Facebook Tweet Email Link US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order creating a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” designation meant to penalize countries that wrongfully imprison Americans. The new designation is meant to deter countries from illegally…
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The derailment of a streetcar that is a popular tourist attraction in Portugal’s capital killed 16 people and injured 21 others, emergency services said. At least half the victims were foreigners. Officials called the accident one…
The world during Donald Trump’s second presidency has entered a period of danger with “certain similarities to the 30s”, according to Mitch McConnell, the veteran Republican former Senate leader. McConnell made the comments primarily in reference to tariffs and foreign…
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine’s allies have pledged to deploy troops as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia. Macron spoke after a…
António Azevedo was in central Lisbon early on Wednesday evening, waiting to gather enough tourists for a ride in his tuk-tuk, when he heard what sounded like dozens of glass containers being dropped into rubbish trucks. The driver looked around…
Portugal is in mourning after 16 people were killed and 21 injured when a funicular railway car derailed and crashed on the streets of Lisbon. Witnesses told local media the car appeared out of control as it sped downhill shortly…
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will cut taxes on hundreds of consumer goods ranging from air conditioners to small cars to bolster local consumption, its government said Wednesday, as New Delhi moves to cushion its economy from the blow of…
Authorities in Argentina have recovered an 18th-century painting stolen more than 80 years ago by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a week after it was spotted by chance in a real estate listing. The painting, the…
Emergency services in Lisbon said that at least 15 people were killed and 18 injured on Wednesday in a Gloria funicular railway car derailment in the Portuguese capital. In a statement, the National Institute for Medical Emergencies said that five of…