EUROPE-MIGRANTS

CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the Mediterranean, as European Union leaders mulled a new plan to undermine smugglers' finances and their most precious assets — their vessels. 

HOLOCAUST-FBI-DIRECTOR

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary has joined Poland in denouncing remarks by FBI director James Comey about the Holocaust for their "astounding insensitivity and impermissible superficiality." 

VATICAN-US BISHOP

VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop, Robert Finn, who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected priestly child abuser in the first known case of a pope cracking down on a bishop who covered up for a pedophile. 

AUSCHWITZ-TRIAL

LUENEBURG, Germany — A former 93-year-old Auschwitz guard testifies at his trial that he bears a moral share of the blame for atrocities at the camp, but it's up to judges to decide whether he deserves to be convicted as an accessory to murder.

SERBIA-PRESIDENT

BELGRADE, Serbia — An investigation into the sudden plunge of the Serbian president's plane last week shows that it was due to the co-pilot spilling coffee on the instruments panel. 

SPAIN-SCHOOL ATTACK

BARCELONA, Spain — Schools across the northeastern region of Catalonia have held five minutes of silence in memory of a teacher killed in a school attack by a 13-year-old boy armed with a crossbow and a machete. 

NETHERLANDS-EMBASSY FIRE

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police say they have detained a 32-year-old man after fire broke out at the British embassy in The Hague. 

GERMANY-ECONOMY

FRANKFURT, Germany — German investor optimism unexpectedly fell in April after five months of increases due to fears about the global economy.