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The Latest: Notre Dame stabilized, firefighters to withdraw

The Latest on the fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (all times local): 10 p.m. Architects and construction ...

Pilgrims flock to Colosseum Good Friday event, led by pope

Pope Francis and thousands of faithful at a torch-lit Good Friday procession at Rome's Colosseum reflected collectively on ...

Northern Ireland police release video in hunt for killer

Police in Northern Ireland searched for multiple suspects Friday after the fatal shooting of a journalist during rioting in ...

Surprised Nadal sees 'super solid' Djokovic exit Monte Carlo

Surprised at seeing rival Novak Djokovic go out of the Monte Carlo Masters after an error-strewn performance, defending ...

Congo court annuls sentence for exiled opposition leader

A lawyer for Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi says a court has annulled his three-year prison sentence, enabling him to ...

Turkey arrests 2 people suspected of spying for UAE

Turkish authorities on Friday formally arrested two men on charges of spying for the United Arab Emirates, Turkey's state-run ...

Italy, France aim to chart common strategy on violent Libya

The foreign ministers of Italy and France say their countries are trying to forge a common strategy on Libya.

Anger followed Notre Dame grief for yellow vest protesters

For many yellow vest protesters, the stinging sadness that came with the devastating fire at Notre Dame Cathedral has quickly ...

Fire-ravaged Notre Dame now stabilized, firefighters leave

Architects and construction workers have now stabilized the damaged structure of Notre Dame cathedral, four days after a ...

Brazilian tennis player Souza provisionally suspended

Brazilian tennis player Joao Souza has been provisionally suspended again amid a corruption investigation by the Tennis ...

Northern Ireland journalist is killed; police hunt suspects

Police in Northern Ireland said Friday they are searching for multiple suspects in the fatal shooting of a journalist during ...

Odriozola set to miss rest of season with shoulder fracture

Real Madrid right back Alvaro Odriozola has a shoulder fracture and is expected to miss the rest of the season. Madrid says ...

Relatives of German bus crash victims arrive in Madeira

Relatives of some of the 29 German tourists who died in a bus crash in Madeira arrived on the Portuguese island on Friday as ...

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Women cleared of defamation in French sexual misconduct case

A Paris court has dismissed a defamation case against six women who accused a former French lawmaker of sexual misconduct and ...

Simeone backs Costa after striker misses Atletico practice

Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has come out in support of Diego Costa after the Spain striker reportedly refused to ...

Parents say missing Austrian Alpine star 'lived his dream'

The parents of celebrated Austrian climber David Lama said Friday that he had "lived his dream," as hopes he and two other ...

Drunk on smoke: Notre Dame's bees survive cathedral blaze

Hunkered down in their hives and drunk on smoke, Notre Dame's smallest official residents — some 180,000 bees — somehow ...

Name change at heart of North Macedonia election

The first round of presidential elections in North Macedonia on Sunday is seen as a key test for the center-left government's ...

Report: Berlin attacker was part of Europe-wide network

German weekly Der Spiegel says the Tunisian man who carried out a deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market in 2016 ...

Teen climate activist: I enjoy making a difference

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has told a rally of several thousand young people in Rome's Piazza del Popolo they ...