17 Feared Dead in Russian Boat’s Sinking 

17 Feared Dead in Russian Boat’s Sinking 

Seventeen people are missing and presumed dead after a Russian fishing boat sank in the northern Barents Sea Monday morning,...

EU Unanimously Endorses Post-Brexit Trade Deal

EU Unanimously Endorses Post-Brexit Trade Deal

The European Union has endorsed the post-Brexit trade deal with Britain set to go into effect on January 1.“Green light....

Switzerland: British Quarantined in Ski Resort Flee

Switzerland: British Quarantined in Ski Resort Flee

About 200 British holidaymakers forced to respect a 10-day quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier fled secretly in...

Turkey says Will Retaliate Against Any Attack by East Libya Strongman

Turkey says Will Retaliate Against Any Attack by East Libya Strongman

Turkey’s defense minister said that any attack by eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on its personnel in the North African...

EU Countries Begin Vaccinations Against Coronavirus

EU Countries Begin Vaccinations Against Coronavirus

Several European Union countries began vaccinating against COVID-19 Sunday.In Italy, a nurse, a university professor and a doctor were the...

Nurse, 29, First to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine in Italy

Nurse, 29, First to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine in Italy

Italians began to receive COVID-19 vaccines Sunday after the first batch of nearly 10,000 doses arrived. Italians hope that the...

Dig of Pompeii Fast-food Place Reveals Tastes

Dig of Pompeii Fast-food Place Reveals Tastes

A fast-food eatery at Pompeii has been excavated, helping to reveal dishes that were popular for the citizens of the...

Vaccines Arrive as COVID-19 Cases Rise

Vaccines Arrive as COVID-19 Cases Rise

The coronavirus pandemic has dominated the news this year, and it’s no different this holiday season. Despite public health warnings...

Hundreds of Migrants Freezing in Heavy Snow in Bosnia Camp

Hundreds of Migrants Freezing in Heavy Snow in Bosnia Camp

Hundreds of migrants were stranded Saturday in a squalid, burned-out tent camp in Bosnia as heavy snow fell in the...

Virus Besets Belarus Prisons Filled With President’s Critics 

Virus Besets Belarus Prisons Filled With President’s Critics 

A wave of COVID-19 has engulfed prisons in Belarus that are packed with people in custody for demonstrating against the...

Italy Reports 261 Coronavirus Deaths Saturday

Italy Reports 261 Coronavirus Deaths Saturday

Italy reported 261 coronavirus-related deaths Saturday against 459 the day before, the health ministry said.The daily tally of new infections...

Pandemic Helper? Technology Succeeds, Falls Short During the Crisis

Pandemic Helper? Technology Succeeds, Falls Short During the Crisis

People around the world turned to technology to help them get through the pandemic, but in some key ways tech...

Heath Agency: British Coronavirus Variant Found in Traveler to Sweden

Heath Agency: British Coronavirus Variant Found in Traveler to Sweden

The new variant of the coronavirus circulating in Britain has been detected in Sweden after a traveler from Britain fell...

George Blake: The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold

George Blake: The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold

George Blake, who died Saturday in Moscow aged 98, was a British Cold War spy and Soviet double agent who...

France, Romania Receive First Doses of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

France, Romania Receive First Doses of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

France on Saturday received its first batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which were delivered to the Paris hospital pharmacy...

EU-China Investment Talks Near Completion, Raising Concerns

EU-China Investment Talks Near Completion, Raising Concerns

The European Union agreement with Britain on how to handle affairs post-Brexit has been widely celebrated, yet another of the...

France Records First Case of New Coronavirus Variant

France Records First Case of New Coronavirus Variant

French health officials say the country has recorded its first case of the new COVID-19 variant that has led to...

Britain Says Thousands of Lorries Cross Channel After Virus Testing Stepped Up

Britain Says Thousands of Lorries Cross Channel After Virus Testing Stepped Up

More than 4,500 lorries, among a huge backlog of trucks stranded for days in the British port of Dover, crossed...

No Time to Rest: EU Nations Assess Brexit Trade Deal with UK

No Time to Rest: EU Nations Assess Brexit Trade Deal with UK

The fast-track ratification of the post-Brexit trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union got underway on Christmas Day...

Russia Historian Gets More Than 12 Years for Murdering, Dismembering Girlfriend

Russia Historian Gets More Than 12 Years for Murdering, Dismembering Girlfriend

A Russian court has sentenced a flamboyant Russian professor who killed and dismembered his student lover to 12 1/2 years...

Russia Opens Criminal Probe Into Navalny Lawyer Who Tried to Meet With FSB Agent

Russia Opens Criminal Probe Into Navalny Lawyer Who Tried to Meet With FSB Agent

Russian law enforcement agencies have opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for the outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei...

British Army Helps Clear Backlog of Virus-stranded Drivers

British Army Helps Clear Backlog of Virus-stranded Drivers

About 1,000 British soldiers were spending Christmas Day trying to clear a huge backlog of truck drivers stuck in southeast...