Sunday is Election Day in Russia, and the Golos call-in center is a beehive of activity. Volunteers at this election monitoring organization are taking calls from voters reporting on irregularities. Lawyers are on hand. There is a group of analysts…
ROME – The Italian news agency ANSA says a Spanish non-governmental organization's migrant rescue ship has been sequestered in Sicily by prosecutors' orders. The seizure took place Sunday in Pozzallo port, where a day earlier the Proactiva Open Arms' vessel…
Straight off his fraud-tainted presidential election win, Vladimir Putin is calling accusations of Russia's involvement in the poisoning of an ex-spy as "nonsense."
Backlash grew around the world Sunday after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed a huge victory in his country's presidential election. Putin was re-elected with more than 75 percent of the vote, exit polling data showed, which keeps him as Russia's leader…
Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election with more than 75 percent of the vote Sunday, according to exit poll data. The Russian strongman's election win keeps him as Russia's leader for another six years and allows him to claim the…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Hundreds of people are marching in Brazil's second largest city to protest the murder of councilwoman and human rights activist Marielle Franco. Franco and her driver Anderson Pedro Gomes were shot dead by assailants Wednesday night…
MOSCOW – Social networks buzzed all day Sunday with videos, photos and firsthand accounts of voting violations in Russia's presidential election. Election authorities said they will investigate all irregularities and annul results where needed. But the breadth of the reports…
Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election with more than 73 percent of the vote, according to exit poll data. The Russian strongman received at least 73.9 percent of the vote, according to the BBC and the Associated Press. Putin won…
World leaders condemn Russia for spy attack U.S., Germany and France issue statement of solidarity, saying they agree with U.K. assessment that Russia was responsible for nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. A Russian…
KIGALI, Rwanda – Burundi's president has signed a decree setting May 17 for a referendum on changes to the constitution that could keep him in power until 2034, days after some ruling party members bestowed on him the title of…
GENEVA – Catalonia's fugitive ex-president says that independence for the Spanish region is not the "only option" for resolving Spain's worst political crisis in recent decades. Carles Puigdemont says that a moderate alternative could be adopting Switzerland's canton model, which…
JERUSALEM – Israel's Shin Bet security service says a Palestinian has stabbed an Israeli in Jerusalem, seriously wounding him. Police said he was shot dead by officers at the scene. The attack Sunday occurred in Jerusalem's Old City, home to…
YEKATERINBURG, Russia – From the stage of a gay nightclub, a performer in drag reminded those in the crowd of their civic duty as Russians. "Do you know what's happening tomorrow?" asked Andrei. "I'm going to the election tomorrow. If…
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian President Bashar Assad visited troops Sunday on the front line in the newly captured areas of eastern Ghouta, near the capital Damascus, according to images broadcast on state media and on the presidency sites. In the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A school teacher from the U.K. has won a highly-competitive $1 million prize that honors one exceptional teacher a year who's made a significant contribution to the profession. Andria Zafirakou beat out some 30,000 applicants…
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek police say they have arrested three migrant traffickers, a Turk and two Iraqis near the Greece-Turkey. The traffickers were arrested after bringing 45 Syrian and Iraqi men, women and children across a river that forms the…
After China's rubber-stamp legislature reappointed Xi Jinping as China's president with no term limits, the communist country's massive propaganda efforts kicked into high gear. Xi, 64, is considered the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong and last Sunday was…
Choe Kang Il, a senior North Korean diplomat handling North American affairs, is seen at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, March 18, 2018. (Yonhap via AP) A top North Korean diplomat is headed to Finland on Sunday for…
KAMPALA, Uganda – Ask some Africans what they think of President Donald Trump and they just shake their heads. That sense of indifference appears to have deepened after Trump fired his secretary of state at the end of Rex Tillerson's…
BERLIN – Swiss authorities say they've recovered the bodies of two French skiers killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps but two other skiers remain missing. Police from the Valais canton, or state, said the bodies of the two…
LONDON – British police say a man who had been kicked out of a nightclub rammed his car into revelers on a dance floor, injuring at least 13. The Kent Police force says the 21-year-old has been arrested on suspicion…
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan official says a male body has been recovered from the rubble of a building collapse as search and rescue work was called off. Nairobi's police chief Joseph ole Tito said Sunday the operation had been…
Russian President Vladimir Putin looked to be victorious and win a fourth presidential term on Sunday, with the only possible hitch being if large numbers of voters decide to opt out and not vote. Polls have given Putin, who, if…
BUNIA, Congo – The assailants attacked under cover of darkness, slaughtering Nguli Nzafi 's wife and three children with machetes and arrows. The 71-year-old, who also lost all 40 of his cattle in the violence, was forced to flee on…