Officials say Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will lead three West African heads of state to Gambia on Wednesday in an effort to persuade its longtime leader to step down.
Ethiopia says it will not release a leading opposition figure detained under the country's state of emergency after meeting with European lawmakers in Belgium.
Once the west’s safe, stable and fiercely secular portal into the Middle East, Turkey’s bloody 2016 showed the perils of its position between two worlds.
Police in Bavaria say a 55-year-old local woman is under investigation for a hoax report that circulated on Facebook of a brutal rape committed by an asylum-seeker.
Haitian officials say 20 people have been killed when an overloaded bus carrying passengers and merchandise collided with a truck in the country's remote northwest.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning Britain anew that its access to the European Union's single market would be limited if it restricts the immigration of EU nationals.
Northern Ireland's power-sharing government has been plunged into crisis as the senior Catholic leader says he's resigning amid deepening tensions with his Protestant colleague.
Israeli police stepped up security measures in Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem on Monday, searching trucks and arresting relatives of the Palestinian truck driver who rammed his vehicle into a crowd of Israeli soldiers at a Jerusalem tourist spot the previous day, killing four soldiers and injuring 17 others.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is renewing a pledge to make a "national effort" to ensure that failed asylum-seekers return home, while stressing the need to show their home countries "respect." Speeding up deportations and voluntary returns of people whose asylum claims are rejected has gained new urgency following the Dec. 19 truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.
Pakistan's military says it has successfully test-fired a submarine-launched cruise missile for the first time, giving it a "credible second strike capability." A statement Monday said the missile was fired from the Indian Ocean and hit its target.
Macedonian conservative leader has been formally granted a mandate to form the country's next coalition government following an early general election last month.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says mainstream politicians must address the insecurity and inequality spawned by globalization or see voters turn to "fringe" voices on the left and right.
The European Commission says conditions for refugees on Greek islands and in other camps where they are housed in tents despite severe cold weather, is "untenable." Heavy snowfall has hit large swaths of Greece, including the eastern Aegean islands where thousands of refugees are stranded.
Bosnian Serbs are celebrating a controversial holiday in defiance of the country's other ethnic groups, its constitutional court and the international community.
Two senior diplomats say that the six world powers that negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran have approved a large shipment of natural uranium to the country as compensation after Tehran exported tons of heavy water.