Couple challenges Vatican bank’s ban on workplace marriages
ROME — Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. And he has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as…
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Serbia’s students lead tens of thousands calling for change
NOVI SAD, SERBIA — Serbia’s students led a mass protest and blocked bridges over the River Danube in the northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands into…
continue readingUK to become 1st country to criminalize AI child abuse tools
LONDON — Britain will become the first country to introduce laws against AI tools used to generate sexual abuse images, the government announced Saturday. The government will make it illegal to…
continue readingPope stumbles, but avoids falling when cane snaps
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis tripped while entering the Vatican auditorium for an audience Saturday after the handle of his walking stick snapped, but he avoided falling. The 88-year-old pope often…
continue readingThird expulsion attempt fails as migrants in Albania returned to Italy
SHENGJIN, ALBANIA — An Italian navy ship on Saturday took migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome. It was the third failed attempt…
continue readingRussia says it is advancing toward flashpoint Ukrainian city
KYIV, UKRAINE — Russia said on Saturday it had captured a village flanking the eastern flashpoint city of Toretsk in Ukraine as Kyiv said four people had died in overnight Russian…
continue readingWhy the Arctic matters in the 21st century
The Arctic is one of the coldest and least populated regions on Earth, much of it covered by ice. But in recent years it has become one of the most…
continue readingAnger in Greece over rail disaster prompts opposition plan to challenge government
ATHENS — Three Greek opposition parties vowed Friday to challenge the country’s center-right government with a censure motion over its handling of a deadly rail disaster nearly two years ago. The…
continue readingSerbian student protesters march ahead of bridge blockade as driver rams Belgrade demonstration
INDJIJA, Serbia — Hundreds of striking students marched through the Serbian countryside Friday as they took their anti-graft protest toward the northern city of Novi Sad, where they plan to blockade…
continue readingRussian drones injure 4 in Ukraine’s south, Ukrainian officials say
KYIV, UKRAINE — Russia launched a barrage of drones on Ukraine in an overnight attack on Friday, injuring four people and damaging a hospital and a grain warehouse in the southern…
continue readingTrump support for denuclearization talks with Russia, China raises hopes
white house — Arms control advocates are hoping U.S. President Donald Trump’s fresh words of support for denuclearization will lead to talks with Russia and China on arms reduction. U.S. negotiations…
continue readingSpain struggles to meet NATO defense target, as Trump demands huge additional spending
Visiting Spain this week, NATO’s secretary-general called for members to boost military spending in the face of the threat from Russia. Spain spends the least on defense relative to the…
continue readingZelenskyy condemns Russian strike that killed 9 as ‘terrible tragedy’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned an early Thursday morning Russian drone strike that killed at least nine people as a “terrible tragedy.” The drone, which struck an apartment building in…
continue readingTurkey, Azerbaijan step up efforts to create land corridor through Armenia
Azerbaijan and Turkey are stepping up efforts to secure a land corridor between their countries through Armenia. Until now, Iran, a key ally of Armenia, has backed Yerevan’s opposition to…
continue readingRussia weds biolab, organ harvesting conspiracies to discredit US, Ukraine
Russian disinformation narratives about illicit organ harvesting and biological experiments in Ukraine have no basis in fact. Russia intentionally distorts Ukrainian law intended to support vital medical procedures. …
continue readingEU vows ‘action plan’ for beleaguered auto sector
Brussels, Belgium — The EU promised Thursday an “action plan” to help the bloc’s beleaguered auto sector, as it held talks with industry leaders who have sounded the alarm over emissions…
continue readingUN rights chief seeks $500 million in 2025, warning that lives are at risk
GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work, such as investigating human rights abuses around the world from…
continue readingTrump’s ‘make peace or die’ message to Putin is deepfake. Yet it fooled Russians
The Russian lawmaker attributed to Trump a quote from a deepfake video created by Ukrainian bloggers and shared on the Telegram messaging platform. …
continue readingRussia weds biolab, organ conspiracies to discredit US, Ukraine
Russian disinformation narratives about illicit organ harvesting and biological experiments in Ukraine have no basis in fact. Russia intentionally distorts Ukrainian law intended to support vital medical procedures. …
continue readingTrump’s push for Greenland shakes up Arctic island’s politics
Nuuk, Greenland — The road south from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, runs out at the tip of a blizzard-scoured peninsula stretching into the Labrador Sea. Icebergs drift beyond the sea ice toward…
continue readingYear of the Snake is underway with Lunar New Year festivities
BEIJING — Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday — including in Moscow. Hundreds of people…
continue readingYear of the Snake underway with Lunar New Year festivities
BEIJING — Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday — including in Moscow. Hundreds of people…
continue readingRussian diplomats make first Syria visit since Assad’s fall
MOSCOW — The first Russian official delegation to visit Syria since the toppling of long-term Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad has arrived in Damascus, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday. The visit…
continue readingZelenskyy orders report on US support programs
Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered government officials to report on the U.S. support programs whose funds are “currently suspended” under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. “These are humanitarian programs,”…
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