KAMPALA, Uganda – The World Health Organization says a severe humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Tanzania as thousands of Burundians seek refuge there because of political tensions back home. WHO said in a statement Tuesday that the situation is “especially worrisome” in Tanzania’s Kagunga village, where the original population of …
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SKOPJE, Macedonia – Macedonia’s rival political leaders have spent 12 hours in overnight talks in Strasbourg in efforts to resolve one of the country’s deepest political crises since its independence in 1991. Conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and leftist opposition leader Zoran Zaev began talks late Tuesday along with several …
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BUCHAREST, Romania – A Romanian court has sentenced a former Bucharest district mayor to eight years in prison for illegally selling the city’s real estate at a price far below its market value. The Bucharest Court of Appeal announced the sentence Friday against Cristian Poteras and four town hall employees, …
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LISBON, Portugal – Portuguese labor groups are vowing to keep up their fight against the government’s privatization plans for public transport, as Lisbon subway staff walked off the job for the 43rd time in four years. Workers at the Lisbon bus company Carris and national railroad company Comboios de Portugal, …
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ZURICH – The Latest on FIFA developments: ___ 9 a.m. (0700 GMT, 3 a.m. EDT) FIFA President Sepp Blatter has cancelled another speaking engagement as he avoids appearing in public for a second day. FIFA says Blatter will not give a scheduled speech to open Thursday’s session of a soccer …
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MANILA, Philippines – Philippine police say at least 15 people have been wounded in two separate blasts that hit a police camp in a restive southern province where Muslim militants operate. According to a police report, the first explosion was caused by a grenade near a mosque at the police …
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MADRID – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is trumpeting news of a big drop in the number of unemployed citizens as a reason for voters to support his party in general elections he must call by the end of the year. The number of registered unemployed dropped by nearly 118,000 …
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The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written a letter Wednesday to first lady Jill Biden, urging her to call for the “immediate release” of child hostages who are “suffering” in the captivity of Hamas terrorists. Sara Netanyahu opened her plea by saying that “I’m writing to you …
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Six teenagers are standing trial in Paris on Monday on charges of inciting the 2020 beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion on the French values of freedom of expression and secularism. Five of the charged minors, who were between the …
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Powerful North Korean official Kim Yo Jong claimed Thursday that her nation was not even considering meeting with the U.S. face to face on any issues. Yo Jong released a harsh statement in reaction to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who joined representatives of many other nations in …
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