Czechs bid final farewell to Karel Gott, Eastern Europe’s Sinatra
Czechs bid a final farewell on Friday to singer Karel Gott, standing in line for hours to pay their respects to the man whose popularity...
Ethiopia’s Abiy wins Nobel Peace Prize for ending Eritrea standoff
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime...
Cargo plane crashes in Congo, killing presidential staff on board
A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashed in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing all eight passengers and crew, a presidential advisor told Reuters on Friday....
‘Border on fire’ as Turkey intensifies Syria campaign
Turkey stepped up its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Friday, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of humanitarian...
German synagogue gunman confesses to crime and to an anti-Semitic motive: prosecutors
The man accused of killing two in a gun attack near a synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, has confessed to the crime and to a...
Four wounded after reported stabbings at UK shopping center
Paramedics were treating four people and police said they were responding to an incident at the Arndale shopping center in the northern English city of...
Turkey says it expects solidarity from NATO against threats
Turkey has reiterated to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that it expects the alliance to show strong solidarity with Ankara against threats to Turkish security,...
Exclusive: U.S. migrant policy sends thousands of babies and toddlers back to Mexico
Since January, the U.S. government has ordered 13,000 migrants under 18, including more than 400 infants, to wait with their families in Mexico for U.S....
Iran oil tanker hit off Saudi coast, may have been missiles: Iran reports
An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck, probably by missiles, in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia’s coast on Friday, Iranian media said, an incident that...
Kremlin critic Navalny says prosecutors want to seize his home
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday that Russian prosecutors had asked a court to seize his Moscow apartment as collateral in a lawsuit over...