By BASHIR ADIGUN and SAM OLUKOYA Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term as head of Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday, facing heightened pressure to defeat Islamic extremism and boost the oil-dependent economy amid concerns ...
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press PARMA, Italy (AP) — The police huddled for hours each day, headphones on, eavesdropping on the doctor. They'd tapped his cellphone, bugged his office, planted a camera in a trattoria. They heard him boast about his power to help Big ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CAEN, France (AP) — The emotion of being liberated from Nazi occupation was so sweet and intense that the French refugees burst into song, a spontaneous rendition of "La Marseillaise" that echoed around the underground network of dank, dark tunnels where ...
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — They are members of a folk music group living communally in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos, but they are in fear for their lives. The musicians from the band Faiyen fled their homes in neighboring Thailand in 2014, ...
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre museum in Paris reopened to the public Wednesday after being shut down for a day when workers complaining about overcrowding walked out. Union representatives met Wednesday morning with management to discuss how to ease the traffic flow at the world's most visited ...
By ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's raucous political world was on edge Wednesday, counting down the hours to a midnight deadline to see whether a new government will be formed or whether, alternatively, there will be an unprecedented second national election this ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and JAE HONG Associated Press KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — A man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming "I will kill you!" attacked a group of schoolgirls near a school bus parked at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring at least 17 before ...
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia put its troops on full alert Tuesday after heavily armed Kosovo police entered Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, firing tear gas and arresting about two dozen people. It was the latest flare-up in long-simmering tensions ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are set for a night of haggling Tuesday over who should lead the 28-nation bloc's key institutions for the next five years after weekend elections shook up Europe's political landscape. Presidents and prime ministers will ...
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy's victorious right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, says the European elections have created "a new geography" of anti-elite sentiment in the EU. But it is far from certain that he will be able to forge a bloc from parties who are united ...