SAO PAULO – Brazil's government says the country's economy grew in 2017 for the first time in three years, aided by a strong performance in the agricultural sector. The government's IBGE statistics bureau said Thursday that the country's gross domestic…
Documents revealed a troubled teenager attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to New Zealand in 1981. (Reuters) New Zealand revealed a troubled teenager attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her 1981 visit to the country, newly…
SAO PAULO – Brazil's Supreme Court has batted down challenges to key parts of a law that environmentalists say has contributed to increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The 2012 law included an amnesty for illegal deforestation that occurred before…
BERLIN – Two Syrians have gone on trial in Berlin on allegations they fought with Islamic extremist organizations in their home country. Abdulmalk A., 31, and Anas Ibrahim A.S., 26, who came to Germany as refugees in 2015, went on…
The fire brigade of Airport Security Services (SSA) rides snowplows removing snow on the runway during at the Geneva Airport, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) GENEVA – Exceptional snow and wind forced airports to…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The Latest on the killing of a Slovak investigative journalist (all times local): 4:20 p.m. Slovakia's national police chief Tibor Gaspar says seven people have been detained during raids conducted in eastern Slovakia in connection with the…
BERLIN – A German federal appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of two men whose midnight drag race along a Berlin boulevard ended in the death of another motorist. The Federal Court of Justice ruled Thursday the crime didn't…
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A senior official in Bangladesh's border agency has accused Myanmar of deploying additional forces across its border near a no man's land where thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees are living in tents. Border Guard Bangladesh Brig. Gen.…
BUCHAREST, Romania – A senior European Union official has urged Romania not to backslide on the anti-corruption fight amid a judicial overhaul that critics say will make it hard to punish high-level graft. European Commission first vice president Frans Timmermans…
Russia has developed a new set of strategic nuclear weapons that can't be intercepted, Vladimir Putin claimed Thursday, marking a breakthrough that could dramatically increase the country's military capabilities. The Russian president made the bold claim during his state-of-the-nation speech…
SKOPJE, Macedonia – In a goodwill gesture to neighboring Greece, Macedonia has removed a prominent statue of the ancient Greek warrior-king Alexander the Great from its main airport terminal. The 2-meter-high (6.5-foot) statue was placed there in 2011 as a…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, says someone using a stolen identity has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the award. The Norwegian news agency NTB quoted committee secretary Olav Njolstad as…
MADRID – Separatist parties in Catalonia's regional parliament are continuing to defy the Spanish government, insisting that fugitive Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont is their legitimate leader despite a ruling by Spain's Constitutional Court that he can't take office. The three…
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the transfer of some land from the country's white minority to the black majority will be handled without damaging the economy and that there will be "no smash and grab." South Africa…
SOFIA, Bulgaria – Leaders from the Western Balkans said Thursday they are determined to implement a wide array of reforms as a prerequisite to joining the European Union in the future. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters in the…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's right-wing government has paved the way for stripping the nation's last communist leader, the late Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, and other communist-era officers of their rank, calling it an "act of restoring moral order." Prime Minister Mateusz…
Marine Le Pen, France's far-right National Front (FN) political party leader, tweeted brutal images of Islamic State violence. (REUTERS) PARIS – French prosecutors have filed preliminary charges against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State…
PARIS – Braving a Siberian blast sweeping across Europe, around two dozen officials from the Paris region spent a night outdoors to call attention to the plight of the homeless. On waking up early Thursday near the Austerlitz train station,…
CAIRO – Egypt's military says two officers have been killed and two others wounded in fighting a part of a massive security operation against Islamic State group militants in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula and other areas. The armed forces…
LONDON – Britain's inquiry into decades of child abuse says the government must pay compensation to 2,000 people who were sent overseas as children to countries where many met harsh conditions, neglect and abuse. More than 100,000 poor children were…
BEIRUT – The Latest on developments regarding Syria (all times local): 2:55 p.m. A top U.N. aid official says five-hour daily pauses in fighting in Syria's embattled eastern Ghouta region laid out under a "unilateral" plan by Russia are not…
Russia is developing a new set of strategic nuclear weapons that can't be intercepted, Vladimir Putin claimed Thursday, marking a breakthrough that could dramatically increase the country's military capabilities. The Russian president made the bold claim during his state-of-the-nation speech…
CAIRO – Egypt's president says his cash-strapped government lacks about 250 billion Egyptian pounds, or $14.1 billion, to overhaul the country's run-down railway system. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's remarks Thursday came a day after a passenger train collided with a cargo train…
NEW DELHI – Winter ends, spring arrives and the colors come out. Across India and Nepal, millions of Hindus are celebrating Holi, the joyous festival of color, smearing one another with colored powder and spraying each other with squirt guns.…