An international watchdog said Friday that it was removing the United Arab Emirates from its so-called gray list of countries that don’t take full measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.The announcement was made by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force following its meeting in the French capital. The…

Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country’s recent election, which his party alleges was rigged, his party said Friday.Senator Ali Zafar, a top leader from Khan’s Pakistan…

London police confirmed Friday that a body they pulled from the River Thames is that of Abdul Ezedi, a man wanted over a chemical attack that injured his former partner and her two young daughters.The Metropolitan Police said his body was formally identified on Thursday and that his family has…

PARIS (AP) — Angry farmers were back in Paris on their tractors in a new protest Friday demanding more government support and simpler regulations, on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital.Dozens of tractors drove peacefully into Paris carrying flags from Rural Coordination, the farmers’ union…

LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — Osvaldo Romero and his wife got off a battered boat Friday under the scorching sun of central Venezuela and walked up the bank of a river barefoot, their pants soaking wet and eyes showing the shock of having faced days earlier one of the country’s…

From within the debris of Russia’s war, Ukraine’s most famous sculptor was compelled to make a dark artistic pivot the day his own country house was ravaged by a Russian strike.”It happened by accident, it happened when a missile came into our house, our dacha … and my neighbors gathered…

Kenya’s world marathon record holder, Kelvin Kiptum, received a state funeral after dying in a car crash earlier this month.Kiptum and his coach were killed in the crash near Kaptagat, a renowned training base for runners.Dignitaries including President William Ruto and Sebastian Coe attended Kiptum’s burial in Naiberi, near his…

A Vienna court is expected to announce its verdict on Friday in the trial of former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.Kurz is accused of making false statements to a parliamentary probe into alleged corruption during his first government.Kurz resigned in 2021 during a separate corruption probe but his party, the Austrian…

Shamima Begum, who traveled to Syria as a teen to join the Islamic State group, has lost her appeal against the British government’s decision to revoke her U.K. citizenship.Begum, now 24, fled London at 15 to marry an IS fighter in Syria and had three children, all of whom died.Her…

Ursula von der Leyen announced in Warsaw on Friday that the EU will soon decide if it will release billions of euros to Poland.The decision to release $148 billion will be made in Brussels next week.The money would come from the EU’s Next Generation and cohesion funds.The head of the…