Simon Harris became Ireland’s youngest-ever prime minister on Tuesday and vowed to bring “new ideas, a new energy and a new empathy to public life.”Harris, 37, succeeds Fine Gael Party colleague Leo Varadkar, who announced his resignation nearly three weeks ago, and takes the reins of a government that is facing…

Greek authorities launched a ban on paper tickets for all league soccer matches on Tuesday as part of an effort to crack down on the violence that has plagued the sport for decades.Under new rules, fans will only be allowed into stadiums using their cellphones and displaying a government-issued QR…

ROME (AP) — Police on Monday arrested a Tajik national accused of being an active member of the Islamic State group after he landed at Rome’s international airport on a flight from the Netherlands, authorities said.WHAT ISIS MEANS WHEN IT SAYS IT WILL ‘CONQUER ROME’ An international arrest warrant accused…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Streams of Palestinians filed into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Monday to salvage what they could from the vast destruction left in the wake of Israel’s offensive, a day after the Israeli military announced it was withdrawing troops from the area.Those…

Taiwan’s annual war game exercises this year will feature simulating a scenario in which China turns one of its frequent military drills around the island into an actual attack, a report says. Tung Chih-hsing, the head of the joint combat planning department of Taiwan’s defense ministry, made the announcement during a…

A top Chinese leader will lead a delegation to North Korea this week, both countries announced Tuesday.Zhao Leji, who is chairman of the National People’s Congress and considered the No. 3 official in the ruling Communist Party, will visit North Korea from Thursday to Saturday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.No…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government said Monday it plans to scrap so-called “golden visas” that allow wealthy people from outside the European Union to obtain residency permits on investing more than half a million euros (dollars) in real estate.Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said his minority coalition government would study…

Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of gang members were killed in the shootout that occurred Saturday off the coast of…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the worldwide “Panama Papers” money laundering started Monday in a Panamanian criminal court.Those on trial include the owners of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm that was at the heart of the 2016 massive document leak.LAWYERS DEPICTED IN ‘PANAMA…

A makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a cholera outbreak sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children, local media said Monday.The ferry with an estimated 130 people aboard sank Sunday after it departed the southeastern African nation’s coast for the nearby Island of Mozambique…