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FILE - In this May 31, 2019 file photo, Hezbollah fighters march at a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon. On Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah revealed that his militant group has 100,000 trained fighters. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
Hezbollah leader declares his group has 100,000 fighters
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah declared for the first time Monday that his powerful militant group has 100,000 trained fighters. Hassan Nasrallah disclosed the size of the … more
Saab Story: Maduro ally to appear in court on graft charges
MIAMI (AP) — A businessman who prosecutors say was the main conduit for massive corruption by Nicolas Maduro's inner circle was to make an initial court appearance in Miami federal court Monday … more
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FILE - This Feb. 6, 2020, file photo shows the Volvo logo in the lobby of the Volvo corporate headquarters in Brussels. Swedish automaker Volvo said Monday, Oct. 4,2021 it plans to raise at least 25 billion kroner ($2.9 billion) by selling shares to fund its electric vehicle transformation strategy. Volvo and its parent company, Chinese carmaker Geely, have applied to hold an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stockholm. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
Sweden's Volvo Cars launches IPO, seeks Stockholm listing
HELSINKI (AP) — The Chinese-controlled Swedish car maker Volvo Cars will make a return as a listed company after a hiatus of more than two decades following an initial public offering and share … more
FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, A migrant stands by the fence at the at the newly built refugee camp in the Rudninkai military training ground, some 38km (23,6 miles) south from Vilnius, Lithuania. European Union foreign ministers on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 are considering ways to stop illegal flow of migrants into the 27-nation bloc from neighbouring Belarus, including stopping companies from leasing jets to Belarusian airline Belavia. Several EU leaders have accused the government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of facilitating migration into the EU in retaliation for EU sanctions. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
EU mulling ways to end jet lease to Belarus’ airline
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — European Union foreign ministers looked at ways on Monday to stop the illegal migration into the 27-nation bloc from neighboring Belarus, including stopping companies from leasing … more
US says Guantanamo detainee can pen letter about torture
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to provide information to Polish officials about his torture in CIA custody following the 9/11 … more
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A Portuguese Navy officer takes pictures of bales of cocaine weighting some 5,2 tons and a seized yacht displayed for the media at a Portuguese Navy base in Almada, south of Lisbon, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Portuguese police said Monday the seizure was the largest in Europe in recent years and the biggest in Portugal for 15 years. Police localized and intercepted the 24-meter (79-foot) yacht at sea. The operation involved police from Portugal, Spain, the Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States and the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
More than 5 tons of cocaine seized in Atlantic operation
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — An international police operation has seized 5.2 metric tons (5.73 short tons) of cocaine with a street value estimated at around 200 million euros ($232 million) on a yacht … more
Official: Czech president can't perform duties due to health
PRAGUE (AP) — Health problems were preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out his duties, an official said Monday. The speaker of the Czech Senate, Milos Vystrcil, said that a … more
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This image courtesy of the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt shows the Nebra Sky Disc. The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old “Nebra Sky Disc,” first discovered in Germany in 1999, is one of the oldest surviving representations of the cosmos in the world and has never before been displayed in the U.K., the London museum said Monday. (Juraj Liptak/State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt via AP)
British Museum to display the world's oldest map of stars
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old … more
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EU commissioner on climate action: "Leave no one behind"
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — All nations have a responsibility to ensure that no one gets left behind and that changes are as fair as possible in the transition to a greener economy that's needed to … more
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US extends military support to Georgia for 6 years
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed an agreement to continue American support for Georgia’s military for six years. The current agreement for such support is … more
A mother tests her daughter with a Corona antigen self-test before starting school in Trencianske Stankovce, Slovakia, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. Slovakia has reimposed coronavirus restrictions in the parts of the country that is hardest hit by the latest surge of infections. Five counties all located in northern Slovakia are affected by the measures that include the closures of restaurants with people only allowed to buy meals at take-out windows. (Radoslav Stoklasa/TASR via AP)
Restaurants closed in parts of Slovakia amid COVID-19 surge
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia on Monday reimposed coronavirus restrictions in the hardest-hit parts of the country amid the latest surge of infections. Five counties all located in … more
A demonstrator stomps on a smoke canister during a protest against vaccinations and coronavirus measures in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. EU leaders are meeting Tuesday evening in nearby Kranj, Slovenia, to discuss increasingly tense relations with China and the security implications of the chaotic U.S.-led exit from Afghanistan, before taking part in a summit with Balkans leaders on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Slovenia PM blames rising infections on virus protesters
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's populist prime minister on Monday blamed a rise in COVID-19 infections on protests in early October that erupted into clashes between police and thousands of … more
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko listens to World Health organization Director for Europe Hans Kluge during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
Belarus suspends routine medical care to focus on COVID-19
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus on Monday ordered a halt to routine medical care at state clinics in order to devote more resources to coronavirus patients. The Health Ministry said the suspended … more
Center-left mayoral candidate Roberto Gualtieri flashes a v-sign at his party's headquarters in Rome, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Romans are waiting to learn who will be their next mayor, following runoff elections that ended Monday in the Italian capital. The top vote-getters in the first round of balloting two weeks earlier, Enrico Michetti, a novice politician backed by a far-right leader, and Roberto Gualtieri, a Democrat and former finance minister, competed in the runoff Sunday and Monday. Italian writing in background read: 'Thank you! Now Rome. All of us. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Center-left candidate claims victory in Rome's mayoral vote
ROME (AP) — Roberto Gualtieri, a former finance minister from Italy's Democratic Party, claimed victory Monday in Rome's mayoral election after partial results indicated he had a wide advantage … more
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FILE - In this March 4, 2021 file photo, a man receives the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, at Al-Nozha Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. On Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, Egypt's government said starting November 15 it will require public servants to have a vaccination certificate or show a weekly negative COVID-19 test before entering their workplaces. The measures will also require the public to show proof of vaccination to enter government buildings starting December 1. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Egypt to require virus vaccinations for civil servants
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's government will soon require public servants to have a vaccination certificate or show a weekly negative COVID-19 test before entering their workplaces. The mandate is an … more
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Christian Lindner, parliamentary group leader and party leader of the FDP, comes to a joint meeting of the FDP federal executive and the newly elected members of the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. They will discuss the start of coalition negotiations with the SPD and the Greens. Earlier, the party executive committee had already met. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
Pro-business party OKs formal talks on new German government
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's pro-business Free Democrats on Monday became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new government. The Free Democrats leader, … more
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 file photo, port workers gather during a protest in Trieste, Italy. Italy’s president on Monday strongly criticized the violent protests that have erupted Italy’s new anti-coronavirus workplace health pass requirement, saying they appeared aimed at jeopardizing Italy’s economic recovery just as it was getting going. President Sergio Mattarella spoke out as riot police again clashed with protesters at the port in the northern city of Trieste. The protesters, who have included right-wing agitators in previous episodes, oppose the so-called Green Pass requirement. (Duccio Pugliese/LaPresse via AP, File)
Italy's president criticizes violent COVID-19 pass protests
ROME (AP) — Italy’s president on Monday strongly criticized the violence that has erupted amid protests over the country's new coronavirus workplace health pass requirement, saying it appeared … more
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Witnesses: Ethiopian military airstrikes hit Tigray capital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian military airstrikes have hit the capital of the and killed at least three people, witnesses said Monday, returning the war abruptly to Mekele after several months of … more
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Rescuers search for bodies of victims amist the debris of a landslide following heavy rains atKoottickal in Kottayam district, southern Kerala state, India, Sunday, Oct.17, 2021. More than two dozen people have died in the state due to intense rains which have triggered floods and landslides. (AP Photo)
Floods, landslides kill at least 28 people in southern India
NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials predicted more rain as the death toll from floods and landslides in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 28 on Monday. Since the ferocious downpours began last … more
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Volunteers from the Baath battalions carry the Syrian flag-wrapped coffin of former Syrian Druze lawmaker Midhat Saleh, allegedly shot by Israeli sniper fire, in Ein el-Tineh, a village along the Israeli frontier in the Golan Heights, during his funeral procession in Jaramana, southeast of Damascus, Syria, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Saleh was born in Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan, and was jailed several times by Israel, most recently for 12 years until 1997. (AP Photo)
Syria buries former lawmaker shot near Israeli border
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A former Syrian lawmaker allegedly felled by Israeli sniper fire was laid to rest Monday in an official funeral attended by hundreds of people near Damascus. Midhat Saleh, … more
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