Africa’s Sahel region has become a hot spot for violent extremism, but the joint force set up in 2014 to combat groups linked to the Islamic State, al-Qaida and others has failed to stop their advances.
Officials in Thailand charged a 16-year-old girl with defaming the monarchy for messages she posted on Facebook two years ago, adding to the debate about the law allowing her arrest.
German authorities seized electronic storage media during a home search of two journalists working for a Turkish newspaper, sparking protest from the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
A Chinese fishing boat carrying 17 people from China, 17 from Indonesia, and five from the Philippines has capsized in the middle of the Indian Ocean northwest of Australia.
Indonesian police investigating the deaths of a Chinese couple found at a Bali hotel may have been a homicide-suicide. Authorities suspect the boyfriend tortured his girlfriend.
Over a hundred schools in Serbia were warned that explosive devices have been allegedly planted around the buildings following two mass shootings that occurred earlier this month.
Financier Sanjay Shah, a British hedge fund trader who orchestrated a $1.7 billion tax fraud, has been ordered to pay that amount to Denmark's tax authority.
The State Department issued warnings for seven countries, five of which are in the Caribbean or South America, over concerns of elevated crime and safety for Americans abroad.
Flooding in northern Italy has killed at least eight people as rain continues to pour. Thousands of others were forced to evacuate due to the heavy rains.
Film producer Alexander Rodnyansky and theater director Ivan Vyrypaev were ordered to be arrested in Russia for "spreading false information" about the Russian army.
The Danish Supreme Court ruled that a newspaper did not violate the copyright of Copenhagen’s The Little Mermaid statue by publishing a cartoon of it as a zombie.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was denied his appeal of a conviction on corruption and influence peddling charges and sentenced to serve time at home.
Retired Green Beret Nicholas Maimer was reportedly killed by Russian mercenary forces in Ukraine this week, and the Wagner Group gloated over his death.