BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s anti-immigration government is prepared to provide free one-way tickets to Brussels for migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter the European Union, a minister said Thursday in response to hefty fines recently imposed on the country over its restrictive asylum policies. Speaking at a news conference in Budapest, Hungarian Prime
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted Thursday by his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk before heading to Kyiv for top-level meetings. Modi and Tusk met for talks on security, the war on Ukraine by India’s strategic partner Russia, and invigorating bilateral ties. They were expected to make statements, and later the
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana says one of the largest diamonds ever found has been unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show on Thursday. The Botswana government believes the huge 2,492-carat stone is the biggest discovered in the country, and the second-biggest ever brought out of a mine. Canadian mining
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two Russian climbers who were injured on the slopes of one of northern Pakistan’s highest mountains reached a hospital in Peshawar on Thursday, a week after they were stranded after being hit by falling ice. The climbers were part of a five-member team of Russian climbers that was attempting to climb
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A drone attack sparked a fire at a military facility in the Volgograd region of southern Russia on Thursday, regional officials and the country’s Ministry of Defense said. Regional Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov said on Telegram that a “defense ministry facility” was on fire after being attacked with drones in the
PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Rescuers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily brought ashore a fifth body on Thursday, leaving one person still unlocated, as investigators sought to learn why the vessel sank so quickly. Rescue crews brought the body bag ashore at Porticello port while divers continued the search for the
A fifth body was brought back to land on Thursday morning, as divers continued to search the wreck of a superyacht that sank off the Sicilian coast. (AP Video shot by Andrea Rosa) A fifth body was brought back to land on Thursday morning, as divers continued to search the wreck of a superyacht that
Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities said. Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities said. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull]
Divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were detained on Wednesday in Romania following a police raid at their house earlier in the day. While being ushered into a police van Andrew Tate complained to reporters that he didn’t know what he had done wrong. Divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate and his brother
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Federal Reserve officials agreed last month that they would likely cut their benchmark interest rate at their next meeting in September as long as inflation continued to cool. The minutes of the Fed’s July 30-31 meeting, released Wednesday, said the “vast majority” of policymakers “observed that, if the data continued to
