Cyprus police say a Syrian woman says she gave birth aboard a boat loaded with 128 other migrants as they made their way from Turkey to the eastern Mediterranean island.
Serbian authorities have extradited a pregnant woman to the Netherlands who is suspected of trying to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihad fighters there.
A hand grenade attack outside the French Embassy in central Athens lightly wounded a policeman early Thursday, police said, days before U.S. President Barack Obama is due to visit the Greek capital.
German lawmakers have approved plans to keep reconnaissance and refueling aircraft at a Turkish base in the campaign against the Islamic State group, despite tensions with Turkey's government.
An Israeli company says it has invented a machine that can instantly grade the clarity of polished diamonds — a development it says will bring new standards to a painstaking process that has long been susceptible to the subjectivity of appraisers.
Dutch prosecutors say they have arrested four people on suspicion of exploiting migrants by putting them to work, for little or no pay, in a laundry where they apparently also lived in a mouse-infested storage area.
Police have arrested and charged two Toronto men with second-degree murder after a Maryland man was beaten to death outside a club in Toronto last weekend.
Iran violated one of the terms of its nuclear deal signed with six world powers by exceeding a limit on its heavy water stockpile, according to a report from United Nations monitors on Wednesday -- the same day the rogue nation demanded the U.S. stick to the deal, no matter what.
Belgium has frozen the assets of 15 people allegedly linked to terrorism, including a Belgian man identified as being a possible organizer of the deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels.
Turkey's state-run news agency says a prosecutor is seeking a life term in prison for author and columnist Asli Erdogan, whom he accuses of membership in an armed terror organization.
South Africa's parliament is debating a motion to remove President Jacob Zuma because of a series of scandals, including possible government corruption linked to the president and his associates.