India took more than 20 foreign diplomats on a visit to disputed Kashmir on Wednesday, the second such trip since Prime Minister Narendra Modi?s Hindu nationalist government stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status last summer.

One patient jumped out of a hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed to break out by disabling an electronic lock.

The Italian Senate is deciding Wednesday whether to allow former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to be prosecuted ? as he demands to be ? for alleging holding migrants hostage for days aboard a coast guard ship instead of letting them immediately disembark in Sicily last summer.

Concerns have been growing that next week’s Nevada caucuses could offer a repeat of the chaos that ensnared the Iowa vote, with Nevada facing many of the same organizational and technical challenges that crippled Iowa?s process.

A Japanese man with a sweet tooth who believes in smiles has become the world’s oldest male at 112 years and 344 days old, according to Guinness World Records.

The British government says it will give regulators the power to fine social media companies for harmful material on their platforms.

The government of President Emmanuel Macron is putting more of its money where his mouth is, announcing a raft of plans to curb carbon emissions, including a new hybrid-engine armored car for the French leader.

European lawmakers are set to approve free trade and investment deals between the EU and Vietnam that will eliminate almost all tariffs over the next ten years, despite concerns about the human rights situation in the country.

Joseph Vilsmaier , a German filmmaker whose striking portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad brought home the horrors of war to a new generation, has died. He was 81.

Nissan filed a civil suit Wednesday seeking 10 billion yen ($91 million) in damages from the Japanese automaker’s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn.