Just hours after a Russian ambassador was gunned down Monday by a Turkish assassin, another high-ranking Russian diplomat was found shot in the head at his Moscow home, The Mirror reported, citing local media.
The Ministry of Antiquities says Egypt's embassy in London has received a limestone relief that had been stolen from Queen Hatshepsut's temple in Luxor.
Belgian authorities said Tuesday that they have charged a person with weapons offenses after seizing a number of arms and computer materials in a raid in suburban Brussels.
Russia, Iran, and Turkey are ready to act as guarantors to a future settlement between the Syrian government and the opposition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, as hundreds more residents left the opposition's last foothold in eastern Aleppo.
The Philippine military says Abu Sayyaf militants are suspected of kidnapping four Filipino fishermen in the latest such attack by the ransom-seeking gunmen despite increased security in the south.
Israeli police say they have arrested a top associate of a prominent billionaire businessman in connection with an international investigation into suspected bribery of an official in Guinea.
The U.S. says it has concluded its campaign against the Islamic State group's affiliate in Libya after the downfall of the group in its only remaining foothold in the chaotic North African country.
He was the first victim in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market — a 37-year-old Polish truck driver who was seemingly stabbed and shot to death in the cabin of his truck.
ISIS claimed responsibility Tuesday for a series of shooting attacks on police and tourists in Jordan on Sunday that killed 10 people, including a woman from Canada.
Gambia's ambassador to the United States says he is being recalled, a week after urging President Yahya Jammeh to respect election results and peacefully hand over power.
A Jordanian military judge has sentenced to death a former mosque prayer leader who gunned down an outspoken writer on the steps of a courthouse earlier this year.
Swiss police said they have found no radical Islamist or far-right motives for a gunman who killed himself after a shooting spree at Zurich mosque Monday that wounded three worshippers.
The dollar's upward march is sending the euro currency to its lowest level in 14 years, easing the financial pressure on traveling Americans but giving European exporters a boost.
The manhunt for perpetrators of the attack on Christmas market in Berlin at killed at least 12 continues as Germany officials said they cannot rule out that suspects involved could still be at large.