Germany’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spilled over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner.

Irish lawmakers voted Thursday to make veteran politician Micheál Martin prime minister for a second time, leading a coalition government.

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria resumed Thursday after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Damascus.

He’s not showing up in person, but President-elect Donald Trump is still what everyone wants to talk about in Davos. A chorus of leaders from the euro area this week cast aside past criticism in favor of the play-nice hymnal.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world’s biggest military alliance.

Rome’s court of appeals ordered Ossama al-Masri freed over what it said was a procedural error in his arrest. Al-Masri heads the Tripoli branch of a notorious network of government-backed detention centers. Italy has close ties to the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, on whom it relies to patrol its coasts and prevent waves of migrants from leaving. 

President Donald Trump stepped up pressure on Russia to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, and threatened financial penalties on the country if it refuses to conclude fighting swiftly.

The Navy is moving forward with demolition plans for a 130,000-square foot building at Naval Support Activity Naples, as the installation faces a burgeoning need for office and operational space.

Russia’s representative to the International Monetary Fund’s executive board has received permission by Washington to move to the US, a reprieve from sanctions imposed in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.