French prosecutors raid Paris big banks in tax fraud sweep
French prosecutors said the offices of five Paris banks were raided on Tuesday as part of a widening investigation into a four-continent fraud. As The New York Times reports, ...
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French protests intensify in test for Macron; police bolster security amid warnings radicals seek ‘to destroy’
More than 13,000 officers were deployed across France on Tuesday as protests against pension reforms intensified in a test for President Emmanuel Macron. The Associated Press ...
Netanyahu throws shade on Biden after president says he’s ‘very concerned’ about Israel’s judicial reforms
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at President Biden on Tuesday over his criticism of Israel’s proposed judicial overhaul, which has ignited waves of ...
Pakistan bows out of US-led summit in potential move to woo China
Pakistan announced on Tuesday it would not participate in a US-led democracy summit this week, a move seen by the impoverished Islamic nation as an attempt to appease longtime ...
14 Cameroonians rescued after boat capsizes in Caribbean, killing 3
At least 14 people from the African nation of Cameroon were rescued from waters in the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday, but three were dead and 13 others were missing, St ...
El Salvador’s gang crackdown stretches to one-year mark with no sign of slowing
El Salvador passed the one-year mark on Tuesday since the gang-infested nation began cracking down on organized crime under an emergency order that was originally intended to ...
France refuses to extradite far-left Italian terrorists who have eluded justice since 1980s
France’s supreme court ruled Tuesday against extradition of 10 former far-left terrorists convicted of attacks in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. Two women and eight men ...
Mossad thwarts ‘imminent’ attack on Jewish restaurant in Greece, ‘extensive’ loss of life
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Tuesday that his country’s intelligence agency Mossad helped Greece prevent a terrorist attack against at ...
German police arrest man who attacked 3 people with hand grenade, knife
German police said on Saturday they have arrested a 61-year-old man after three people were injured in a grenade and knife attack in Berlin. Police said the attacker detonated ...
African pirates hijack oil tanker, capture 16 crewmembers off Congolese coast
Pirates have boarded a Liberian-flagged oil tanker with 16 crew members in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, the Danish ship’s owner said Tuesday. The attack took ...
China installs new ambassador in North Korea, one of few in the country
The People’s Republic of China has appointed a new ambassador to North Korea. Ambassador Wang Yajun reportedly arrived in North Korea on Monday to begin his tenure in ...
Boat capsizes off Caribbean island of St. Kitts kills1, 16 others missing
One person was killed and 16 are missing after a boat capsized early Tuesday off the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Kitts. The officers provided this information. According ...
Family of Americans kidnapped by gang in Haiti urged them not to make the trip amid spike in violence
The family of an American couple kidnapped and held for ransom in Haiti says they urged the two not to travel to the impoverished island nation. “We were very concerned ...
Newborn tragically dies from amateur medical procedure popular among some migrants
A baby boy has died in Italy from possible bleeding caused by an attempted circumcision at home, local officials said. Authorities in Rome arrested two women of Nigerian ...
Canadian crypto prodigy accused of scamming investors out of millions was kidnapped, ‘tortured’: reports
Canada’s self-proclaimed crypto king, accused of defrauding investors and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, was allegedly abducted in the middle of the ...
Fire at Mexico migrant facility near US border leaves 39 dead, officials say
At least three dozen migrants have died in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the US border, Mexican officials said. Mexico’s National ...
‘Lawless’ Haiti plagued by corruption, and deadly gang violence fuels humanitarian crisis
The situation in Haiti has become so dire that the US, Canada and the United Nations have once again turned their attention to the Caribbean nation as gang violence reaches ...
Late Queen Elizabeth II asked Germany for 2 expensive horses when she visited the country in 1978
Two horses fit for a queen, please. That’s what Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II asked for as a gift during her state visit to Germany in 1978, the weekly Der Spiegel ...
Russia fires nuclear-capable, anti-ship missiles in Sea of Japan during simulated attack
Russia fired several anti-ship missiles into the Sea of Japan, according to its defense ministry. Moscow said on Tuesday its military was conducting a simulated missile ...
CS Lewis, Tolkien, Orwell among works tagged as triggers for ‘far-right’ extremism by anti-terrorism group
A government counter-terrorism unit in the UK has reportedly flagged prominent English literature as a potential trigger for right-wing extremism – led by an author ...
Anti-government protests break out in Kenya despite government’s declaration that protests are illegal
Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Monday despite the government declaring that the protests are illegal. ...
France’s Louvre Museum closes to public as pension reform protestors block the entrance
Glow The Louvre museum in Paris was closed to the public on Monday after its staff took part in a wave of French protests against the government’s unpopular pension ...
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister reverses decision to delay the start of daylight saving
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister reversed an unpopular decision made by his office to delay the start of daylight saving time by a month, with the cabinet on Monday ...
Israel’s Netanyahu agrees to halt judicial reform for now as mass protests continue
JERUSALEM — Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached an agreement with his national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to postpone his ...
Brazilian teacher, 71, stabbed to death by student, 5 others wounded
A 13-year-old student killed a 71-year-old teacher and wounded three teachers and two fellow students in a knife attack in Brazil’s largest city, state officials said. ...
Russia warns Armenia against siding with ICC after Putin arrest warrant: ‘serious consequences’
Russia is warning Armenia of “serious consequences” if it were to go through with plans to become a member state of the International Criminal Court. The state-run ...
American couple kidnapped by Haitian gang, family begs for release
Niki’s Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see her sister’s text message. All she knew at the time was that her brother and his wife, who live in the US, ...
Scotland elects first Muslim leader, Humza Yousaf, descendant of Pakistani immigrants
Hamza Yusuf, a Muslim and the descendant of Pakistani immigrants, was on Monday chosen by Scotland’s ruling party as the country’s next leader. Glasgow-born ...
2 Austrian police officers injured by climate protestors outside conference, 143 detained
close Video Fox News Flash March 27 top headlines Here are the top headlines from Fox News Flash. See what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Protesters tried to break through a ...
Rebels kill at least 17 people in troubled eastern Congo
Local officials said on Monday that at least 17 people were killed by rebels in eastern Congo. The men were abducted while driving off the road and killed by the Codeco ...
