LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. The palace announced she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of...

LONDON — Royal officials have confirmed that Britain’s new monarch will be known as King Charles III, ending speculation about whether would use another name during his reign. The former Prince of Wales has been known as Prince Charles since his birth in 1948, but British monarchs have...

RZESZOW, Poland (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday announced major new military aid worth more than 2 billion dollars for Ukraine and other European countries threatened by Russia. Blinken said the Biden administration would provide $2 billion in long-term military...

A former Russian journalist was found guilty of treason on Monday and sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security prison in a ruling widely seen as politically motivated. The sentence handed to Ivan Safronov in Moscow is among the harshest moves against Russian independent journalists and...