Europe

Teenager charged after armed incident at UK college

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LONDON — A teenager has been charged after students and staff at a college in southern England were forced to evacuate earlier this week...

US, UK, Barbadian authors up for Women’s Prize for fiction

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<p>LONDON &mdash; Novels that explore forgotten and neglected communities in Britain, the U.S. and the Caribbean were named finalists on Wednesday for the 30,000...

N Ireland leader faces party revolt over Brexit fallout

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LONDON — The leader of Northern Ireland was fighting Wednesday to keep her job as members of her party tried to oust her over...

Russian FM: US-Russia ties worse than during Cold War

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<p>MOSCOW &mdash; Russia's top diplomat said Wednesday that relations with the United States are now even worse than during the Cold War times because...

France unveils new counterterrorism and intelligence bill

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PARIS — The French government on Wednesday unveiled a new counterterrorism and intelligence bill aiming at better preventing attacks, notably via a greater surveillance...

EU report takes aim at Russia over vaccine fake news

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<p>BRUSSELS &mdash; Russia has launched a major campaign using ministries, companies and pro-Kremlin media to promote the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and spread fake...

EXPLAINER: China prepares space station core module launch

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<p>BEIJING &mdash; China plans to launch the core module for its first permanent space station this week in the latest big step forward for...

German intel agency starts observing COVID conspiracy groups

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BERLIN — Germany's domestic intelligence agency has put under observation some adherents of a disparate group that has attacked the country's lockdown measures, and...

Turkish jets, troops hit PKK targets in new Iraq incursion

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<p>ANKARA, Turkey &mdash; Turkish warplanes were continuing on Wednesday to strike suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq, while commando troops were conducting a...

Police in North Macedonia bust ring selling drugs, weapons

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SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Police in North Macedonia have broken up a major criminal ring of drug, weapons and ammunition traffickers and arrested nine...