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Danish police say that a routine traffic stop on a highway south of the capital turned into an unusual standoff as a 26-year-old woman locked her car and refused to speak to the police officer who had pulled her over

A top European Union top military officer says a frigate that’s part of an EU mission in the Red Sea to protect merchant shipping has destroyed a drone launched from an area in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels

Air passengers traveling to and from Paris have experienced significant disruptions Thursday, despite a decision by air traffic controllers to cancel a strike after last-minute negotiations

A British government official says two riderless military horses that bolted miles through the streets of London after being spooked by construction noise are in a serious condition and required operations

A major fire that engulfed a restaurant and hotel in eastern India killed at least six people and injured 20

A court in Turkey sentenced nine rail officials to more than 108 years’ imprisonment over a crash six years ago that killed 25 people, local media reported on Thursday

Taiwan’s president-elect has appointed new foreign and defense ministers to join his incoming administration as the island faces continuing military threats and diplomatic isolation from China

Italy is marking its liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule amid a fresh media controversy over the legacy of Italian fascist complicity in the Holocaust and World War II-era crimes

A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden has come under attack, the latest assault likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to outline his vision for Europe to become a more assertive global power at the backdrop of war in Ukraine and other security and economic challenges in a speech on Thursday, ahead of pivotal European Parlia...

A technical problem caused aviation authorities in Norway to temporarily close the airspace over the south of the country, leading to significant delays at Oslo airport

Moscow's court service says a third man has been detained in a major bribery case involving one of Russian's most senior defense officials

Venezuela’s government has repeatedly broken its promise to provide vaccines against HPV for free, and many public-school teachers ignore the requirement to teach sex ed

Niger and other countries in the region are partnering with Russia instead.

People in Gaza flock to Nasser Hospital grounds in hope of finding loved ones.

Russian attack on NATO would end in defeat for Moscow, Polish foreign minister says, but NATO must increase its defenses

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says Poland wants to return to group of countries setting the European Union's direction

Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people

Global automakers and EV startups are unveiling new models and concept cars at China’s largest auto show, with a focus on the nation’s transformation into a major market and production base for digitally connected, new-energy vehicles

From the Himalayan mountains to the tropical Andaman Islands, Indian officials are using helicopters, buses, trucks, boats, donkeys, and mules to carry electronic voting machines for India’s gigantic national elections. Election officials are traveling through jungles and snow-covered mountain tracks, even wading through rivers to set up polling stations in tents, shipping containers, and school buildings in remote areas. The massive seven-phase election in the world’s most populous country of over 1.4 billion people started last week and will conclude on June 1. Nearly 970 million voters — more than 10% of the world’s population — will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament for five years during the staggered elections. The votes will be counted on June 4. Four donkeys lugged the voting machines to Kottur hills in the Dharmapuri parliamentary constituency in Tamil Nadu state in southern India where the first phase of voting was held Friday. In West Bengal state,...

Several dozen kids — 48 girls and one boy, from first-graders to teenagers — gathered recently at a gymnasium in northern St. Petersburg for a hobby horsing competition. The event looked exactly like a proper equestrian competition, but instead of a horse they rode a stick with a horse’s head. Hobby horsing aficionados say one can buy a stick horse or make one from scratch. The Russian Federation of Hobby Horsing, which organized the competition, says on its website that the discipline comes from Finland and that it’s more of a grassroots movement rather than a professional sport. Yet, there are still tournaments, couches and judges, and participants have to abide by the rules of horse-riding competitions.

Poland’s foreign minister says the government wants to return to the group of countries which sets the agenda of the European Union

When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases

Malaria is still a significant public health challenge in Kenya, but an important pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine may help

Ramen noodles are so popular that they've become one reason to visit Japan

Spicy, steaming, slurpy, ramen might be everyone’s favorite Japanese food

A top Hamas political official has told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a five-year truce with Israel and that it will lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is...

The move aims to combat over-tourism.

Military vehicles and red carnations return to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacts dramatic moments from the army coup that brought democracy 50 years ago

Human Rights Watch says military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants

A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of the attack, sparking a national conversation about domestic violence and leading to the government enacting a tougher law on spousal abuse

Officials say more than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast have returned to sea, while 29 had died on the shore

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has raised what the U.S. describes as unfair Chinese trade practices in meetings with local government officials in the financial hub of Shanghai

A Sydney bishop who was stabbed repeatedly in an alleged extremist attack blamed on a teenager has backed X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s legal bid to overturn an Australian ban on sharing graphic video of the attack on social media

ABC News' Ines de La Cuetara chronicles the harvesting and production of cork in Portugal and explores how cork can help the fight against climate change.

A Peruvian judge has ordered 18 months of preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvian men while they are investigated for allegedly trying to kill two Israelis living in the South American country

An Indigenous group in Brazil says its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day

Amnesty International says authorities in Togo have repressed the media and prevented civilians from gathering to protest peacefully

Hamas has released a hostage video showing a well-known Israeli-American who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza

Relatives of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova say it's been 434 days since they heard from her

Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East Afri...

Iran has lashed out at Argentina after the South American country sought the arrest of Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi over his alleged involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center

Botswana’s foreign minister says his country was approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their “unwanted immigrants” but declined the request

Salehi's music denounced government corruption and suppression of dissent.

Spain's prime minister denies corruption allegations against his wife, but says he's considering resigning over them

Hersh Goldberg-Pollin had been held captive by Hamas for 201 days after being captured during the Oct. 7 attack.

The U.N. wants its security forces to protect aid workers, one official says.

British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who didn’t come home

Neighbors Pakistan and Iran have pledged to enhance efforts at a “united front” against Afghanistan-based militants, saying their presence poses a serious threat to regional and global security