ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s Constitutional Court on Friday banned President Zoran Milanović from becoming prime minister in case his center-left party manages to garner a majority after this week’s highly contested parliamentary election.The ballot on Wednesday ended inconclusively. The governing center-right Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, won the most…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is in a rush to finish the big legislative and building projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste.This week, legislators from the governing Morena party mistakenly submitted the wrong…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air force claimed Friday it shot down a Russian strategic bomber, but Moscow officials said the plane crashed in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission.Neither claim could be independently verified. Previous Ukrainian claims of shooting down Russian warplanes during…

The U.S. is attempting a new military agreement with Niger, shortly after the country’s junta deemed American presence no longer justified.Niger is a key U.S. military outpost in the Sahel, home to a key airbase and rising threats of violence by Islamic militants.”We are in touch with the transition authorities…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United Nations’ refugee agency said Friday that Cypriot efforts at sea to stop numerous Syrian refugee-laden boats departing Lebanon from reaching the European Union-member island nation mustn’t contravene international human rights laws or put passengers at risk.Cypriot authorities have reportedly dispatched police patrol vessels just…

ROME (AP) — An Italian court on Friday dismissed a long-running case against rescue ship crews of three humanitarian organizations, dropping charges accusing them of collaborating with smugglers as they helped rescue thousands of migrants at sea.The judges in the Sicilian city of Trapani decided not to proceed to trial…

15 British soldiers accused of lying in an inquiry regarding Bloody Sunday will not be charged with perjury, prosecutors announced Friday.Bloody Sunday was one of the deadliest days of the Troubles, a decades-long regional conflict. 13 civilians were killed by members of the British Parachute Regiment in Derry.Victims’ families expressed…

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday, police said. They narrowly escaped the attack but three bystanders were wounded.Separately, an Afghan Taliban religious scholar was killed in an attack in the southwest of Pakistan the previous…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris 2024 organizers.During a lull in heavy rain late Friday, a torchbearer lit a cauldron in front of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple,…

Dominican authorities on Friday ordered the arrest of a Dominican soldier accused of raping a 14-year-old Haitian girl while searching for immigrants in the country illegally near the upscale resort town of Punta Cana.The soldier, identified as Paulino de la Cruz, is one of 15 members of the Dominican Air…