While scores of Churches across the Middle East are being burned, bombed and razed, at least one nation has overturned draconian laws with the goal of allowing more Christian houses of worship to be rebuilt.
American warplanes eliminated a "significant chemical threat" to Iraqi civilians by bombing a complex of buildings near the northern city of Mosul that Islamic State militants had converted from pharmaceutical manufacturing to chemical weapons production, the three-star general in charge of U.S. air operations in the Middle East said Tuesday.
European Union President Donald Tusk says that the best way to deal with the myriad of crises the EU is facing is for national capitals to broker common solutions instead of giving more powers to centralized EU institutions in Brussels.
Two prominent human rights groups say the planned outcome document for next week's United Nations summit on refugees falls short of what is needed to deal with the massive crisis.
A cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia brought calm across much of Syria on Tuesday as residents of the northern city of Aleppo awaited an expected aid shipment.
Federal police on Tuesday announced the detention of jailed drug lord Hector Beltran Leyva's wife and said their criminal gang was behind a recent wave of killings in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
Greece's foreign ministry and main political parties have strongly condemned the daubing of Nazi symbols on the walls of a Jewish synagogue in northern Greece.
A Swedish lawmaker says she was multitasking during the opening of Parliament. She was listening to the prime minister's speech. And playing "Pokemon Go."
Save the Children says if the 65.3 million people currently displaced around the globe were considered a single country, it would be the world's fastest growing with one of the youngest populations.
The editor of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo says the cartoons that offended a quake-hit Italian town are standard fare for the paper's signature "black humor." Riss, also a cartoonist, said in a radio interview on Tuesday that the weekly isn't concerned by a defamation complaint brought by Amatrice, where most of the 295 killed in the Aug. 24 earthquake lived.
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres suffered a "major stroke" on Tuesday and experienced heavy bleeding in the brain, hospital officials said, as doctors raced to stabilize the 93-year-old Nobel laureate.
Israel says the Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected a proposal to exchange prisoners in return for two Israeli soldiers' remains held since the 2014 Gaza War, which killed over 2,200 Palestinians and 73 Israelis.
A former top Montenegrin politician charged with embezzling millions, will serve 46 months in prison and pay 1.1 million euros ($1.2 million) in a plea bargain with the prosecutors.
Christians driven from their ancestral homelands and persecuted by Islamist terrorists are pressing for an autonomous region of their own if the dust of Middle East violence ever settles.
