Politics

BERLIN (AP) — German police said Monday they have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia that has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years, raking in millions of euros.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — A municipality in northern Alberta is meeting today to discuss a proposed city police force that would replace the RCMP. The Alberta government announced last month that it would give Grande Prairie $9.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — One month after a powerful quake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need adequate shelter and sanitation, and an appeal for $1 billion to assist survivors is only 10% funded, hampering ef

BEIRUT (AP) — When Moheidein Bazazo opened his Beirut mini-market in 1986, during some of the fiercest fighting in Lebanon’s civil war, he didn't expect it to thrive.

TORONTO — A plan designed by two First Nations to build a road to potential mining sites in Ontario's Ring of Fire has been approved by the provincial government, but the mining minister has refused to say when the project would be completed.

GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed experts Monday urged China to improve its courts' independence, share data on COVID-19, suspend construction of coal-fired power plants and “immediately" end human rights violations in its western Xinjiang region.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday that his country faces considerable challenges, but also opportunities, in the coming years as it seeks to transform toward a green economy with a shrinking workforce.

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday it will introduce legislation to ban anyone who arrives in the U.K. in small boats across the English Channel from ever settling in the country.

Madrid (AP) — Spain said Monday it has asked the United States to begin procedures to remove soil contaminated with radioactivity after a mid-air collision dumped four U.S. hydrogen bombs near a southern Spanish village nearly 60 years ago.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Recovery crews in northern Greece cleared the final sections of wreckage from a deadly train collision off the tracks on Monday, as protests and political fallout from the country’s worst ever rail disaster continued.