International

EU leaders agree to donate 100 million doses of vaccines

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BRUSSELS — EU leaders agreed Tuesday to donate at least 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to poorer nations by the end of the...

Puerto Rico ends pandemic curfew after a year in force

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico ended a nightly pandemic curfew Monday after more than a year in force and will allow vaccinated...

Mafia fugitive among Italy’s most-wanted arrested in Brazil

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MILAN — Authorities in Brazil have arrested one of Italy’s most-wanted fugitives, a drug boss inside the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta organized crime network who escaped...

Mali’s president and PM remain detained by mutinous soldiers

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BAMAKO, Mali — Mali’s transitional president and prime minister remain detained Tuesday after being taken by force to the military headquarters hours after a...

Dictator or ‘Dad’? Belarus leader suppresses all dissent

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MOSCOW — When Alexander Lukashenko became its president in 1994, Belarus was an obscure country that had not even existed for three years. Over...

Court rules UK surveillance breached European rights law

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LONDON — Europe's top human rights court ruled Tuesday that British mass surveillance and intelligence gathering practices breached human rights laws, in a partial...

UN condemns peacekeeper attacks, urges prosecution, safety

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UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council condemned killings and attacks against U.N. peacekeepers in the strongest terms Monday and called for prompt prosecution of...

Boris Johnson’s former ally Cummings slams UK virus response

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LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being accused of overseeing a chaotic government whose failure to act quickly against the coronavirus caused...

German regulator probes Google’s market position, data use

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BERLIN — German regulators have launched an investigation into Google's position in the market, and how the search engine and advertising giant handles user...

Israel media urge Twitter, Facebook to stop anti-press hate

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JERUSALEM — Major Israeli news outlets Tuesday called on Facebook and Twitter to halt what they said were social media posts inciting violence against...