WORLD NEWS

The U.N. refugee agency director says Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion has shown that it’s possible to welcome large numbers of asylum-seekers.

Russian fans of Starbucks coffee shops are getting the chance to see if a homegrown successor can measure up.

A Colombian guerrilla group says it has freed six captive members of the security forces in a goodwill gesture ahead of planned peace talks with the government of new President Gustavo Petro.

The Vatican says a preliminary church investigation into sexual assault allegations by a Canadian woman against a top cardinal has determined the case doesn’t warrant further investigation.

New coronavirus cases reported globally in the last week dropped by nearly a quarter while deaths fell by 6%.

Estonia’s foreign minister has defended his country’s decision to bar Russian tourists, saying they are shirking their “moral responsibility” to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its “genocidal war” in Ukraine.

Unchecked development has hit the once laid back beach town of Tulum on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Finland’s prime minister has ruled out taking any drugs during a “wild” party in a private home.

The Dubai-based airline Emirates says it will suspend all flights to Nigeria from September 1 because the West African country has failed to repatriate millions of dollars of its funds.

The Russian military has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s Kaliningrad region.

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo didn't reach an agreement on longstanding border and mutual recognition issues that have spiked tensions in the Balkans and added to Europe’s instability during the war in Ukraine.

Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate despite inflation surging to nearly 80% and making it difficult for people to buy what they need.

Algeria's civil protection agency says wildfires raging in the country's east have killed at least 37 people and wounded 161 others.

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences.

Thousands of Unification Church followers have rallied in South Korea protesting negative Japanese media coverage after the suspect in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe blamed the church for his family’s troubles.

A Taliban police spokesman in Afghanistan’s capital says the toll from a mosque bombing the previous evening has risen to 21 people killed with 33 others wounded in the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met the U.N. chief and Turkey’s leader in Ukraine.

The U.S. government will hold talks with Taiwan on a trade agreement in a sign of support for the self-ruled island democracy China claims as its own territory.

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, has met with the head of its military-installed government and urged him to halt all violence and support a political path back to civilian rule and democracy, Heyzer also called on Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to allow the country’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to return home and to meet with her.

France is being whipped by violent storms that have flooded Paris subway stations, snarled traffic and disrupted the president’s agenda.

Like other Brazilians, residents of the Amazon will elect governors and lawmakers in general elections in October.

Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as the country awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga.

Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island.

Egypt’s central bank governor has resigned as the country has struggled to address its economic woes.