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VISBY, Sweden — Sheep, churches and small-town amenities abound on Sweden’s largest island. A sense of geopolitical tension? Not so much.

But if Sweden’s political and military leaders are to be believed, Gotland today marks the first line of defense against a foe whose powerful Baltic fleet anchors just 200 …

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) – As the remnants of Hurricane Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama.

It will be days before the …

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Secretary of State Kim Wyman has been reelected to a third term, continuing a more than five-decade trend of Republicans holding that office and becoming the lone statewide elected Republican on the West Coast.

With nearly 53% of the vote, she defeated Democratic state Rep. Gael …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Suddenly Ethiopia appears on the brink of civil war, threatening the stability of one of the world’s most strategic regions, the Horn of Africa, and the fracturing of one of Africa’s most powerful and populous countries.

But the crisis in Ethiopia, a key U.S. security ally, …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Memories of the Bosnian War are shaping Zdenka Sutalo’s perception of the coronavirus.

The 58-year-old unemployed woman attends group therapy sessions to work through the trauma of the 1992-95 conflict. As a young woman in Sarajevo, she endured bombardment, hunger, electricity shortages and was forced to …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Ethiopia’s prime minister on Friday defended military operations against the country’s well-armed Tigray region, asserting that months of patiently trying to resolve differences have “failed” because of the regional leadership’s “criminal hubris and intransigence.”

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in a brief statement on Twitter asserted that …

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s spending watchdog warned Friday that there is likely to be “significant disruption” to trade with the European Union at the start of next year even if a trade deal between the two sides is agreed in time.

The National Audit Office, which assesses government spending, noted …

Emmanuel Macron says his country “won’t surrender” after a knife attack against three people that left one “virtually beheaded.”

The French president quickly blasted the “Islamist terrorist attack” that also killed another woman and man.

“I say it with great clarity once again today: we won’t surrender anything,” Mr. Macron …

French officials were on high alert Thursday after a knife-wielding assailant shouting “Allahu akbar” killed three churchgoers in the Mediterranean city of Nice, fueling an already bitter national debate about free speech, terrorism and the place of Islam in a fiercely secular democracy.

The attack, which took place inside Nice’s …

Emmanuel Macron says his country “won’t surrender” after a knife attack against three people that left one “virtually beheaded.”

The French president quickly blasted the “Islamist terrorist attack” that also killed another woman and man.

“I say it with great clarity once again today: we won’t surrender anything,” Mr. Macron …