French police on Wednesday removed dozens of migrants, including families with young children, from the forecourt of Paris City Hall as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start of the Olympic Games.Police arrived at dawn to remove about 50 people, mostly women and children aged 3 months…

Rare storms with typhoon-like winds have killed at least seven people in China’s southern Jiangxi province since the weekend, three of them blown out of their high-rise apartments in their sleep.The extreme weather, which began on March 31, has engulfed nine cities including Nanchang and Jiujiang with 93,000 people in…

Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and train service interrupted.Taiwan is no stranger to powerful earthquakes, yet their toll on the high-tech island’s 23 million residents has been…

Mourners gathered outside a southern Finland school Wednesday, a day after a 12-year-old student was accused of fatally shooting a boy and seriously wounding two girls all the same age with a handgun. The suspect, a sixth grader who attended the school, was apprehended less than an hour later.The attack…

The exhibition at Morocco’s Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art showcases Cuban art.It represents one of the first displays of Cuban artwork at an African museum.Themes explored in the exhibition range from isolation and economic embargo to heritage and identity.When Morocco ‘s King Mohamed VI visited Havana in…

Greece has approved the purchase of 35 Blackhawk helicopters from a U.S. defense contractor aimed at modernizing its armed forces.The deal, valued at $1.24 billion, was passed by the parliament’s committee, according to a Greek government official.The Greek government has a multi-billion, 10-year procurement strategy, which involves acquiring up to…

Thai wildlife officials have announced a plan to resolve a decade-long conflict between humans and monkeys in Lopburi, a central Thai city.The monkeys, a local cultural symbol and tourist attraction, have caused dangerous encounters, including injuries to residents and tourists.Authorities aim to relocate around 2,500 urban monkeys to large enclosures…

BANGKOK (AP) — A deputy chief of Thailand’s national police force involved in many high-profile cases turned himself in to fellow officers on Tuesday after a court issued a warrant for his arrest on money laundering charges.Police Gen. Surachate Hakparn had recently been suspended from his duties due to his…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal inaugurated Africa’s youngest elected leader as president on Tuesday, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison to palace within weeks.Last month’s election tested Senegal’s reputation as a stable democracy in West Africa, a region rocked in recent…

President Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall attack that left 144 people dead in the worst assault on Russian soil in two decades, and urged its law enforcement agencies to tighten security at mass gatherings.Putin has repeatedly sought to link the March…