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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work at a damaged building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Photo)

Russia hits Ukraine’s power grid with a ‘massive’ attack on a day marking the WWII defeat of Nazism

Ukraine’s president says Russia has launched a massive nighttime attack on energy facilities across Ukraine, targeting seven regions with more than 50 missiles and drones.
 
Ukrainian Anastasiya Sereda paints a canvas in an art class for women bereaved by war, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Grit, humor, grief and gloom mix as Ukrainians face a dangerous new phase in the war

 
Franziska Giffey Berlin's top economic official speaks to media after an event about solar energy in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Giffey, the former Mayor of Berlin was violently assaulted at an event in a Berlin library and had to be treated in the hospital on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, adding to the list of the elected officials who have been exposed to brutal attacks in Germany recently. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Another German politician is attacked as concerns rise over violence ahead of EU elections in June

 
A woman walks in front of a crater caused by a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

EU reaches a tentative deal on Ukraine aid coming from profits of frozen Russian assets

 
FILE - Medical staff prepares an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during preparations at the vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany, Monday, March 22, 2021. The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that its European authorization for its COVID vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, FILE)

AstraZeneca pulls its COVID vaccine from European market

 
Students gather for a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Earlier on Tuesday, Dutch police broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam. Police spokeswoman Sara Tillart said about 140 protesters were arrested, two of whom remain in custody on suspicion of committing public violence. (AP Photo/Aleksandar Furtula)

Police break up another protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam

In sometimes violent confrontations, police have broken up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza.
 
Workers prepare for the arrival of the Olympic flame in the Old Port of Marseille in southern France, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Olympic torch will finally enter France when it reaches the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Olympic torch begins journey across France after festive welcome in port city of Marseille

Tens of thousands welcomed the Olympic torch in the southern French city of Marseille, marking another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris.
 
FILE - An empty view of the landmark martyrs monument which is seen empty after orders of home confinement to prevent the spread of coronavirus, in Algiers, Algeria, on March 24, 2020. While France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis on Wednesday May 8, 2024, Algeria commemorated a more somber anniversary: that of a crackdown by French colonial forces on Algerian independence activists, on that same day 79 years ago. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, File)

Algeria’s leader demands justice over French colonial-era wrongdoing

France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis, while Algeria commemorated a crackdown by French colonial forces on Algerian independence activists.
 
Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, presidential candidate backed by the opposition center-right VMRO-DPMNE party, casts her ballot at a polling station in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Voters in North Macedonia were casting ballots on Wednesday in a parliamentary election and a presidential runoff dominated by issues including the country's path toward European Union membership, corruption and the economy. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

North Macedonia elects first woman president as center-left incumbents suffer historic losses

North Macedonia has elected its first woman president as the governing Social Democrats suffered historic losses in twin presidential and parliamentary elections.
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic greet the crowd at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

China and EU-candidate Serbia sign an agreement to build a ‘shared future’

China and European Union candidate Serbia have signed an agreement to build a “shared future” between the two states, making the Balkan country the first in Europe to agree on such a document with Beijing.
 
FILE - The Ottawa, Ontario, headquarters of Canadian e-commerce company Shopify is seen, May 29, 2019. Shopify's stock is poised to potentially tumble to an all-time low Wednesday, May 8, 2024, as the company gave a disappointing second-quarter forecast that includes easing revenue growth and thinner margins. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Shopify’s shares tumble on weak outlook after a very strong start to 2024

Shopify’s stock is poised to potentially tumble to an all-time low on Wednesday as the Canadian company gave a disappointing second-quarter forecast that includes easing revenue growth and thinner margins.
 

Kosovo prime minister deplores new condition ahead of Council of Europe’s membership vote next week

Kosovo’s prime minister has deplored the fact that some Western powers reportedly have set another condition ahead of Kosovo’s joining the Council of Europe.
 
Kosovo's foreign minister and deputy prime minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 8, 2024. Kosovo's foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine in order for conflict not to spread further in Europe, stressing that her young nation's support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo's independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says

Kosovo’s foreign minister says her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine for conflict not to spread further in Europe.
 

Lithuania defends banning Russian and Belarusian observers from monitoring upcoming election

Lithuania has defended the decision not to allow Russian and Belarusian observers to monitor its upcoming presidential election, accusing both countries of spearheading campaigns that “pose a threat to our national security.”
 
Prime Minister incumbent Andrej Plenkovic celebrates after claiming victory in a parliamentary election in Zagreb, Croatia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Croatia's governing conservatives convincingly won a highly contested parliamentary election Wednesday, but will still need support from far-right groups to stay in power, according to the official vote count. The election followed a campaign that centered on a bitter rivalry between the country's president and prime minister. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Croatia ruling conservatives will form government with a far-right group after inconclusive election

Croatia’s ruling conservatives have agreed to form a coalition with an extreme party, which would push the country further to the right ahead of next month’s European parliamentary election.
 
FILE - This photo taken and released by Basmanny District Court press service on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, shows Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov standing in a defendants' cage in court in Moscow, Russia. A Moscow court on Wednesday rejected an appeal of the bribery arrest of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, whose lawyers sought to have him released from jail into house arrest. Ivanov, who was in charge of military construction projects, was arrested on April 23 and charged with accepting bribes on a large scale. (Basmanny District Court press service via AP, File)

Moscow court rejects appeal to move to house arrest a deputy defense minister facing bribery charges

A Moscow court rejected an appeal filed by a Russian deputy defense minister’s lawyers who sought to have him moved from prison to house arrest as he faces bribery charges.
 

Poland detains and questions Russian man who illegally crossed from Belarus

Poland’s security officials say that a 41-year-old man from Russia has been detained and is being questioned after illegally crossing in from Russia’s ally Belarus.
 
FILE - Migrants walk in Lampedusa Island, Italy, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and less than 15% of those interviewed across the globe consider climate change to be among the top three priorities for their government, a global study revealed on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro, File)

Europeans want governments to focus more on curbing migration than climate change, a study says

Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and few of those interviewed across the globe consider climate to be among the top three priorities for their government.
 

A cargo plane make an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after front landing gear fails

A cargo aircraft has made an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after its front landing gear failed.
 
FILE - Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 9, 2023. Swift is scheduled to kick off the 18-city Europe leg of her record-setting Eras Tour on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Fans are following Taylor Swift to Europe after finding Eras Tour tickets less costly there

Thousands of Taylor Swift fans are following her across the pond after missing out on her U.S. concert tour last year or being put off by marked-up ticket prices.
 
FILE - Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, right, addresses journalists at the end of the Arraiolos Group meeting in Porto, Portugal, Oct. 6, 2023. Italy’s president told the General Assembly on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored. (AP Photo/Miguel Angelo Pereira, File)

Italy’s president says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding Moscow’s aggression

Italy’s president says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored.
 
FILE - Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski addresses reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024. Polish prosecutors opened an investigation Monday, May 6, after a Polish judge fled to the autocratic state of Belarus and asked for protection there. Sikorski described the judge as a traitor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland’s Tusk calls secret services meeting to address judge’s defection to Belarus

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he is calling a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian and Belarusian influence.
 

An Italian governor accused in a corruption probe has been placed under house arrest

The governor of the Italian region surrounding the port city of Genoa has been placed under house arrest as part of a corruption investigation.
 
FILE - This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground in Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the military will hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons – the first time such exercise was publicly announced by Moscow. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Belarus launches nuclear drills a day after Russia announces them amid tensions with West

Belarus has launched drills involving missiles and warplanes capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons.
 
iolanda of Portugal perform the song Grito during the first semi-final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

The Eurovision Song Contest kicked off with pop and protests as the war in Gaza casts a shadow

Competition in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday in Sweden. The war in Gaza is casting a shadow over the sequin-spangled pop extravaganza.
 
FILE - Joan Torrent, 64, walks toward his house carrying two plastic jugs of water refilled at a natural spring in Gualba, about 50 km, (31 miles) northwest of Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024. Spain’s Catalonia region will ease restrictions on water use for a wide area including Barcelona after recent rainfall palliated a prolonged drought, regional authorities said Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Rainfall allows Spain’s Catalonia to ease water restrictions for 1st time during drought

Authorities in Spain’s Catalonia region say they will ease restrictions on water use for a wide area including Barcelona after recent rainfall palliated a prolonged drought.
 
FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Ukraine says it foiled a Russian spy agency plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy

Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators say they have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures.
 

Suspected bugging equipment in room where Polish Cabinet was to meet said to be an old sound system

A Polish official said bugging devices were found in a room where the Polish Cabinet was scheduled to meet, but another official later said the equipment was part of an old sound system in the building.
 
FILE - Parliament members attend a session at the European Parliament, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. EU countries rubberstamped a plan worth six billion euros ($6.45 billion) in support of Western Balkans states Tuesday, May 7, 2024, aimed at accelerating reforms and economic growth in the region, in view of their future membership to the bloc. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

EU Council adopts a plan worth 6 billion euros for Western Balkans to speed up enlargement process

EU countries have approved a plan worth 6 billion euros ($6.45 billion) to support Western Balkan states aimed at accelerating reforms and economic growth in the region, as they seek future membership in the bloc.
 
FILE - Former President Boris Yeltsin, left, smiles as he talks to Russian acting President and Premier Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Russia, Dec. 31, 1999. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Key events of Vladimir Putin’s 24 years in power in Russia

Throughout his 24 years in power in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has launched wars, cracked down on the political opposition and LGBTQ+ activists, stifled most independent media and consolidated his power by engineering changes to the constitution to extend his rule.
 
Security officers gather in a corridor after searching the office of German MEP Maximilian Krah at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday May, 7, 2024. Germany's top prosecutor's office says that authorities are searching the European parliament office of Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party's top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections. Krah, has been under scrutiny after an assistant of his was arrested last month on suspicion of spying for China. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Police search Brussels office of prominent far-right German lawmaker over China spying allegations

Germany’s top prosecutor’s office says authorities are searching the European Parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels.
 

American is sentenced to 10 days in jail for reportedly breaking into a Russian children’s library

An American English-language tutor has been arrested in Moscow on hooliganism charges for reportedly breaking into a children’s library while intoxicated and has been sentenced to 10 days in jail.
 
FILE - Britain's Defence Secretary Grant Shapps arrives in Downing Street for a cabinet meeting in London, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system. The Ministry of Defense said Defense Secretary Grant Shapps would make a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, afternoon “setting out the multi-point plan to support and protect personnel.” (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

The UK says a huge payroll data breach by a ‘malign actor’ has exposed details of military personnel

British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system.
 
A young woman looks on during a pro-Palestinians demonstration by the group "Student Coalition Berlin" in the theater courtyard of the 'Freie Universität Berlin' university in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Pro-Palestinian activists occupied a courtyard of the Free University in Berlin on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Pro-Palestinian student protests spread across Europe. Some are allowed. Some are stopped

Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists have spread across Europe as some call for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza.
 
Giant portraits of Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the center-right main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, are displayed on a building in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Monday, May 6, 2024. Voters go to the polls on Wednesday in North Macedonia to cast ballots for parliamentary election and presidential runoff, for the second time in two weeks. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

North Macedonia holds presidential and parliamentary elections Wednesday

Voters in Northern Macedonia go to the polls Wednesday for a double election — presidential and parliamentary.
 
Vladimir Putin walks to take his oath as Russian president during an inauguration ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Putin begins his fifth term as president, more in control of Russia than ever

Vladimir Putin began his fifth term as Russian president at a glittering Kremlin ceremony, after destroying his political opposition, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and consolidating power.
 
FILE - Russian Permanent Representative to the U.N. Vassily Nebenzia addresses members of the U.N. Security Council during a meeting on Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at the United Nations headquarters. Russia has defended its veto of a U.N. resolution calling on all nations to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space. Nebenzia, on Monday, May 6, accused the West of planning for the military exploration of outer space, including the deployment of weapons. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Russia defends veto of UN resolution to prohibit nukes in outer space, urges vote to ban all weapons

Russia on Monday defended its veto of a U.N. resolution urging all nations to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space, challenging the U.S., Japan and their Western allies to support Moscow’s rival resolution calling for a ban on all weapons in space “for all time.”
 
FILE - Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza gestures standing in a glass cage in a courtroom during announcement of the verdict on appeal at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, on July 31, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Russia critic Kara-Murza wins Pulitzer for passionate columns written from prison cell

A critic who has written passionate columns as a contributor for The Washington Post from his prison cell in Russia has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
 

Jordan stations 2 firefighting helicopters in Cyprus to help as summer fire season arrives

Jordan has stationed two helicopters in Cyprus to help the Mediterranean island nation combat potential forest fires until it can lease firefighting aircraft of its own for the summer fire season.
 

Turkey says it has carried out new airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

Turkey’s defense ministry says the country has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq.