Europe
The Italian Air Force says it is investigating whether an aircraft of its acrobatic team struck birds before it crashed near an airport, killing a child on the ground.
Balmain artistic director Olivier Rousteing says robbers have made off with more than 50 pieces of the new collection that his Paris label intends to show at Fashion Week this month.
People in the front-line Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk gather three times a week for a yoga session to alleviate the stress caused by the persistent shelling of Russian artillery.
A U.N. committee has named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site.
Poland has begun enforcing an entry ban on all Russian-registered passenger cars seeking to enter the country.
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Ryan Fox overcame a three-shot deficit and a triple bogey early in the final round Sunday with six birdies on the back nine — the last one from 6 feet on the 18th hole — for a 5-under 67 and a one-shot victory over Aaron Rai and Tyrrell Hatton in the BMW PGA Championsh
Polish prosecutors say police have discovered the bodies of three newborns in the basement of a house in a village in northern Poland.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel on Sunday to the Italian island of Lampedusa amid an influx of migrants who arrived this week.
Thousands of Czechs have rallied in the capital to demand the government’s resignation over high energy and other prices as well as the war in Ukraine.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey may part ways with the European Union. The comments imply that the country is thinking about ending its bid to join the 27-nation bloc.
London police have arrested a 25-year-old man after he allegedly climbed over a wall and entered the royal stables at Buckingham Palace.
Poland’s conservative governing party was hoping to make migration a key campaign theme ahead of the country’s Oct. 15 parliamentary elections. But not like this.
Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week. Experts say bad weather created a bottleneck resulting in the spike of arrivals from Tunisia.
A Spanish judge has heard evidence of alleged torture during the rule of late dictator Francisco Franco.
European regulators have slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine for failing to protect children’s privacy.
Finland is joining its three Baltic neighbors in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory, a joint move in line with a recent interpretation of the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine.
The European Union has decided not to renew a ban on Ukrainian food imports heading to nearby countries.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is vowing to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with an influx of migrants.
Sept. 8-14, 2023

Protesters celebrate the Catalan National Day in Barcelona. Rescuers search for survivors after a deadly earthquake in Morocco.
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrates his golden jubilee on Friday, marking 50 years since he ascended the throne on Sept. 15, 1973.
From Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as Earth suffers from dramatic weather extremes.
A former Austrian foreign minister who had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding and danced a waltz with him at the 2018 reception says she has moved to St.
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he is awaiting results of an investigation into allegations that Polish consulates sold a quarter of a million work visas to migrants from Asia and Africa for thousands of dollars.
Montenegro’s president says whoever dug an underground tunnel into a court storage area in the capital attacked the country and its justice system.
The Cypriot president says joint military maneuvers with three other EU member states underway in the Eastern Mediterranean underscore the bloc’s readiness to ensure security and stability in the region.
A group of survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck in southern Greece three months ago is suing authorities for failing to intervene to rescue passengers before their vessel capsized in international waters.
The BBC is reporting that a Russian pilot deliberately fired missiles at a Royal Air Force surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea last year.
A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed as authorities work to transfer to transfer thousands of newly arrived migrants to the mainland.
Warning messages have sounded on cellphones and alarms have blared across Germany as part of a nationwide test of the emergency alert system, but the sirens stayed quiet in Berlin.
British police have paid damages to two protesters who were arrested while attending a vigil for a woman murdered by a serving police officer.
China’s Commerce Ministry has protested a decision by the European Union to investigate exports of Chinese electric vehicles, saying it is a protectionist action aimed at distorting the supply chain.
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have failed again to make progress in talks meant to improve their testy ties.
Another attempt to pull free a luxury cruise ship with 206 people that ran aground in the world’s northernmost national park has failed after trying to use the high tide.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in far eastern Russia where he is expected to tour a Russian aircraft plant that builds fighter jets.
Sweden this week marks the 50th anniversary of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s accession to the throne with four days of celebrations that culminate with a military parade through the capital.