Fox World

Iran has signed a preliminary $4.8 billion agreement with the French oil company Total — Tehran's first such deal after the nuclear accord with world powers removed international sanctions that had squeezed its oil-based economy.

Albanian authorities have sent army troops and other personnel to help people evacuated because of floods caused by heavy rain.

A Niger government spokesman says gunmen have attacked a town in the west near the border with Mali.

Pakistani officials say that three out of eight Indian diplomats accused by Islamabad of spying have left the country to return home.

A Cambodian court has found the country's exiled opposition leader guilty of defamation for alleging that a senior government official sought to inflate Prime Minister Hun Sen's online popularity by buying "likes" for his Facebook page.

An official in Congo's restive northeast region says an unexplained grenade explosion has killed two people and injured 31 peacekeepers.

Iran's top diplomat is calling for a political solution to the conflicts in Yemen and Syria, saying that the continuation of violence will only lead to more bloodshed and no one will win the war.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has inaugurated a new migrant reception center which she hopes will prevent migrants from camping in squalid places in the city, and ease tensions in affected neighborhoods.

Hundreds of Chinese business executives are attending an investment forum in Angola, a major supplier of oil to China.

German prosecutors say that authorities have arrested five men on allegations they aided the Islamic State group in Germany, recruiting members and providing financial and logistical help.

Royal Bank of Scotland has set aside 400 million pounds ($497 million) to compensate small and medium-size businesses that say they were mistreated by the lender after the 2008 financial crisis.

Two stuntmen who did not know how to swim drowned after they jumped from a helicopter into a lake in southern India during the filming of a movie, police said Tuesday.

Hungary's prime minister has failed in his attempt to push through constitutional amendments to oppose any future plan by the European Union to resettle asylum seekers among members of the bloc.

Turkey's foreign minister says the United States has promised Ankara that U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces will only be involved in a siege of the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa but would not enter the city itself.

German factory production dropped in September, giving up some of its gains from the previous month for an overall flat performance in the third quarter.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has decided not to attend an Asia-Pacific leaders' meeting in Peru next week as she struggles with political turmoil at home over allegations she allowed a shadowy longtime confidante to manipulate state affairs.

The futuristic city-state of Dubai has signed a deal with Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One to study the potential for building a line linking it to the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi.

Scrambling to defuse a massive scandal, South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday conceded to lawmakers the power to name her new prime minister, a move that could seriously hurt, or even destroy, her ability to govern.

Toyota Motor Corp. says July-September profit sank 36 percent, hammered by the strong yen, which erodes the overseas earnings of Japanese exporters.

Gay rights advocates have welcomed Australia's Senate voting down a government plan to hold a nonbinding public vote on recognizing gay marriage and called on Parliament to legislate for marriage equality soon.