Ukraine put its troops on combat alert Thursday along the country's de-facto borders with Crimea and separatist rebels in the east amid an escalating war of words with Russia over Crimea.
Syrian activists said airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa on Thursday killed at least 20 civilians, as neighboring Turkey called for greater cooperation with Russia against the extremist group.
A British national driving a small truck with 18 migrants inside, five of them children, has been arrested near the northern French port city of Dunkirk.
Serbia's Parliament has approved a new, populist-led government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who has promised to pursue the Balkan country's integration into the European Union while maintaining close ties with Russia.
While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were blatantly violating their own sanitary rules for containing the disease, according to an internal U.N. report that was suppressed for months.
Two Turkish military attaches working in Greece have fled the country for Italy after the failed military coup attempt, Turkey's foreign minister said Thursday, while reports said a naval officer based in the US has also gone missing.
Thursday is designated “National Minority Day” in Pakistan, but U.S. Christians with roots in the Muslim-dominated, Asian nation say it is hardly a cause for celebration.
Disneyland Paris was unaffected after a suspicious package -- which turned out to be a lost package -- was found at a nearby train station on Wednesday.
Pope Francis has had lunch with a group of Syrian refugees who were brought to Italy from the Greek island of Lesbos thanks to the pope's intercession.
The trial of 14 people in Saudi Arabia has begun in connection with a crane collapse in Mecca that killed 111 pilgrims and injured hundreds more days before the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage last year.
A Dutch-based lawyer for a Palestinian human rights organization says she has been the target of a campaign of intimidation she believes is aimed at discouraging her cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
Philippine police say the number of suspected drug dealers killed during President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown has risen to more than 500 in just over a month, sparking protests and plans for a Senate investigation.
Turkey's ambassador to the European Union says Ankara would be willing to modify its anti-terror law if the changes do not impede the fight against terrorism and if Turkish citizens are guaranteed visa-free travel in Europe.