1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (48+ words) ROME -- The Vatican on Wednesday announced a busy and lengthy foreign travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV in the first half of 2026, confirming the pontiff will visit Monaco, Spain and four African nations -- Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Pope…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (367+ words) ATHENS, Greece -- Greece became the latest European Union country to unveil plans for a total social media ban for children 15 and under in a move the country's prime minister said aims to pressure the 27-member bloc into formalizing EU-wide age…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (730+ words) MADRID -- A diplomatic tussle between the United States and Spain over the war in Iran intensified on Wednesday when the governments exchanged contradictory statements over the possible use of Spanish military bases by American armed forces for operations in the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1004+ words) Z'RATE, Argentina -- The vast field of over 5, 800 electric and hybrid vehicles gleamed on the cargo deck of the BYD Changzhou, a Chinese container vessel unloading Wednesday at a river port in eastern Argentina. In other places, such a scene would…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (538+ words) BARCELONA, Spain -- Spain's Catholic bishops agreed Thursday to let the Spanish government's ombudsman have the final say in the church's compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (315+ words) China will impose tariffs of up to 19. 8% on pork imports from the European Union, a drastic drop from preliminary tariffs of up to 62. 4%, its Commerce Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry's announcement followed an investigation the Chinese side launched into imports…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (29+ words) LISBON, Portugal -- Spain is deploying a further 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have torn through parched woodland during a prolonged spell of scorching weather, Prime Minister Pedro S'nchez. .....

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (618+ words) BARCELONA, Spain -- Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said late Wednesday that the Israeli navy had begun intercepting their vessels as they approach the besieged Palestinian territory. The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg; Nelson Mandela's…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (27+ words) MADRID -- Spain tackled several major wildfires on Tuesday in one of the country's most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, despite temperatures dropping across the Iberian Peninsula....

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (523+ words) MADRID -- Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece battled ongoing wildfires Friday, an important religious holiday in all three countries, as persistent hot, dry conditions challenged efforts to contain the blazes. Spain was fighting 14 major fires, according to Virginia Barcones, general…...