Category: 4. World

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents agreed Wednesday that Palestinian factions won’t use Lebanon as a launchpad for any attacks against Israel, and to remove weapons that aren’t…

Israeli troops fired “warning shots” towards a group of 25 diplomats visiting Jenin in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Wednesday, prompting a wave of outrage and calls for an investigation from world leaders and ministers.

Footage shows a…

Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political party has suggested banning girls under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in all public places, as the president chaired a high-level government meeting to discuss what it called “political Islamism”…

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A few weeks ago, Europe celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest war in European history. Twenty million died in the war, six million of them Jews.

Dutch Jews were among the hardest hit. Three quarters of the…

Italy has approved a law that tightens the rules for people with Italian heritage to get passports.

Previously, anyone with an Italian ancestor who lived after 17 March, 1861 – when the Kingdom of Italy was created – qualified to be a citizen…

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The Italian government has this week enacted a law that makes it impossible for anyone to get Italian citizenship through their great-grandparents, dashing the…

BANFF, Alberta (AP) — Leading financial officials from the world’s richest countries are gathering in a Canadian mountain resort this week for what may prove a contentious meeting in the wake of…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday dampened expectations of a quick end to the war in Ukraine.

“There are currently no signs that this war will end quickly,” Merz said in Berlin. However, when mentioning diplomatic efforts to end the…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip Wednesday, despite a surge in international anger at Israel’s widening offensive. The attacks killed at least 82 people,…