A total of 8,845 people made a first application for asylum in the Netherlands in the third quarter of this year, 2.5 times the second quarter total and the highest number since the end of 2015. M The biggest group – 2,550 – came from Syria, while 1,565 people from Afghanistan applied for...

TOKYO (AP) — A man dressed in Batman's Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said. The Tokyo Fire Department said 17...

 President Joe Biden plans to tell Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Sunday morning meeting at the Group of 20 summit that the two nations need to find ways to avoid crises with each other, as the alliance has been tested recently by a threat to no longer recognize the U.S. envoy...

 A small cargo ship carrying about 400 mostly Afghan migrants and refugees was towed Saturday to “a safe anchorage” off the Greek island of Kos near the Turkish coast, Greece’s coast guard said. A coast guard spokesman told The Associated Press on customary condition of...