BERLIN (AP) — Germany confirms it will supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks and approve requests by other countries to do same.

(THE CONVERSATION) Salman Rushdie, the celebrated Anglo-Indian writer, once declared that the “most precious book” he possessed was his passport. Rushdie had already published dozens of works, including novels, short stories, essays and travelogues, to wide acclaim and considerable...

Applications for asylum in the European Union in 2022 almost doubled compared with the previous year. Every third applicant came from Syria. People seeking protection submitted 923,991 applications for asylum in the European Union (EU) in 2022 – marking a 46.6% increase from the previous...

BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — A small broom and dustpan in hand, Olga Prenzilevich cleans up the debris along the road in a sleepy Kyiv suburb next to a cordoned-off mound of charred vehicles and misshapen wreckage. But she can’t sweep away the terrible memory of seeing the government...