Portugal’s parliament rejects bills legalizing euthanasia

LISBON, Portugal – Portuguese lawmakers Tuesday narrowly rejected a proposal to make Portugal one of only a handful of countries in the world allowing euthanasia and...

US: Florida mall bomb plotter deserves 20 years in prison

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors say a Honduran man deserves 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to detonate a bomb in a Florida mall...

US companies uneasy about Trump threat but hope for progress

BEIJING — American companies in China are uneasy about Washington’s threat of export and investment controls in a trade dispute with Beijing but see them as...

Russia criticized at UN over Ukraine conflict, Crimea, crash

UN urges Syria to allow aid to 2 million in desperate need

The U.N. humanitarian chief on Tuesday urged the Syrian government primarily but also some rebel groups to allow the delivery of aid to more than 2...

France: Macron rewards migrant hero who saved dangling child

PARIS -President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a...

EU wants new Venezuela election, prepares more sanctions

BRUSSELS -European leaders on Monday called for a new presidential election in Venezuela, saying they will “swiftly” levy a new round of sanctions targeting those close...

Serge Dassault, French aviation industrialist, dies at 93

PARIS-French business executive Serge Dassault, a top aviation and arms industrialist and one of France’s richest men, died Monday in his Paris office. He was 93....

Embattled Spanish PM to face no confidence vote this week

MADRID – Spain’s parliament agreed Monday to subject Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to a vote of no confidence this week in the wake of graft convictions...

Australia holds hope MH370 will be found as last search ends

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia said Tuesday that it was holding out hope that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would one day be found, as the last search...