Last December, two evangelical pastors from the Church of Christ in Sudan were taken from their churches and thrown into jail. Last month, the Rev. Abdulraheem Kodi and the Rev. Kuwa Shamal Abu Zumam were charged with numerous offenses, including waging war against the state, espionage and undermining Sudan’s constitutional system.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri said he spoke informally with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday and brought up the dialogue the countries have re-established in hopes of resolving the dispute over the Falklands Islands.
Mexican environmental authorities say they have closed seven sawmills operating illegally in the forest reserve that serves as the wintering ground for monarch butterflies that migrate to Mexico from the United States and Canada.
Islamic extremists say they have killed more than 40 troops from a multinational force in northeast Nigeria — the fourth attack in three days following a lull as Nigeria's home-grown insurgency confronts a leadership struggle.
Tropical Storm Lisa was strengthening slightly over the eastern tropical Atlantic on Tuesday and was expected to gain a bit more strength before weakening in a couple of days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
More than 44 people have been killed in Congo in two days of street clashes between security forces and protesters against a delayed presidential election, a senior Human Rights Watch researcher said Tuesday, and several opposition party buildings were burned.
An Italian man has undergone surgery for head injuries after being punched and kicked in the head in a Rome subway car by two men he asked to stop smoking.
Russia was responsible for bombing a United Nations convoy outside Aleppo, Syria Monday killing at least 12 aid workers, a US official told Fox News on Tuesday.
Last December, two evangelical pastors from the Church of Christ in Sudan were taken from their churches and thrown into jail. Last month, the Rev. Abdulraheem Kodi and the Rev. Kuwa Shamal Abu Zumam were charged with numerous offenses, including waging war against the state, espionage and undermining Sudan’s constitutional system.
Libyan authorities said Tuesday they were searching for two Italians and a Canadian abducted at gunpoint near the Algerian border, while another official said three North Koreans kidnapped more than a year ago have been freed from Islamic State group militants.
Ahead of a major European meeting on the refugee crisis convened by Austria, the country's chancellor and foreign minister on Tuesday urged joint EU action on tightening up Europe's external borders and a "Marshall Plan" for countries responsible for most of the migrant influx to the continent to reduce incentives to leave.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg plans to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss measures to avoid accidental confrontations between the alliance and Russian armed forces.
The U.S. general expected to take over the military's nuclear forces had a sobering assessment of North Korea's capabilities, telling Senate lawmakers on Tuesday that the rogue nation "will" build up the capabilities to hit the United States.