SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired suspected artillery into the sea Sunday, South Korea's military reported. This was days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un demanded a greater defense capability to deal with threats from outside. The South Korean...

PARIS -- French voters vote for lawmakers in Sunday's parliamentary election. President Emmanuel Macron is trying to win his majority, but he is under increasing threat from a leftist coalition. In the first round, more than 6,000 candidates are running...

GENEVA -- The head for the World Trade Organization said that it would be a bumpy and difficult road. Sunday's opening of its fourth-highest-level meeting in four years saw issues such as pandemic preparedness and food insecurity, set against the backdrop...

VENICE (Italy) -- Venice's Jewish Ghetto is regarded as the first in Europe and the first in the entire world. A new effort is being made to preserve its 16th century synagogues for both Jews who are still there and tourists who visit. David Landau,...

CAIRO -- Libyan officials arrived in Cairo Sunday to resume talks about constitutional amendments that would allow for more elections. North African nation finds itself in a political impasse again, with two rival administrations seeking legitimacy. Following...

MADRID -- Spain's weather service reports that a mass of heat air from North Africa caused the country's first major heatwave of the year on Sunday. Temperatures are expected to rise up to 43° Celsius (109.4° Fahrenheit) at some locations. According...

VISBY (Sweden) -- The idea of having to defend Gotland from a foreign invasion seemed so absurd to Swedish decision-makers at beginning of the century, that they demilitarized the Baltic Sea Island. The Swedish Armed Forces have returned and are now training...

CAIRO -- Saturday's sentence by an Egyptian court for the April stabbing murder of a Coptic Christian priest was handed down. This attack shocked the Arab world, which is the largest country in the region. Nehru Tawfiq (60) was convicted at Alexandria...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zeleskyy stated that no one knows how long the conflict in his country will last, but that Ukrainian forces are exceeding expectations by stopping Russian troops from taking over eastern Ukraine. This is where...

MOSCOW -- Three years after McDonald's in Russia suspended operations, hundreds of people rushed to the famous outlet at Moscow's Pushkin Square. The restaurant was reopened Sunday by a Russian owner with a new name. McDonald's in Russia stopped...

SINGAPORE -- China's defense ministry accused the United States of trying to "hijack” the support of countries within the Asia-Pacific region in order to turn them against Beijing. Washington claims it is seeking to promote its own interests "under...

CARACAS (Venezuela) -- A group of U.S.-backed opposition members attacked the leader of Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition Saturday, according to his parallel government. The opposition statement includes a photo showing Juan Guaido being held back while...

ATALAIA DON NORTE (Brazil) -- Authorities said that the main line of investigation by police into the disappearances of a British journalist, and an Indigenous official in Amazon, points to an international network of poor fishermen who illegally fish in...

HUIXTLA (Mexico) -- Mexico's immigration agency issued almost 7,000 transit visas and temporary documents to migrants who were part of a caravan that had disintegrated in southern Mexico by Saturday. Many people were traveling north in buses, while others...

ISTANBUL -- One person was killed by flooding in Istanbul on Saturday after heavy rainfall. According to the state-run Anadolu Agency, search and rescue teams found the body of the man aged 27, who was a bus driver. A spokesperson for Turkey's interior...

CAIRO -- Saturday's United Nations mission to Libya expressed concern over clashes at Tripoli. This was after a night of intense fire between militias in Tripoli. The latest fighting is taking place in Libya, which is now divided between two competing...

MEXICO CITY -- President Daniel Ortega authorized Russian troops, planes, and ships to be deployed to Nicaragua to train, enforce law, or respond to emergencies. This week's decree, which was confirmed by Russia on Thursday, allows Ortega to allow Russian...

SKOPJE (North Macedonia) -- On Saturday, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited North Macedonia as well as Bulgaria to try and resolve the dispute that has erupted between the two countries. This is a result of European Union membership talks being rescheduled...

ROME -- Authorities said Saturday that seven bodies were found by Italian rescuers. They included four Turks and two Lebanese who were killed when their helicopter crashed into a mountainous, heavily forested area in northern Italy. Col. Alfonso Cipriano...

LONDON -- A British family sentenced to death for its support of Ukraine has called for the release of the man and the accordance of international human rights conventions to prisoners of war. A court in the separatist-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic...

BERLIN -- Germany will temporarily implement border controls to prepare for the Group of Seven summit in the Bavarian Alps later this month. The summit of rich nations will be held in Elmau between June 26-28 with leaders from the United States, France and...

PARIS -- Although Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen from the far right in April's presidential election in France, the French president now faces a threat from the other side of the political spectrum as he fights for parliamentary power. On Sunday,...

PHNOM PENH (Cambodia) -- The prime minister of Cambodia urged the military-ruled Myanmar government to reconsider four death sentences against political opponents. He suggested that executing them would draw international condemnation and make it difficult...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Serhiy Chornyi, a Ukrainian man working out in an outdoor gym on Venice Beach (the name is given to the stretch of sand that runs through the capital of Ukraine), is trying to tone his summer body. He's putting on a lot of iron. His...