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JERUSALEM - Israeli protesters shouted down a group of European diplomats on Monday who were visiting the site of a planned settlement expansion in east Jerusalem that would make it even harder to est...

For the second time this month, there's promising news from a COVID-19 vaccine candidate: Moderna said Monday its shots provide strong protection, a dash of hope against the grim backdrop of coronavir...

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron faced the potentially uncomfortable position Monday of meeting U.S. President Donald Trump's top diplomat, having already congratulated President-elect Joe Bid...

CHISINAU, Moldova - Maia Sandu, a former World Bank economist who favours closer ties with the European Union, has won Moldova's presidential runoff vote, decisively defeating the staunchly pro-Russia...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and has become a very dangerous Category 4 storm early Monday as it heads for the same part of Central A...

PARIS - An Islamic State operative goes on trial Monday in France on terror charges for swaggering bare-chested through a train in 2015 with an arsenal of weapons and shooting one passenger. He was br...

GAMMARTH, Tunisia - Libya's rival sides wrapped up a week of U.N.-brokered talks without agreeing on a transitional government that would lead the county to an election in December next year, the top ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced Monday it would start operating daily nonstop flights to Tel Aviv next spring, a move that dee...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will assess the effects of a nearly two-week-long partial lockdown with state governors in a video conference Monday. Germany went into a partial lockdown at t...

BRUSSELS - Amnesty International said Belgium authorities "abandoned" thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday ...