After a nearly five-year court battle, a world-renowned Turkish pianist has been acquitted of charges that he "denigrated religious beliefs" in messages on his Twitter account.
An abandoned car filled with gas cylinders that was found parked near Paris' Notre Dame cathedral on Saturday may have been left at the landmark as part of a terror attack "test run," officials said Wednesday.
At least one person reportedly died in the suspected chlorine gas attack Tuesday on the Syrian city of Aleppo -- an attack that escalated fears of the military’s willingness to use chemical weapons.
With Austria's limit on asylum seekers nearing, its interior minister threatened Wednesday to take Hungary to the EU's highest court over refusal by Budapest to accept migrants turned back by his country.
The Philippine government on Wednesday released what it says are surveillance pictures of Chinese coast guard ships and barges at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in an apparent diplomatic gambit to publicize its concerns at a regional summit being attended by China's premier and Southeast Asian leaders.
Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four were wounded in a missile attack Tuesday by the Islamic State group in northern Syria-- the first Turkish casualties caused by the militants in Turkey's two-week-old incursion into Syria.
London's mayor said Wednesday that the British capital's status as a nightlife hub is under threat, after one of the city's most famous nightclubs was ordered to close following drug-related incidents.
British officials say a 4 meter-high (13 foot-high) wall will be built to deter migrants trying to reach Britain from the northern French port of Calais.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is strongly criticizing Russia for what he says is Moscow's "clear ambition to erode the principled international order" through coercion and aggression.
A special Polish parliamentary commission has opened an investigation into one of the country's biggest financial scams, operated in 2009-2012, with plans to question state authorities of the time.
Police officials say a terrorism investigation is underway after a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was found with seven gas canisters inside.
China says it will assist Kyrgyzstan in apprehending those behind last week's attack on the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek blamed on members of a group seeking independence for China's far western region of Xinjiang.
Hungarian prosecutors say that the camerawoman who was filmed kicking and trying to trip migrants near the border with Serbia in September 2015 has been indicted for breaching the peace.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says Islamic countries should take "punitive" measures against Saudi Arabia following the deaths of over two thousand pilgrims in a crush of crowds during last year's hajj.