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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥� Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history.

BERLIN (AP) 鈥� German police are looking for witnesses after burglars broke through the wall of a toy store to steal dozens of Lego sets. Police said Tuesday that the theft took place over the weekend in the western town of Lippstadt.

BERLIN (AP) 鈥� A former member of the Islamic State group was convicted by a German court on Tuesday of genocide and committing a war crime over the death of a 5-year-old girl he had purchased as a slave and then chained up in the hot sun to die.

PARIS (AP) 鈥� A far-right former TV pundit with multiple hate-speech convictions was poised Tuesday to officially enter the race for France's presidency, having already shaken it up with his anti-immigration and anti-Islam invective.

MADRID (AP) 鈥� A fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona killed four members of the same family, including two children ages 1 and 3, on Tuesday morning, a local government spokeswoman said.

TOKYO (AP) 鈥� Japan confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the new omicron coronavirus variant, a visitor who recently arrived from Namibia, an official said.

TOKYO (AP) 鈥� Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, has complained about harsh criticism of his daughter鈥檚 recent marriage and suggested that the imperial family should be allowed to refute false and extreme attacks.

BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow testimony from an additional witness.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were 鈥減artners in crime鈥� in the sexual abuse of teenage girls, a prosecutor said Monday, while Maxwell鈥檚 lawyers said she was being made a scapegoat for a man鈥檚 bad behavior as the British sociali

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥� The Caribbean island of Barbados on Monday prepared to wave goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II as head of state as it cuts ties with its colonial past and becomes a republic for the first time in history.