AP World News

A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily has been beatified by the Roman Catholic church, the last formal step before possible sainthood

An investigative report by British media says that Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, was willing to use his royal status for personal profit and to seek favors from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin

More than 1,200 migrants in decrepit, overcrowded fishing boats have reached a tiny Italian island in a 12-hour span

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Paris and other French cities to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change

Police have given the go-ahead to the annual Jerusalem Day parade, a flag-waving nationalist display of Israeli claims to all of the contested city

Grieving families are burying their dead following a horrific bombing at a girls’ school in the Afghan capital that killed 50 people, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old

The EU Commission did not renew its order for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine

Germany  is commemorating the 100th birthday of Sophie Scholl, a young woman who became an icon for her role in the anti-fascist ‘White Rose’ resistance group

Slovakia’s government is set to discuss the possible use of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine with Russia after it was successfully tested in a Hungarian lab

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the U.K.’s devolved nations for crisis talks on the union after Scotland’s pro-independence party won its fourth straight parliamentary election