use of heavy fire if…
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Slovenia's teachers on strike for the second time in a month after failing to reach a deal with the government on higher wages. Many schools and kindergartens remained closed on Wednesday as teachers held street protests in…
VILNIUS, Lithuania – A Lithuanian lawmaker resigned Wednesday, a day after surviving an impeachment vote in the Baltic country's parliament for his reported ties to Russia. Mindaugas Bastys, a former Social Democrat-turned-independent, announced his decision hours after Prime Minister Saulius…
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip – The United Nations says about $540 million is needed for humanitarian relief in the Palestinian territories in 2018. Jamie McGoldrick, the top U.N. humanitarian coordinator, said Wednesday that 75 percent of that sum is for…
ROME – Italian bomb experts have moved to the sea for safe detonation a 500-pound (225-kilo) British bomb from World War II, accidentally dug up in an Adriatic town. Some 23,000 people in Fano were evacuated Tuesday night as a…
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar – Myanmar officials say the time is right to have U.N. agencies become involved in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh to escape violence against them. Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary Myint Thu said Wednesday that…
British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday she is expelling 23 Russian diplomats from the United Kingdom following the suspicious poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter. It will be the largest expulsion since the Cold War. May’s…
CAIRO – Well-traveled and much experienced as a soccer coach, Hector Cuper is facing a new obstacle when it comes to preparing Egypt for this year's World Cup. The tournament in Russia starts on the final day of Ramadan, the…
Who is Rodrigo Duterte? Fox News takes a look back at some moments in the career of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines Outspoken Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte made the controversial decision to withdraw his country from the International Criminal…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's justice minister says three men have been charged with murder in connection with the 1992 deaths of communist-era top official Piotr Jaroszewicz and his wife. The brutal killing of Jaroszewicz, 82, and of Alicja Jaroszewicz, 66,…
BRUSSELS – The European Union moved Wednesday to speed up the return of unauthorized migrants, announcing plans to punish countries that refuse to take back their nationals by restricting visas for their diplomats. While the number of people entering Europe…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local): 1:15 p.m. Syrian state-run TV is broadcasting footage of patients being evacuated from a besieged region outside the Syrian capital, part of a negotiated deal to allow critical cases…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The U.N.'s specially appointed researcher on human rights in Cambodia has said it is a mistake for the government of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen to prioritize stability and development over human rights. Professor Rhona Smith,…