Brazil's lower house of Congress voted overwhelmingly late Monday to strip the legislative seat of its former speaker amid accusations of corruption and obstruction of justice.
The United States on Tuesday sent two nuclear-capable supersonic bombers streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force meant to cow North Korea after its recent nuclear test and also to settle rattled nerves in the South.
A judge in El Salvador has ordered a former attorney general freed, saying there is not sufficient evidence to detain him on charges that he divulged intercepted telephone conversations while prosecuting a Roman Catholic priest from Spain in 2014.
The United States on Tuesday sent nuclear-capable supersonic bombers streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force meant to cow North Korea after its recent nuclear test and also to settle rattled nerves in the South.
A Cuban dissident says fellow activist Guillermo Farinas has ended a nearly two-month hunger strike in response to an apparently false report about the European Parliament taking up his case.
Iran threatened to shoot down two US Navy surveillance aircraft flying close to Iranian territory in the Persian Gulf over the weekend, the latest in a series of recent provocations between Iran and the US military in the region, three US defense officials with knowledge of the incident told Fox News.
The Chinese and Russian navies launched eight days of war games in the South China Sea on Monday, in a sign of growing cooperation between their armed forces against the backdrop of regional territorial disputes.
The Brazilian government on Monday ratified its participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change, a significant step by Latin America's largest emitter of greenhouse gases that could spur other countries to move forward.
A Spanish opinion poll indicates that another national election wouldn't break the political stalemate that has left the country without a government for more than nine months.
Turkey's state-run news agency says the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed a call for Turkey's government to resume talks with Kurdish militants aimed at ending the long-running conflict that has cost thousands of lives.
A single French Islamic State jihadi has emerged as the link among at least four plots to attack France since June, three people with knowledge of the investigation said.
Estonia has appointed a new foreign minister to replace Marina Kaljurand, who resigned to run as a candidate in the Baltic country's presidential election later this month.
A sharpshooter killed a top ISIS executioner and three other jihadists with a single bullet from nearly a mile away -- just seconds before the fiend was set to burn 12 hostages alive with a flamethrower, according to a new report.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is traveling to Paris for talks with her French counterpart ahead of a key European Union meeting to discuss Britain's decision to leave the bloc.
Over a dozen Hungarians are auctioning off their state awards because journalist and writer Zsolt Bayer, known for his anti-Semitic and racist references, was granted a similar distinction last month.