AP World News

Officials in France say a French soldier has been stabbed outside a big train station in Paris, and the attacker has been arrested

The pet rail project of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador could wind up costing as much as $30 billion

Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine

An Israeli drone strike on a car near the Lebanon-Syria border has killed a prominent Syrian businessman who was sanctioned by the United States and had close ties to the government of Syria’s President Bashar Assad

Armenia has launched joint military drills with the United States

A Taliban official says that a storm that brought heavy rainfall to eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 35 people

Hundreds of people have carried the Olympic torch through the French capital for two days of celebrations before the Summer Games kick off at the end of the month

The European Commission says that the commission president and other top EU officials will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary while the country holds the EU’s rotating presidency

A giant panda has given birth to a cub at a Dutch zoo in a boost to the captive population of the vulnerable mammals

Rio de Janeiro’s state government has launched a mega-operation with a force that includes nearly 2,000 military and civil officers across 10 low income neighborhoods to regain control of areas dominated by organized crime