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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says it will further tighten its restrictions on the entry of people from Russia, saying those with tourist visas issued by Norway before regulations were tightened in 2022 or issued by another European country will be barred from entering the Scandinavian country as of next week. Justice Minister Emilie Enger

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign. Voters on July 4 will decide whether to end the governing Conservatives’ 14 years in power and hand the opposition Labour Party the reins of government. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile has splashed down in the waters of the Red Sea, but caused no damage to a passing commercial vessel in an attack likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The Houthis did not immediately claim the attack Thursday, though it can take hours or even days for

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say a deputy chief of the military general staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery. The arrest of Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin reported Thursday was the latest in a series of bribery arrests of high-ranking military officials. Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov, a former top commander in Russia’s

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent request by Mexico to order Ecuador to protect Mexican diplomatic property in the aftermath of the storming of the embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president. The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico granted asylum to

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019. South Korea’s presidential office said Thursday that the meeting among South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio

By NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court has accepted a petition from members of the country’s outgoing Senate to consider suspending Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office over his appointment of a Cabinet member. If eventually found guilty, Srettha could be ousted from his position. The court ruled that Srettha’s appointment

By DAVID McHUGH and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Ukraine’s allies are looking for ways to squeeze money out of frozen Russian assets and use the money to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion. The Russian central bank holdings were kept outside the country, and Western countries quickly froze them after the

By CLAIRE RUSH and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press French President Emmanuel Macron pushed Thursday on a visit to riot-hit New Caledonia for the removal of protesters’ barricades and said police sent in to help battle deadly unrest in the French Pacific archipelago “will stay as long as necessary,” even as security services back in France

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The leader of Bosnia’s Serb-controlled territory has reiterated a threat to secede from the Balkan country, a day ahead of a U.N. vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. Relatives of the victims,

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took office this week. China’s military said its two-day exercises around Taiwan were punishment for separatist forces seeking

By ALBERTO MENDOZA Associated Press SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA, Mexico (AP) — A strong gust of wind toppled the stage at a campaign rally Wednesday evening in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, killing at least nine people — including a child — and injuring 63, the state’s governor said. The collapse occurred during

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019. South Korea’s presidential office announced Thursday that the trilateral summit among South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will take place

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Thursday prepared to inter its late president at the holiest site for Shiite Muslims in the Islamic Republic, a final sign of respect for a protégé of Iran’s supreme leader killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. President Ebrahim Raisi’s burial

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Walk around multicultural metropolises like Paris or Marseille, or any small village in the French countryside, and signs of faith are everywhere. Many Muslim women wear headscarves and historical Catholic churches anchor nearly every neighborhood. But France’s principle of “laïcité,” loosely translated as “secularism,” means no

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France’s unique approach to “laïcité” — loosely translated as “secularism” — has been increasingly stirring controversy from schools to sports fields across the country. The struggle cuts to

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. is scheduled to vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, a prospect that has sparked vehement opposition from Serbs who fear it will brand them all as “genocidal” supporters of

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said it scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took office this week. China’s military said its two-day exercises around Taiwan were punishment for separatist forces seeking independence. Beijing claims