For the first time in years, bells rang out on the roof of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, which was feed from the Islamic State's grip last week after an intense fight.
Niger Delta leaders say Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has held inconclusive talks aimed at halting attacks that have slashed the country's oil production.
Human rights activists and politicians in Pakistan have banded together to successfully secure the release of a 9-year-old Christian boy and his mother who were jailed last week and could have faced the death penalty after they were accused of burning the Quran.
Lebanon's two major parliamentary blocs have named Saad Hariri, a former prime minister and a Sunni leader, as their candidate for premier in the government to be formed after a new president was elected.
More than 1,000 Italians have welcomed some 80 migrants to the neighborhood in Milan with a block party featuring a pasta lunch, a brass band and crafts in a gesture aimed at countering rising anti-migrant tensions.
A slum camp built by migrants on France's northern shore, harboring unfathomable hope and humanity mixed with filth and fear, is now a puddled moonscape of dirt and sand dunes.
NATO is holding an emergency exercise drill in Montenegro while Russian troops will participate in a war game in Serbia as the two Balkan neighbors seem to be heading in different directions strategically.
The head of the eurozone's bailout fund says his institution will come up with initial proposals to ease Greece's massive debt burden before the end of the year.
Iraq's special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday and were advancing toward its more urban center despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who hold the city, an Iraqi general said.
A car bomb targeting a military checkpoint on a road leading to Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri exploded Tuesday, killing all nine people in the vehicle, police and witnesses said.