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Europe uses subsidies, taxes and policy pauses to offset pain of high fuel prices
Europeans are becoming more incensed as pump prices surpass the equivalent of $12 a gallon in some countries. EU c…
Flight attendants at Canada's WestJet go on strike in dispute over pay
A key issue in the dispute is how flight attendants should be paid for duties performed while still on the ground. The union said some of that work is unpaid, …
60,000 migrants crossed into Spanish territory of Ceuta, but many soon left voluntarily
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited Ceuta on Friday and condemned the border breach, which he described as “a violation of Spain's territorial integri…
AP Exclusive: Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
Their accounts point to a wider deployment of Colombian mercenaries, who rights groups say were recruited by a state-linked firm in the United Arab Emirates to…
US bans foreign-made humanoid robots, targeting China over national security
“Restricting their access to the U.S. removes an important future market and protects U.S. developers from potential price competition,” he said. “However, it …
France orders 4,000 more evacuated as fires displace a third of a million across southwest Europe
Across France and Spain, roughly 330,000 people have been driven from homes and vacation sites by huge wildfires. Spain braced for its fourth heat wave of the …
French president pledges support on visit to fire zone, vows: 'We will win this battle together'
With thousands of firefighters on the ground and rotations of water- and retardant-dropping aircraft, it became a race against time Monday before an expected h…
Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding
The new planet is slightly bigger than Jupiter and takes 91 years to orbit its star, a little longer than it takes Uranus to orbit our sun. Born into a star sy…
China's June exports surge 27% from a year earlier as AI boom drives strong demand
He said trade in electronic components, computer spare parts, and other computing hardware jumped nearly 57% to 5.1 trillion yuan ($760 billion) in the first h…
Fire in Fontainebleau forest near Paris triggers evacuations; 10 still missing in Spanish wildfire
French President Emmanuel Macron said all necessary means were being deployed to fight the fire of ″exceptional scale.”
Hundreds of firefighters battle wildfire in southern Spain that killed at least 12
Bolaños, the justice minister, on Saturday attributed the ferocity of the Almeira wildfire to a “climate emergency.” He said the fire, at its most intense, adv…
Fellow passengers pull back man partly sucked out of broken window on a flight from Greece
The 61-year-old passenger, who was not identified by name, suffered neck and shoulder injuries and friction burns, according to a Greek hospital official who s…
Students abducted in May by Muslim militants in Nigeria are rescued, government says
Eight militants were arrested as part of the operation, while an unspecified number of the militants were killed, Onanuga said.
Fire at a shoe factory kills 28 in one of China's deadliest blazes in recent years
There were 237 factory workers and two visitors in the building when the fire broke out. Authorities evacuated or rescued 213 people. Of the 28 people who died…
Members of a sexual predator network on Telegram tried to hide their crimes with code words
Major details of the investigation remain unknown, at least to the public, including how many attacks and perpetrators have been linked to the German Telegram …
As quake rescue effort winds down, Venezuelans are left alone to recover their dead
“It’s unfair. It’s inhumane, everything that is happening,” 26-year-old Márquez said from the overflowing makeshift morgue at La Guaira port. "We couldn’t get …