BERLIN – German police have arrested a 65-year-old man on suspicion of sexually abusing and killing a young girl in the eastern state of Thuringia almost three decades ago. The case of 10-year-old Stephanie Drews was one of several unsolved…
CAIRO – Three British Members of Parliament have requested that Egyptian authorities allow them to visit the country's imprisoned former president Mohammed Morsi over concerns about his health. The group, headed by the Conservative Party's Crispin Blunt, says in a…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish inventor Peter Madsen goes on trial Thursday for the killing of journalist Kim Wall in his submarine. A look at the key facts in the case: WHO The defendant is Danish space and submarine enthusiast Peter…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish inventor Peter Madsen goes on trial Thursday for the killing of journalist Kim Wall in his submarine. Madsen denies killing Wall and says she died accidentally inside his submarine while he was on deck. However, he…
TIRANA, Albania – Albania's interior ministry says law enforcement staff will be vetted in the next two years as part of an effort to clean up the police. Fighting organized crime and especially drug trafficking is a key challenge for…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – As divers found mutilated body parts in plastic bags on the ocean floor one by one, a gruesome puzzle as dark as any Scandinavian noir emerged in Denmark: A young Swedish reporter who had embarked on a…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros has rejected claims by Slovakia's prime minister that he is involved in an attempt to destabilize the government. Prime Minister Robert Fico said Monday that Soros has somehow used his influence to influence…
ATHENS, Greece – Greece's defense minister says he has complained to the European Union and NATO following the arrest of two Greek soldiers in Turkey after they strayed across the border during a patrol last week. Panos Kammenos said the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates says it will now require anyone conducting "commercial activities" through social media to register for a government-issued license. The new rules announced Tuesday target so-called "social media influencers," who parlay their…
GENEVA – U.N. war crimes investigators said Tuesday that a Russian plane was apparently behind an airstrike in November in Syria's Idlib province that killed 84 people at a marketplace, an attack which could amount to a war crime. The…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised to not use nuclear or conventional weapons against South Korea and expressed willingness to hold talks with the United States on denuclearization, Seoul said on Tuesday after a rare two-day visit to Pyongyang.…
MOSCOW – Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who fell critically ill in Britain on Monday after exposure to an "unknown substance", was one of four prisoners who were pardoned and released from custody in 2010 as part of a…
MADRID – Catalonia's parliament is to vote next week on whether to elect a jailed separatist leader as the region's new president, as part of an ongoing effort to gain independence from Spain. Parliament speaker Roger Torrent convened the plenary…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Police say a suicide bomber riding a bicycle with explosive devices strapped to his body killed three people when he detonated himself in a crowded suburb of Nigeria's northeast city of Maiduguri. Borno State police spokesman Joseph…
An aerial view shows Shinmoedake peak erupting between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo/via REUTERS) TOKYO – A volcano in southern Japan that appeared in a James Bond film has erupted, shooting smoke and ash thousands of meters (feet)…
BRUSSELS – The Northern Ireland party that props up the government of Prime Minister Theresa May is insisting that current European Union proposals to avoid a hard border in Ireland once Britain leaves the bloc are "not acceptable." Democratic Unionist…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's state news agency PAP says the deadly collapse of an apartment block in the western Polish city of Poznan was probably caused by a resident who had killed his wife and then tried to kill himself…
BANGKOK – A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft…
CAIRO – Egyptian aviation officials say a passenger on an EgyptAir flight from the Gulf state of Oman to Cairo assaulted crew members but was quickly overpowered. The officials say the Boeing 737-800 with 78 passengers returned to Muscat, Oman's…
LISBON, Portugal – A report by an international watchdog has warned that Portugal has a "very low level of compliance" with recommendations on fighting government corruption. The Group of States against Corruption, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption agency, said Tuesday…
BANGKOK – The senior U.N. official for human rights says it is impossible to send Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh safely back to Myanmar because it appears that widespread and systematic violence against them inside Myanmar, amounting to ethnic cleaning, is…
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka's president has declared a state of emergency amid fears that anti-Muslim attacks in a central hill town could spread. Details of the emergency decree were not immediately announced, and it was unclear how it…
AMMAN, Jordan – The secretary general of NATO says the alliance plans to step up training of Iraq's armed forces, including by setting up military academies. Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the goal of training is to ensure that…
SALISBURY, England – The Latest on developments surrounding the former Russian spy found critically ill in the southern England town of Salisbury (all times local): 9:30 a.m. British counter-terror specialists are supporting police in Salisbury after a former Russian spy…