The first democratically elected president of the Maldives says from exile in Britain that he has an agreement with the country's former strongman to counter the sitting president, who is increasing his stranglehold on power.
The head of the European Union's executive says that the bloc still needs more united action to move forward in the face of widespread opposition to more centralized powers for the bloc.
Pope Francis has called the French priest who was killed by Islamic State militants while celebrating Mass a martyr and urged all people of faith to denounce killing in the name of God as "satanic." Francis celebrated a morning Mass on Wednesday in memory of the Rev. Jacques Hamel.
Indonesian police say a senior figure from the East Indonesia Mujahideen militant group has been captured and one of the group's members killed in a joint operation with the military.
A shallow, 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Colombia's second-largest city of Medellin on Tuesday night in the country's biggest tremor in over a year.
A shallow, 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Colombia's second-largest city of Medellin on Tuesday night in the country's biggest tremor in over a year.
The four original nations of South America's Mercosur trading bloc announced Tuesday that they are giving Venezuela until Dec. 1 to comply with its commitments when it joined in 2012 that it would comply with all the group's requirements.
China's leaders are promising to rein in aluminum production that is flooding global markets and threatening jobs in the United States and Europe, but its producers have ambitious plans to expand.
A fire is sweeping through a slum on the outskirts of Brazil's biggest city, and authorities say hundreds of people have had to flee as flames consume wooden homes.
Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced a privatization plan aimed at propelling Latin America's biggest economy out of its worst financial crisis in decades.
