John Leicester, Associated Press

France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Olympics. The city is on heightened alert against potential attacks.

The knife attack critically wounded four children between the ages of 22 months and 3 years old, and also injured two adults.

A man stabbed several very young children, including at least one in a stroller, and also assaulted adults at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday.

Ukraine could face rolling blackouts due to the “colossal” damage done to its power grid by relentless Russian airstrikes.

Serious questions about the explosion remain, including who fired the missile. Russia denied any involvement.

Four European leaders visited Ukraine on Thursday, denouncing the brutality of the Russian invasion amid Kyiv’s fears that Western resolve to help the embattled country could wane as the war grinds on.

Irate French mariners set off flares and entered Jersey’s main harbor in the first major dispute over fishing rights in the wake of the U.K.’s divorce from the European Union.

Officials in Lyon insist that the meatless meals are temporary and that school canteens will again offer meat options when social distancing rules are relaxed.

Leaders, veterans, their families and the grateful from France, Europe and elsewhere were present for the solemn day that began under a radiant sun.

World leaders marked the end of World War I’s slaughter 100 years ago at commemorations that drove home the message “never again” but also exposed the globe’s new political fault lines.

Olympics organizers and swimming's governing body leapt to the defense of China's world record-breaking teen sensation Ye Shiwen, saying suspicions that she doped were "crazy" and motivated by jealousy and the IOC stressing its confidence in the drug-testing program.