Europe

Official: Turkey talking to jailed Kurdish leader
Turkey is holding talks with the Kurdish rebels' jailed leader to press the autonomy-seeking guerrilla group to relinquish arms and end its ...
Black boxes examined in fatal Russian plane crash
Investigators on Sunday examined flight recorders and other evidence to try to determine the cause of the airliner crash in Moscow that killed five ...
Spanish police arrest 17 suspected pimps
Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested 17 people on suspicion of smuggling Nigerian women into Spain and forcing them into prostitution ...
4 dead in Moscow airliner crash
A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces ...
Russian FM says Assad won't go
Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to ...
Spaniard jailed in Cuba flies home to finish term
A Spaniard sentenced in Cuba to prison for the death of a prominent dissident arrived back in Spain on Saturday to serve the rest of his four-year ...
C. African Republic neighbors to send help
Central African Republic's neighbors agreed on Friday to dispatch a contingent of soldiers to intervene in the troubled country, where a coalition of ...
Curacao police arrest 7 in $11.5M gold bar heist
Police in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao have arrested seven suspects in connection with the recent heist of 70 gold bars worth an estimated ...
Putin signs anti-US adoptions bill
President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, abruptly terminating the prospects for more than 50 ...
New registry: Germans own 5.5M legal firearms
Germany's new national firearms registry shows there are 5.5 million guns in legal circulation in the country. That's an average of four weapons for ...
Official acquitted in Russian jail death case
The only official charged with the death of a Russian whistleblowing lawyer walked free on Friday after a Moscow court acquitted him of negligence, ...
Russia reaches out to Syrian coalition
Russia's foreign minister says Moscow has proposed talks with the main Syrian opposition coalition, despite Russia's previous criticism of Western ...
Report: Berlusconi to pay 2nd wife ?3M a month
An Italian newspaper has reported the details of the divorce settlement between ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi and his second wife Veronica Lario, ...
AP Exclusive: Documents raise doubts in Nazi probe
The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed ...
Turkish journalist released from jail
A Turkish court on Thursday freed a prominent journalist from prison pending the outcome of a trial that has raised fears for press freedoms in ...
Spain: DNA tests for illegal immigrant children
Spain plans to take DNA samples from illegal immigrant children arriving in the country's North African enclave of Melilla to make sure the adults ...
Pony back with circus after Christmas kidnap
A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped by a woman who wanted to give her sick daughter a ...
Germany: Suspected Islamists attack Indian student
Police say an Indian student in Germany has been attacked and injured by suspected Islamic extremists who accosted him and demanded that he convert ...
Muslim cleric killed in Russia's North Caucasus
Police says a Muslim spiritual leader in Russia's republic of North Ossetia has been gunned down as he was driving home. Local police spokesman Dmitry ...
Spain seizes 11 tons of hashish, makes 35 arrests
Spanish police seized 11 metric tons (12.1 U.S. tons) of hashish smuggled from Morocco on trucks with fuel tanks rigged to hide the drugs and arrested ...
Pope's Christmas message focuses on Mideast, China
In his Christmas message to the world Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations ...
Ukraine police helicopter crashes, killing 5
A police helicopter belonging to Ukraine's Interior Ministry crashed shortly after takeoff Tuesday in the central part of the country, killing five ...
2 Greek men arrested for attacks on 3 migrants
Greek police say they have arrested two Athens men who attacked three Bangladeshi migrants in separate incidents. Police say the two 22-year-olds were ...
Sweden: Foreigner angered over gray Santa outfit
Police in Sweden had to intervene after a foreign visitor to a spa and conference center grew angry because a visiting Santa Claus was wearing a gray ...