PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron pushed on Monday for Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense, saying the continent's security shouldn't rely so much on the United States and could even include discussions with Russia.
UK's prime minister is visiting Africa for the first time as national leader in a bid to boost trade ties ahead of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
TEHERAN - The defense ministers of Iran and Syria have signed an agreement on military cooperation and reconstruction in the war-torn country, Iranian media reported on Monday.
WASHINGTON - As the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct began snaring politicians, state legislatures across the United States vowed to re-examine their policies to prevent harassment and beef up investigations into complaints of sexual wrongdoing.
TOKYO - The plight of a lonely dolphin and dozens of penguins that have been abandoned in a derelict aquarium in Japan since the start of the year sparked protests this week, with activists and ordinary Japanese alike calling for the animals to be saved.
SAN FRANCISCO - Time and again, Chinese-American students consistently delivered top academic scores, only to be denied admission to their dream school. Parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - There was no dividing them. The folk song Arirang played and the "unification" flag was raised to celebrate the first gold medal by an inter-Korean team at a major multisport event.
SAINT-MALO, France - With a gaping hole in the ground and tangled corn stalks strewed across Yves Rolland's field, it looks as if it has been hit by a tornado. He already knows who the culprits are.
SYDNEY - An unknown number of people were believed to be on the run in a crocodile-infested swamp in northeastern Australia after a fishing boat ran aground on Sunday, authorities and reports said.
NEW YORK - Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and his Brighton Beach trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died. He was 91.
CATANIA, Italy - Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the migrants' ordeal and a bitter standoff between Rome's anti-establishment government and its European Union partners.
TEHERAN - A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early on Sunday, killing two people and injuring hundreds, officials said.
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