BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her conservative party on Monday that she is prepared to step down as party leader, but will remain as chancellor following a pair of state election debacles, German media reported, in the clearest sign yet that the leader is preparing her eventual exit after voters again punished her fragile coalition in a regional poll.
DAMASCUS - Syrian officials, foreign archaeologists and restoration specialists attended the reopening ceremony of the Syria's National Museum in the heart of Damascus on Sunday, more than six years after the prominent institution was shut down and emptied as the country's civil war encroached on the capital.
TOKYO - Japan's Princess Ayako married a commoner in a ritual-filled ceremony on Monday at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine.
Washington's intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has increased Moscow's worry over the future of another major arms reduction agreement between the two countries.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's government launched a one-month auction on Monday for a luxury yacht bought with money stolen from the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund.
A Chinese amateur photographer has scooped a major award in the world's largest astronomy photography contest and will have his work showcased in an exhibition at Royal Museums Greenwich in London.
WASHINGTON - A man with a criminal history and a fervor for President Donald Trump sent at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats, Justice Department officials said, crediting DNA, a fingerprint match and misspellings for the key break in a case that spread fear of election-season violence with little precedent in the United States.
BANGKOK - Hair pulled back tightly as she lounges on her red scooter, Ar is a rare sight among the male-dominated ranks of Bangkok's motortaxi riders plying their trade in the Thai capital.
ROME - Italy's capital is solidifying its status of one of the deadliest cities in Europe for pedestrians, with poor infrastructure, inadequate public transport, a lack of law enforcement officials on the streets all contributing to a high death toll.
BERLIN - German nurse Niels Hoegel, already serving a lengthy term for previous killings, will go on trial before anguished relatives on Tuesday over the murders of around 100 more people - a spree prosecutors say is unprecedented in the postwar period.
The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany called for a political solution to Syria's devastating seven-year civil war and a lasting cease-fire in the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib after a four-way summit held over the weekend.
DUBLIN - Ireland has voted to lift a rarely enforced constitutional ban on blasphemy in the latest secular reform for the once staunchly Catholic country, referendum results showed on Saturday.
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