JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops on Tuesday shot and killed a Palestinian male suspected of trying to attack soldiers at a West Bank intersection, the military said. The Israeli army said the alleged assailant attempted to stab troops near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West...

The Netherlands experienced on the night of Monday 25 to Tuesday 26 January a second outbreak of violence orchestrated by opponents of the curfew supposed to contain the coronavirus epidemic. The main cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, but also other localities (Amersfoort, Geleen,...

Facebook is launching its news section Facebook News in the UK on Tuesday, which provides paid press articles to publishers. The United Kingdom thus becomes the second country to benefit from this service, launched at the end of 2019 in the United States with the desire to promote...

An inevitable third confinement? Faced with an epidemic of Covid-19 still active and faced with the new situation of variants, the executive must decide this week whether it is still tightening the screw to fight against the coronavirus. A health defense council is scheduled for Wednesday...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Monday that Russia will send 24 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine.   After a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lopez Obrador said on Twitter he thanked his Russian counterpart for agreeing to...

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Monday spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling for support in the debt negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with the Paris Club.  The leaders' videoconference lasted around 40 minutes, with Fernandez thanking...

Russia has accused Western countries of encouraging rallies in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Tens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say. On Monday, President Vladimir Putin said the protests...

Taiwan has reported a large incursion by Chinese warplanes for the second day running, a show of force that coincides with the first days of US President Joe Biden's term of office. Sunday's operation involved 15 aircraft and followed a similar drill that led to a warning from Washington....

Turkey and Greece on Monday launched the first direct diplomatic contact in the form of exploratory talks in nearly five years to address their disputes related to sovereignty rights in the Eastern Mediterranean. The meeting in Istanbul, led by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Önal and...

Israel is an apartheid regime that works to perpetuate Jewish supremacy over Palestinians in the entire territory under its control, one of Israel’s most prominent rights groups has said, prompting backlash from Israeli authorities and supporters of the country. In a new position paper...

Indian and Chinese soldiers engaged in a "minor faceoff" last week in the northeastern state of Sikkim, the Indian army said on Monday. "It is clarified that there was a minor face-off at Nakula area of North Sikkim on 20 January 2021 and the same was resolved by local commanders as per...

The future unity of the UK was thrown into doubt Sunday when a survey for The Sunday Times newspaper showed 51% support in Northern Ireland for a border poll within the next five years. A border poll is a referendum in Northern Ireland on reunification with the Republic of Ireland. In...

Iran has asked Indonesia to provide details about the seizure of an Iranian-flagged vessel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday, a day after Jakarta said it had seized Iran and Panama-flagged tankers in its waters. Indonesia said on Sunday its coast guard had...

Working alongside the Sursock Cochrane family, the project seeks to restore the badly damaged Ottoman villa, which was torn apart by the Aug. 4 blast, and transform it into a cultural center and museum

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president was returned to office for a second term with a resounding victory Sunday in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who had been...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s two biggest political parties say they have clinched a deal to form a new government to be led by a female prime minister for the first time in the Baltic country’s history, replacing the previous Cabinet that collapsed into a corruption scandal earlier this...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The unrelenting increase in COVID-19 infections in Spain following the holiday season is again straining hospitals, threatening the mental health of doctors and nurses who have been at the forefront of the pandemic for nearly a year. In Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar,...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with Israeli police in two major cities on Sunday, as authorities faced new difficulties in enforcing coronavirus restrictions in the country's religious communities. The clashes occurred in Jerusalem and Ashdod as police attempted to...

BEIJING (AP) — Eleven workers trapped for two weeks inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface on Sunday, a landmark achievement for an industry long-blighted by disasters and high death tolls. State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one-by-one in baskets on...

LONDON (AP) — Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday that three-quarters of the U.K.’s over-80s...