A retired Australian army officer has won a 50-year struggle to gain official recognition for the bravery of 10 soldiers who fought under his command during Australia's most costly battle of the Vietnam War.
Workers on Eurostar trains that operate across the English Channel are planning seven days of strikes over two weekends in August — a peak summer tourist time.
A special tribunal dealing with war crimes committed during Bangladesh's independence war against Pakistan in 1971 has sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life in prison for murder and other crimes.
Morocco's state news agency says a man who attacked a mosque in the Moroccan city of Tetouan has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of an imam.
A city in eastern China city has suspended preliminary work on selecting a site for a nuclear fuel reprocessing facility following days of protests by area residents.
An Afghan official says troops are being deployed to a key southern city in Helmand province amid intense fighting with the Taliban and fears it could fall to the insurgents within days.
Ecuadorean police said Tuesday that robbers shot and seriously wounded a U.S. man as he was playing Pokeman Go in a park in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
Minutes after news broke of a coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, government-held areas in Syria broke out in celebratory gunfire, heralding what they believed was the removal of the leader they blame for fueling their country's five-year civil war.
United Nations officials say member states have reached agreement on a political statement ahead of the first-ever summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants to be held in New York in September.
An Argentine judge is seeking to revive an investigation into former President Cristina Fernandez over the alleged cover-up of Iranian involvement in the 1994 Jewish community center bombing.
About 1,000 Russian opposition supporters have rallied in Moscow to protest a controversial new legislation that offers new sweeping powers to security agencies.
An Algerian appeals court has upheld a two-year prison sentence against London-based journalist Mohamed Tamalt for insulting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on his Facebook page.
