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Activists rally in Belgrade to protest railway station disaster
BELGRADE - Hundreds of opposition activists rallied in Belgrade on Sunday to protest over a deadly accident at a railway station in...
Nov 4, 20241 min read


Death toll in Spain's floods rises to 158, among Europe's worst storm disasters
VALENCIA/GODELLETA, Spain - The death toll from devastating flash floods in eastern Spain climbed to 158 on Thursday, with rescue teams...
Nov 2, 20243 min read


Nobel prize in physics goes to machine learning pioneers Hopfield and Hinton
STOCKHOLM - U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for...
Oct 11, 20243 min read


Soccer-Spain's first transgender soccer team makes debut in regional men's league
SANT FELIU DE LLOBREGAT, Spain - A soccer team consisting entirely of transgender men has made its debut in a regional league in Spain,...
Oct 5, 20242 min read


EU presses ahead with Chinese EV tariffs after divided vote
BRUSSELS - The European Union will press ahead with hefty tariffs on China-made electric vehicles, the EU executive said on Friday, even...
Oct 5, 20244 min read


New NATO chief Rutte reaffirms support for Ukraine on Kyiv trip
KYIV - NATO chief Mark Rutte told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "your security matters for ours" on Thursday during his first...
Oct 4, 20242 min read


UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego Garcia airbase
LONDON/PORT LOUIS - Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the...
Oct 4, 20243 min read


China's support to Russia should have implications, new NATO chief says
BRUSSELS - New NATO secretary general Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that China had become a decisive enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine....
Oct 1, 20241 min read


New Swiss central bank chief takes charge in shadow of Credit Suisse trauma
ZURICH - As the Swiss National Bank's new chairman Martin Schlegel takes office this week, the jury is out on the central bank's handling...
Oct 1, 20243 min read


Passengers set for world's first continual cruise after repair delay in Belfast
BELFAST - Cruise passengers are to set sail from Belfast on Monday on a three-and-a-half-year world voyage after being stranded in the...
Oct 1, 20242 min read


Austria's president takes charge as far right isolated after election victory
VIENNA - The far-right Freedom Party's historic victory in an Austrian parliamentary election has left it isolated and partly at the...
Oct 1, 20242 min read


Putin's nuclear talk shouldn't stop NATO backing Ukraine, Stoltenberg says
BRUSSELS - NATO members should not be deterred from giving more military aid to Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's "reckless Russian nuclear...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
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