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Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races in the Seine River at the Paris Olympics.

Moscow on Saturday mounted a “counter-terror operation” to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict.

No getting around concerns about the safety of swimming in the long-polluted Seine River, not to mention contending with its strong current.

Shipments of Russian liquified natural gas to France more than doubled the first half of this year, according to new analyses of trade data.

Belgium said it would withdraw from the mixed relay triathlon at the Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill.

Ukraine’s newly arrived F-16 fighter jets were put on display by President Zelensky, who said the planes will boost the country’s war effort.

Ukraine has sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours amid a surge in long-range attacks on Russian targets.

Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday in a Facebook post that its forces struck an airfield in Morozovsk in the Russian mainland.

At least four people died after an apartment block in Russia´s Ural Mountains collapsed following a gas explosion.

Moldova´s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it has expelled a Russian diplomat after two Moldovan officials were detained.

A central Dutch province is urgently warning parents not to take young children to a popular forest area near the city of Utrecht.

Huw Edwards, the BBC’s former top news presenter, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for directing a terrorist group, days after he was convicted in Woolwich Crown Court.

Daily water tests measure levels of fecal bacteria known as E. coli. Efforts to make the river suitable for swimming cost €1.4 billion.

Huw Edwards, a former BBC presenter, has been charged with three counts of making indecent images of children.

Lawmakers from at least six countries said Chinese diplomats were pressuring them not to attend a China-focused conference in Taiwan.

Concerns about the water quality in the Seine River led officials to call off the swimming portion of an Olympic triathlon training session.

Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation.

Ukraine on Sunday said it struck an oil depot in southern Russia that supplies the Kremlin’s troops as Russia struck Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

PARIS — Fans booed a Dutch beach volleyball player convicted of raping an underaged girl as he played his first match at the Paris Olympics, where his controversial selection has put the sport in the spotlight.

Italy’s ancient Roman Appian Way was admitted to the UNESCO World Heritage List on Saturday, becoming the country’s 60th entry on the list.

French railway firm SNCF said it has made progress in restoring high-speed train services after acts of sabotage disrupted three major lines.

Serbia lies on the Balkan migrant route, where people smugglers facilitate border crossings for people seeking to reach Western Europe.

A team of Polish divers has discovered the wreckage of an old sailing ship loaded “to the brim” with luxury goods.

Flights at Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s busiest, suspended as climate activists glued themselves to the ground.

NEW YORK — The man accused of trying to kill the author Salman Rushdie has been charged with terrorism for allegedly acting on behalf of Hezbollah, according to documents unsealed Wednesday.

Climate activists glued themselves to the ground at Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany on Wednesday, cancelling dozens of flights.

The German government on Wednesday banned an organization accused of being an “outpost” of Iran’s theocracy and supporting Hezbollah.

A masked attacker on a moped stabbed and seriously injured a British soldier in daylight near a barracks in southeast England.

A Spanish court handed an 18-year prison sentence to a man, who sent parcels containing bombs, including to the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary was found guilty Tuesday by a London jury of directing a terrorist group.

Britain’s defeated Conservatives will open nominations next week for a new leader to replace former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The head of a banned Belarusian opposition party who had been behind bars for two years was released on Monday as the authoritarian country frees a trickle of political prisoners.

An armed assailant entered a nursing home in central Croatia Monday and opened fire, killing five people and wounding several others.

Russia said Sunday it scrambled fighter jets to intercept two U.S. military long-range bomber aircraft that approached the Russian border.

France deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes, as well as 10,000 soldiers, to Paris for the largest military camp in Paris since World War II.