The main suspect in the case of a high-speed train attack thwarted by three Americans last year in northern France has asked to speak to counterterrorism judges in Paris.
Spain's top court has ordered the suspension of the Catalan regional government's new plan for a referendum on the powerful northeastern region's secession from Spain.
Human rights groups are asking Ethiopia's government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of a popular local journalist who has been behind bars since October 2014.
The European Parliament is preparing to hold its third debate on the state of democracy in Poland since a populist party took power last year and moved quickly to solidify its hold on power.
Officials on Sweden's militarily strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland are mulling renting harbor space to a Russian company, even as the government warns that would be against the country's defense and political interests.
A few dozen Israeli lawmakers and their assistants have protested outside the parliament building after female staffers were denied entry for wearing skirts that were deemed too short.
Spanish police say they have arrested more than 200 people of Chinese origin in a crackdown on gangs that ran call centers that swindled 16 million euros ($17 million) from compatriots in China.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has vowed to prevent other nations from intervening in neighboring Yemen, where it has been at war with Iranian-backed Shiite rebels since March 2015.
Pakistani and Indian officials say they will consider resuming direct talks on water sharing after the World Bank halted a process to arbitrate a longstanding dispute over two Indian hydroelectric projects.
A stretch of autobahn in eastern Germany has been shut down to allow experts to dispose of a World War II-era anti-tank mine found only 200 meters (yards) from the busy highway.
Dozens of Greenpeace protesters are blocking the Paris headquarters of EDF, the public electricity company which operates the nuclear power plants in France.
The female would-be suicide bomber arrested last week one day before her planned attack in Indonesia's capital says she took orders from an Indonesian fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.
The pullout of Syrian rebels and civilians from their last holdout in the city of Aleppo was delayed on Wednesday, though it wasn't immediately clear what had caused the delay.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting to discuss the situation in South Sudan, with the world body's top human rights official saying there's still time for action to avoid a "worst-case scenario" in the five-year-old country.
The Norwegian Refugee Council says it is "deeply dismayed" that a second staff member in South Sudan has been ordered to leave the country in less than a week.
Zimbabwe's ruling party says the country's 92-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, is certain to be endorsed as the party's presidential candidate for elections in 2018.